Posted on 05/26/2009 3:39:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Nor do I, as I just posted.
“we are two different species..”
Were you not able to pass 9th grade biology or are you a racist?
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Thank you Bryani. A voice of reason.
We didn’t have a segrgated prom intentionally but there were no blacks in my graduating class so the prom was 100% white. There was about 3 black kids in the whole school but none in my class.
The problem here is the students are sucking off their parents for the Prom money and thus subject to their rules.
Kids, you want your own prom, raise the money and have your own prom, otherwise... you get what you get.
Our school, the students raised their money needed for the prom. These kids can do the same.
I think I remember this coming up last year or the year before and it was the kids who wanted the separate proms.
This year the press is saying the kids want one prom but the parents are standing in the way. Given my distrust of the media, I need more confirmation than a recycled AP report.
Couldn’t agree more!!
Well, isn’t that what I just said, different words, same thing.
I see nothing wrong with that.
Do you gave any data that show that white kids won’t dance to hip hop or rap?
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UCLA holds separate graduations every year for all the various minority students on their campus. This is seen as a celebration of “diversity”. I’m sure this move would win praise at the NYT.
So why is it bad when Proms are segregated in the south?
Why don't they all just take swing dance lessons, hire the Basie band and be done with it?
“UCLA holds separate graduations every year for all the various minority students on their campus. This is seen as a celebration of “diversity”. I’m sure this move would win praise at the NYT.
So why is it bad when Proms are segregated in the south?”
It’s not a bad thing. Some people are just so conditioned to think it’s bad they jump on the bandwagon and declare it a disgrace. Nothing wrong with blacks wanting to be with blacks and whites with whites. We are different, regardless of what anyone says to the contrary.
At the high school level, the ensuing in-school race riots went on for six or seven years. Even the FBI was called in and made an arrest at one high school I know of.
Either the districts were gerrymandered to have severe racial imbalence, or there was conflict.
That made for one heck of an 'education', but not much schooling got done.
Now, this may be an unpopular (not politically correct) thought, but before submitting to the knee jerk urge to call me a racist, consider that there were no real discipline problems in predominantly black or white schools before integration.
Consider that the quality of education received in either was leaps and bounds ahead of what today's often nearly innumerate and illiterate graduates get.
Consider that discipline did not get shunted aside for considerations of NAACP and ACLU Lawsuits, but was stern and swift.
Order was maintained, and the students learned, with academic achievement a clear goal.
If having seperate proms allows both groups to have their own style of music, dancing, and fun without causing hard feelings, all the better for it.
If the students wanted it otherwise, I am sure they would insist on it being so.
Or do we all have to have our right to associate with whom we choose, when we choose subsumed to the collective cultural emulsion.
If this is what the students want, why not?
There are many who will sit in judgement behind their keyboards and decry the idea that students from the same school might not want to associate with others from the same school. Have at. It is still a little bit of a free country.
In my humble opinion, the choice should be up to the students, and it is not the business of the AP, NYT, or even FReepers to judge these students as if they are some cracker KKK types (partly because there is a black prom, too), which seems to be a knee jerk reaction.
So let me ask this. How many of those who think this is so horrible ever went to a school where they (and their culture) was in the minority?
How many of you think you or anyone else has the right to force these students, by virtue of law, lawsuit, or just the 'court of popular opinion' to conform to your ideas of what you think they should live like? Who are you to judge?
You’re right, and I’d wager that a majority of Americans would agree with all or most of what you said.
THAT’s why the article was written, to keep those Americans thinking they’re in the minority.
No. Any stats?
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