Honestly, I can relate to the students in the "prom" article. I attended high school in Wichita, KS (84% white, 9% black, 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian, and 1% Amer. Indian) where the population at my school was roughly 1,800 students (with about 120 african americans and a sprinkle of Hispanics and Asians) so the music issue is one of importance. We did not have a "majority rule" vote on music because obvisouly that wasn't fair. The solution???? We hired a DJ that played Top 40 music, which resulted in different types of music. Everyone had songs that they could dance to or sit out until "your song" came on. Although I am just talking about music, I did think that my school's admin did the right thing by taking this approach.
However, when it came down to class elections, that was a different story. I remember my senior year, we had the Who's Who elections. You know, things like best hair, most popular couple, best dancer, etc. And for the four years that I was there no African American won anything, except for BEST DANCER
HMMM.............
PS. No other minority would win anything either