I may sound naive... but there are actually still segregated proms???? How common is this, and where?
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There was a huge story in People a few years ago about a segregated prom situation somewhere down south. I can't remember exactly what happened though. I don't know if it was just a story of the segregated proms or a story of how they did a joint prom. But yeah, it does happen.
shareNOT TRUE, wake up. It still exists in the South. I'm from here.
shareJohnson County high school in Wrightsville, Georgia still has a segregated prom each year. Out of curiousity, what prom do the kids who are not African-American nor Caucasian attend?
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My principal, one day, told us that the South doesn't honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr, but celebrates Robert E. Lee, the genereal for the Confederacy during the Civil War, on that same day.
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wow, this is news to me. i didn't know segregated proms still existed....
the mentality still lingers on eh?
My principal, one day, told us that the South doesn't honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr, but celebrates Robert E. Lee, the genereal for the Confederacy during the Civil War, on that same day.
Sounds like your principal is very uneducated and seeks to spread racist gossip. I've lived in the South my whole life and never once have we celebrated Robert E. Lee instead of Martin Luther King, Jr. We even have a park in the middle of town with a bust of him right in the center.
Not precisely true. Martin Luther King Jr. day is a holiday nationwide (I believe Arizona was the last holdout) but where I grew up, in Virginia, it was called Lee-Jackson-King Day. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Dr. King. Rather a slap in the face to what Dr. King stood for, but I wonder if perhaps it was the only way to get it passed as a holiday. Before there was MLK Day, there was no "Lee-Jackson" Day.
sharedefenitely, man. i live in virginia and none of that is new to me, but it sucks all the same. robert e lee and king on the same holiday in the same title is just.. ironic on so many levels. in not such a good way..
sharesravenchild what part of VA do you live in? I'm from Northern VA
shareI heard about this story a few years ago in JET magazine. It's sad to know that people are still living in the mindset that races shouldn't mix, yet socialize with one another. Racism is very prevelant in the South. It's very true. I've been raised to respect people no matter their race or religion and I dont judge people based on race. Some people still find it hard to accept blacks and whites dating. When my boyfriend (who is white) and I go out, people give us nasty stares and you know what I do? I kiss him.
shareYou go girl. I'm white and have friends that are white that date and married black guys and have kids, and I find no problem with it. I have black friends both guys and girls. But I am ashamed to say that I do notice a black guy/girl with a white girl/guy more readily than I do same race couples. I think this is because society has conditioned people growing up that it is not right to mix race. Be it White and Asian, Asian and Latino, Latino and Black, and most especially Black and White, etc. But I've got friends who are Black, white, Asian, Latino, and mixtures of the two and some of them have kids that are mixed. But they are all my friends, yes sometimes we describe each other by race, but then who doesn't? I mean we use hair color, height, weight, and eye color, why can't we use complexion? I had a History teacher that preferred to be referenced as Black rather than African-American because she's never been to Africa and neither have her parents so she wasn't African anything, She is AMERICAN. Sorry I got off on a tangent. But bella bella 19, you go girl, You stand up for what you believe in and be proud of yourself.
shareIs this in the smaller communities?
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Yeah, Im pretty sure its happenning in really small sourthern towns. I live in the Texas and from what I know we don't have segregated proms, at least not in the town I live in, Humble, but Humble is a very large town, its about 15 mins from Houston.
shareHumble? I live in Houston.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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How do you guys define "Segragated Proms"...is it a prom where a bunch of black kids have a dance somewhere else from the white kids? Or people attending the prom with their own race?
P.S. Spade...get a life...
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Seperate proms for black kids and white kids.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where in the world do they do that?
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I had no idea that kind of thing could even go on today. Isn't segregation illegal? I'm interested in seeing this movie to learn more. Does segregation still go on in other ways in the US?
shareI live in Georgia and as far as I know, the proms at our school are integrated...
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What are you talking about get a life. I'm standing up against racism and segregation. And it's not about the blacks having a prom somewhere else. It's the whites that want that. Get that straight.
shareBut I do recall you saying that I was an ingnorant racist on another board...and I'm black myself...I just wanted to clear that up...
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Yeah, I know you're black. I didn't forget that, but that doesn't mean nothing. Blacks are ignorant and prejudice as well.
shareSo can you please stop making judgements about people you don't even know?
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Its sad that such nonsense still exist , well I’d never live in such a situation I’d move, I like diversity. You think it would cost more for school to hold two promos, perhaps this movie will open some eyes.
How pathetic is it that Race is such a big issue for some people, its down right sad. We have come quite a ways but still a long way to go.
Asian and hispanics arent white, how typical for the white man to put them into their caterogy.
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I graduated from high school in 2001. And at my school, in Louiaiana, we didn't have a seperate prom, but we had seperate class elections. A Black and White VP for each class. And 2 White maids and 1 Black maid for each class for homecoming. The really sad part is that the Asian and Latino students are forced into the White catergory. Maybe they changed it since then, but now that we broke away from the parish school board I doubt it.
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Wow, that's even worse than segregated proms.
share"The really sad part is that the Asian and Latino students are forced into the White catergory. "
Yeah very sad. That's always that case, when to comes to race and skin tones.
I hate whenever I look at a thing where you fill out race and it says "White, Non-Hispanic." Why not leave a category for Hispanic? lol iduno
sharewhat high school did you go to? i've never heard about that
i'm also from louisiana and i've never heard anything about segregated proms or even about the separate class elections
I don't know anything about Louisiana proms or class elections but if you check this website out
http://www.lifetimetv.com/movies/originals/foronenight_realstory.html
you'll see that the true story happened in Georgia, unfortunately I'm from Georgia and had my senior prom at the sametime and didn't hear anything about it until now
Wow ... I'm so glad I live in Canada where people actually THINK.
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don't generalize nearly 300,000,000 people and assume all americans think this way. you're talking about one region of the whole country, and a state of mind that most of us do not agree with, including a lot of those in the south.
shareTo the Canadian poster. I personally know of some Canadians who are very much racist. This does not happen all over te States. As for the M.L.K. R.E.Lee thing. It happends that Lee's B-day does fall on the same day as doesthe day we celibrate MLK day. But learn some history just because REL was from the south he wanted in fact against slavery. Lincoln himself owned slaves. So don't assume north is better or less tolorent because history books make i sound that way.
This is about a small region in the U.S. Many people in the U.S. don't agree with their ideas of segregation. Maybe you should start taking your own advice and think next time before you say something.
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wow...viweed seems to be one of those radical americans. don't get me wrong, americans are great...but it's ones like you that make me shake my head. you wonder why nations around the world seem to not like you very much.
here's a shout out to the majority of american's who are not selfish, radical, self-loving hypocrits!!!! woo
I'm ashamed to say I live in the same country as you. It's people like you that make us look like *beep* to other countries. kthnx.
shareYou are ridiculously racist and ignorant. Please get the heck off the planet.
shareVieewd, you're a moron.
shareLMAO you're funny.
And I'm not being sarcastic either.
And I'm from the US but kinda hate that my own country is still like this in several ways.
unfortunately, they do still exist. i am a transplant to georgia and i had heard about things like that still going on while i was finishing high school in the suburbs of chicago. my best frind had come down to atlanta to visit me a year ago right around prom time. we walked around the city so i could show her some of the places that were historic and that were popular and not so popular. and there were two proms from several schools going on at different places. to see this first hand was a shock. i don't think that it is fair. especially for today.
since then, i have done a lot of research on this and have found that some schools try to do the same thing as in the movie, but with no avail. the parents are against it as well as the school board. they don't want to mess with tradition, no matter how assinine and outdated it is.
when my sister's senoir prom came up in 2004, a prom a couple of counties over cancelled their prom because of all of the fighting over it. there are still fights.
please if you read this, teach the next generation to be more open then the generations past. maybe one day, this whole segregation of proms and everything else will be forever dissolved.
thank you
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Viweed, you comment is very, very racist. I'm a black guy from the South and you are very wrong whites down here are just as racist. When it comes to black and whites proms the WHITES want their segregated too. Cause I went to a high school like that. So stop your hateful lies. You act as if whites are perfect. And the things you're saying about blacks are Blatant racism. It's a shame that ALOT of other minorities are racist as well. And we (blacks)have the right to stand up against. Asians just don't stand up like we do. Some try to fit in with Whites, IT'S SIMPLE AS THAT.
Your comment "The South is not as racist as people think. "
Are you serious? They make more of a big deal down here about blacks and whites mixing. Of course people in biggest cities do it too. but the South is far worse.
And also you made a contradiction you said this...
"In the South black people are actually nicer than in the North."
So which one is it? Are we more racist or not? And lastly There's no much thing as MORE racsit. A racist is a racist. Look in the mirror.
Wow, Aren't you the Canadian turned American, now you are an expert on everyone of our states? How old are you, 150? You seem to think you have lived everywhere and been everywhere in our country to make you an expert on how people are from every state of our union. And what's with your Semper Fi line? You a Marine too now?
shareI know its kinda long, I just wanted to state my opinion. No need for negative remarks or feedback.
I live in the South and have lived here from several years. I moved to NC from NY. I read most of the comments on the message board, and many of you (not all) have to realize that you can’t make general comments about one particular region of the country. Many people say the South and mean only a few states like (SC, GA, AL, MS, LA) but as it is outlined in many History books the South includes everything below the Mason Dixon line so that would include everything south of Pennsylvania. Racism exists EVERYWHERE!!! It is as simple as that, racism isn’t necessarily a region of the country (it may have been that way in the past) but the people that live there. If you are racist when you live in Louisiana, you will have the same values and morals when you move to NY or CA. As you all know that when anyone chooses to generalize anything, whether that is a particular race, gender, class or region they are usually WRONG!
Now I will admit that racism still exists in every part of the country, but it is not as prevalent in public as many people may think. It is not fair for one instance (like going to the beach and getting looks) to make a permanent mark on an entire race of people. I went to an all white bar and pool hall, and when me a several other black people walked in everyone, and I mean everyone stopped what they were doing to look at the door. But after this event I did not look down upon, or think differently about white people.
For the most part races will be separate in some aspects of life because different races have different cultures, and different activities that they like to participate it. The only thing that needs to be done is everyone needs to be able to get along with everyone. As long as everyone remembers that you don’t have to like someone to respect them the nation can strive to be better than it has been in previous years.