Ga. school plans its first non-segregated prom

[Maine-ah]

ASHBURN, Ga. - Breaking from tradition, high school students in this small town are getting together for this year’s prom.

Prom night at Turner County High has long been an evening of de facto segregation: white students organized their own unofficial prom, while black students did the same.

This year’s group of seniors didn’t want that legacy. When the four senior class officers — two whites and two blacks — met with Principal Chad Stone at the start of the school year, they had more on their minds than changes to the school’s dress code.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18034102/?GT1=9246


All I can say is,
:wtf: took them so long?

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Welcome to the 21st Century!

Hard to believe such a relic of segregation survived this long. Good on those students who started the ball rolling!

[Maine-ah]

2. I can't beleive there are some who are boycotting it.

:wtf:

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. FIRST????? Non-Segregated prom???? OMG, it's 2007 you DUMB FUCKS!

This country is so damn scewed up.:(

[SarahB]

4. Welcome to 1970?

Good for them for finally ending it at least.

[Selatius]

5. It's the Deep South. What did you expect?

As a Mississippian, I can't say I'm surprised about reading of segregated school functions such as these.

With prom night about two weeks away, only half of the 160 upper-class students have bought tickets. And there’s talk around the school that some white students might throw a competing party at a nearby lake.

“Everyone is saying they’re not going to the school prom,” said Steven Tuller, a 17-year-old white junior who doesn’t plan to attend either event because he wants to wait until he’s a senior. “They’re saying it’s tradition.”

Some traditions should be forgotten.

[Clark2008]

6. Instead of making fun of them for being johnny-come-latelies,

shouldn't we be praising them for their willingness to break tradition and end racism?

:shrug:

[Maine-ah]

7. huh, didn't know I was making fun of them.....

but thanks for putting that "tone" in to my post, I appreciate it, really I do.

all I said was wtf took them so long? Someone actually gave me an aswer to that up-thread. I didn't realize that there was still major, and this is really major segregation still going on like this, in 2007.