[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by SilverTurtle




What should have happened was a meeting with the teachers and administrators that oversee prom arrangements and a sampling of the students- an equal number of every ethnicity represented. The students could have all said what they wanted, representing of course "their" side of things, and surely the music played could have been varied, the kids could have decided on a theme together, etc. What kind of leadership exists at this school anyway?

And what happens if it's segregated between black and white, but I'm Asian or Hispanic or Phillipino....? Or what if, as unusual as it still is in many places, my date is black but I'm white?

Just because something happens all of the time doesn't mean it's okay. If we're not striving to improve our society, then what are we doing?

I don't know that we have enough details on this case to make these judgements.

I am positive that the administration tried SOMEHOW to resolve this- no sane people would let this happen without fighting. I am surprised that the minority kids got the funds to make their seperate prom too, but we don't know where they got it. Maybe they raised it themselves, maybe it came from parents, who knows? As a matter of fact, if this was a public school then the school could not legally give them ANY funds to do something like this if it was in fact de jure segregation.

I am sure that it was not a strictly racial thing- there were just two proms and it just so happened that at one of the proms most of the kids were white and at the other most were black. Oops!