Georgia Teens Fight for Racially Integrated Prom Because It’s 2013, for Chrissakes

Black and white students at Wilcox County High School in south Georgia aren't allowed to go to the same prom. Instead, students and parents sponsor segregated proms — yep, in 2013 — and kids that break the skin-dress code are barred entry from the caucasian rager. A mixed-race group of friends who hang out all of the time but can't wear corsages and dance to Top 40 together are trying to encourage their peers to participate in a radical social experiment called NOT BEING RACIST.
"We're embarrassed, it's embarrassing, yeah it's kind of embarrassing," Stephanie Sinnot, Mareshia Rucker, Quanesha Wallace, and Keela Bloodworth told WSFA. "We are all friends, that's just kind of not right that we can't go to prom together."

Uh, they're embarrassed? Wilcox County High School officials are the ones who should be beyond embarrassed, since, last we checked, Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation unconstitutional in 1954. But since the proms aren't financed by or hosted at the school (they're sponsored by the students and parents), the administration says there's nothing it can do. Officials have offered a resolution to permit an integrated prom — big of them, right? — but won't stop segregated proms or even take a stance on the issue.

A biracial student was actually turned away by police at the white prom last year. And when the school decided to elect only one pair for homecoming queen and king for the first time this school year — mmhmm, homecoming is segregated, too — and one of the integrated prom-organizing students won, she still wasn't allowed to attend the white homecoming. The king and queen took separate pictures for the school yearbook.

Wow, almost 30 minutes for free association to come up. You're getting slow in your old age Khross.

Just because it's racist doesn't mean it's not a valid exercise of free association. The American Liberal has somehow forgot that freedom has little to do with beer.

The larger point of discussion here isn't your original post, Aizle; rather, it's your astounding inability to accept that free, law-abiding adults in the United States are (amazingly) free to do **** you dislike. Your straw-man thread topic not-withstanding, did you consider the fact that your source makes no mention of what happens when individuals try to cross the color-line at the opposing dance? Probably not. White kids having a white dance for white kids is racist. That's as far as you got.

People do lots of things that baffle me; they do plenty of things that just don't make good sense. Nothing on this planet, however, baffles me more than the American liberal's insistence that we control the right of free association. Stupid people have stupid dances based on stupid perpetuation of bad social structure? That's really not my problem, because I can't tell stupid people not to hang out with stupid people.

A biracial student was actually turned away by police at the white prom last year. And when the school decided to elect only one pair for homecoming queen and king for the first time this school year — mmhmm, homecoming is segregated, too — and one of the integrated prom-organizing students won, she still wasn't allowed to attend the white homecoming.

While I'm sure there are some liberals out there that say we should force these groups to stop. I'm not one of them. However, I am one who thinks we should do everything we can to discourage this behavior, within the context of understanding they completely have the right to do so.

Discourage, how? "Everything we can" is vague and includes the force of law; which is where I have a problem with your politics and position.

The point, Aizle, is that it's not institutionalized racism. In fact, it's privatized for the very specific purpose of avoiding the institutional ban on this kind of segregation.

So you can't rant at "the system" -- that's not what's broken. What's "broken" are there are still people who don't act the way you want them to. People of both colors.

Aizle:

I did read your article. I see plenty of mention of white kids and white parents being racists; plenty of mention of non-whites being oppressed and segregated; and no parity in the reporting or investigation. So, let me know when your article addresses the topic going the other way, too.

I wasn't ranting at anything other than refuting folks claims here that racism is dead. .

Since we're ostensibly discussing a dance, which is presumably for the purpose of romantic coupling, there's an interesting statistic I would like to call attention to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Marriage_for_White_People%3F

Black women are the least likely to date outside their ethnicity. Since we're looking to do "all we can" to promote ethnic diversity and oppose racism, does "all we can" include forcing black women to date and/or marry white and asian men?

It's refuting what many here have claimed which is that racism is a thing of the past.

Woah, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that. If "many here" have claimed this, I assume you can provide an example or two?

Yeah. I'm sure the black proms were created first to keep all those white kids out, not as a tit for tat reaction...

A few people got their knickers in a knot in a very recent thread over the suggestion that racism was still more prevalent south of the mason-dixon line than it was in the north.