Quote:| There was not anybody that I can remember that was black," she said. "The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It's nothing racial at all." |
Ummmmm???? how can that statement be taken as anything other than statement on race
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| POSTED: 5:33 p.m. EDT, April 23, 2007 |
I had to go back to the top of the page and check the date, I was sure it was going to be 1967 or even 1957 but
2007. I cannot believe that a dance made the newspapers in this day and age simply because the people attending the dance were racially diverse. I would assume that in this day and age that would be so normal as to be completely unremarkable.
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| The "white prom" still went on last week. |
Now this one I would have thought would have made national headlines.
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| "We did everything like a regular prom just because we had already booked it," |
Why on earth would they have booked a seperate prom if they knew that the school was holding a prom? I'm pretty sure that the school would have been quite adamant about advertising their first big prom
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| I've asked, 'Why can't you come?' and they're like, 'My mommy and daddy -- they don't agree with being with the colored people,' which I think is crazy," she said. |
I think we have an answer, Mummy and Daddy organised it, and as it was a formal prom I'm sure their sheets were all beautifully pressed.
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| But this year's upperclassmen -- 213 students total --voted to have just one official prom. |
Congratulations to the school and the senior class for finally crawling into the 21st century (or even the 20th for that matter) They are obviously having to make their own decisions and go against their parents which is very hard for young adults. Their own children will hopefully look at this headline in years to come and wonder why on earth it was newsworthy as well.
I truely had no idea that attitudes like this still existed anywhere, I have never been anywhere in public that there was only 'white' people in my life, I simply cannot imagine what that would be like
