GA High Schoolers Plan a Whites Only Prom

[bucutie02]

I cannot believe that!! The saddest thing is that parents were the ones that actually helped plan this!!! I would not want to attend!!!

I have never been to Georgia or anywhere close by, but is that area of our country still racist?

I am glad I live in Texas, where everyone is friendly and nondisciminatory

[sherbertlemons]

Wow. That's just really sad. When I first saw the artice, a I wondered if it was from a tabloid or something. i couldn't be that lucky, though.

[wishuponastar]

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I don't get it. It's 2003.

[Steeltrap]

This story appeared on another listserv I belong to, and a poster said that a separate "white prom" took place at her old high school,which is in south Georgia, about 50 miles from where this story's taking place. Apparently, this "white prom" has been taking place since the early 1990s. The original prom was canceled, she said, when the HS was integrated years ago.

She said it was not school-sanctioned, was held at a country club, invitation-only and people who went there had to pay some sort of "initiation fee."

[LeslieAGD]

Originally posted by texas*princess
I think what also bothers me is that the article wrote that the parents helped organize the separate prom. What kind of message does that send?

Ugh! No wonder kids today are so mess up!

[AlphaGamDiva]

Origianlly posted by bucutie02
I have never been to Georgia or anywhere close by, but is that area of our country still racist? I am glad I live in Texas, where everyone is friendly and nondisciminatory

racism is not something that is strictly confined in southern states. yes, the south is known for the KKK, and slavery, and a lot of bad times.....but i don't think that it is only the south that has had these problems. i don't think you meant to offend with your comment, bucutie, so please don't read this like i am fussing at you....i'm not meaning to. my point here is that racism is something that is taught and learned......just plain ignorance passed down through the years. i lived in southern AL for 14 years....and yeah, i saw my share of racism, but i never saw someone hiding behind a sheet, nor did my high school have a segregated prom. i think there are lil pockets of snobby, racist, IGNORANT ppl everywhere....not just in the south. racism is deeper than white vs black.....it's black vs white, white vs non-white, non-white vs. black.......the more people surround themselves with diversity, the more they will learn that b/c someone is different, it doesn't make them better/worse....just makes them different.

the south gets a bad deal......we get stereotyped like a lot of other americans just b/c a small group makes a bigger impression than the whole..........but we're not all uncle cletus and aunt bobbi jo.....we're not all living in trailors, toothless, barefoot and pregnant............and we're not all racist. there is definitely racism in the south......but there's racism everywhere....and probably even in TX. (TX folk, don't flame....just generalizing....got nuthin but love for yas)
again, not meaning to rant or fuss b/c i honestly don't think you meant to offend........just wanted to go about the long way in answering your question: no, that entire area is not racist, but yes, you will find racism in random places. everywhere.

/southern pride rant
*hopefully i didn't offend, either......don't want to hijack this into a southern/racism thread....jus'sayin

[bucutie02]

Originally posted by AlphaGamDiva
i don't think you meant to offend with your comment, bucutie, so please don't read this like i am fussing at you....i'm not meaning to.

I definitely did not post that aiming to offend anyone, and I am sorry if I did come across that way.

AlphaGamDiva- no offense taken

[DeltAlum]

A sad commentary.

[kappaloo]

That saddens me extremely. This shows that integration was never really achieved.

If I were there, I would refuse to go to this "white" party. Who knows if I would even be invited? After all, Italians aren't considered white by some.

[carnation]

Originally posted by KDatUTC
That's sad....

Damn, I guess I wouldn't be invited to either of them....

My kids either...

[Rudey]

Prom is about powder blue tuxedos and guilting your girlfriend into sex.

-Rudey
--Leave the race issue for when you get to college and become the intellectual problem solvers that you think you'll be.

[AOIIalum]

Did I miss something, or isn't this 2003?

Christin

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by bucutie02
I cannot believe that!! The saddest thing is that parents were the ones that actually helped plan this!!! I would not want to attend!!!

I have never been to Georgia or anywhere close by, but is that area of our country still racist?

I am glad I live in Texas, where everyone is friendly and nondisciminatory

At least in the big cities like Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and El Paso, Texas is pretty egalitarian... on the other hand, if you go down to Deep East Texas or the Piney Woods, there still remain some entrenched pockets of unrepentant redneckia, where they still practice the time-honored saying, "(N-word), don't let the sun set on you in Bumf*ckia, Texas." even though the signs disappeared long ago.

Even up to the 60s the town of Greenville, Texas used to have a sign in its downtown area that read "THE BLACKEST LAND - THE WHITEST PEOPLE" Blackest land bacause that area of North and North Central Texas is the blackland prairie, with very rich topsoil.

Recently, the City of Dallas had a conniption fit over the accidental uncovering of a WHITES ONLY sign over a water fountain in some old building. Some want it preserved to remind people of an ugly period in our nation's history, others want the sign completely eradicated.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by kappaloo
If I were there, I would refuse to go to this "white" party. Who knows if I would even be invited? After all, Italians aren't considered white by some.

Depends on which side of the 'boot' your Italian heritage is from. Don't forget the Northern Italians (fair hair and skin) vs. Southern Italians (dark hair and olive skin).

Me, I'm a mix of Noo Yawk 'Black Irish' (Irish with dark hair and a little less fair complected; they're descended from Spaniards or Moors who took up residence in Ireland centuries ago), Spanish (mestizos from Venezuela) and if you scratch even further, a little Hindu (from my maternal grandfather, who was descended from Hindus that immigrated from India via Trinidad to Venezuela). I don't burn... I can get really tanned in the summertime and wind up looking like your average-run-of-the-mill Hindu or Arab until I let loose a stream of Noo Yawk speak.