What the hell, Georgia.

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thread starter secure May 23 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

link About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on. It is no different in south-central Georgia�s Montgomery County, made up of a few small towns set between fields of wire grass and sweet onion. The music is turned up. Homework languishes. The future looms large. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 � a balmy Friday evening � the white students held their senior prom. And the following night � a balmy Saturday � the black students had theirs. Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County � where about two-thirds of the population is white � almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971. Such proms are, by many accounts, longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South, though in recent years a number of communities have successfully pushed for change. When the actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for last year�s first-of-its-kind integrated prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi, his home state, the idea was quickly embraced by students � and rejected by a group of white parents, who held a competing �private� prom. It's 2009. What the hell is wrong with you.

Vysper May 23 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Maybe they wanted to. I mean, it's hard to gauge the situation. Maybe there wasn't much mixing in the school, and both groups wanted different things, so they decided to hold them seperately.

MrTofu 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Why do they segregate the students for prom...interracial should be embraced

xxTwirl 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Where does the Asians go? o_O;

Gunnar 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

xxTwirl said: "Where does the Asians go? o_O;" Asains dont live in the rural south. Prolly only 1 family at most,

JohnPwnsJ00 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Gunnar said: " Asains dont live in the rural south. Prolly only 1 family at most," Then where does that one family go?

secure 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

JohnPwnsJ00 said: " Then where does that one family go?" If you read the article it's the white parents that want it to stay segregated. The black prom welcomes any race and is happy to have them, and the black parents have absolutely no problem with it.

JohnPwnsJ00 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

secure said: " If you read the article it's the white parents that want it to stay segregated. The black prom welcomes any race and is happy to have them, and the black parents have absolutely no problem with it." So, the asians can go to two? Or are the white parents racist to asians too? Are they white supremacists? Sorry, i'm not on the reading-alert side.

secure 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I don't think there was a single asian in that graduating class, hilariously

YangGuang 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

JohnPwnsJ00 said: " So, the asians can go to two? Or are the white parents racist to asians too? Are they white supremacists? Sorry, i'm not on the reading-alert side." I doubt that city (or hick town) has Asians. Some white supremacists concede that Asians are smarter but are not necessarily "better," while others refuse to acknowledge the fact. In the few white supremacy forums I've sneaked through for fun and learning, no one has generally cared about Asians that much.

GunDelHel May 23 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

That's Georgia for you. Even us Alabamians make fun of their segregation. Edit: And before anybody says anything--My town has TONS of Asians and Mexicans living here. We have a college that loves to be involved with things world-wide. <.<;;

JohnPwnsJ00 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

YangGuang said: " I doubt that city (or hick town) has Asians. Some white supremacists concede that Asians are smarter but are not necessarily "better," while others refuse to acknowledge the fact. In the few white supremacy forums I've sneaked through for fun and learning, no one has generally cared about Asians that much." So, they would just go to the black prom? I see. Wow, i got a question. Why are some white people such white supremacists?

YangGuang 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

GunDelHel said: "That's Georgia for you. Even us Alabamians make fun of their segregation." VA. Southerners represent D: Confederate museums everywhere. Too bad VA is turning blue and Northern (or good actually)

NyteProwleR 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Segregated proms...people are really stupid. What kind of an idiot do you have to be to support this =/

JohnPwnsJ00 05/23/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

NyteProwleR said: "Segregated proms...people are really stupid. What kind of an idiot do you have to be to support this =/" They didn't support it. The parents who were funding it supported it.