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AlphaCentauri
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:02 AM Original message |
Segregated high school proms divide Georgia's students |
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Kerrytravelers
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
1. My question is this: |
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get the red out
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Good question! |
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Wapsie B
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. Two questions: This still goes on in this country? |
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jaxx
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Here's one from the NYT |
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Wapsie B
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Thanks. I certainly see that I can cross Mt. Vernon, Ga. off my must places to see list. |
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PerpetuallyDazed
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. From the article: |
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izquierdista
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. It's the South |
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No Elephants
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. The two proms took place in a "community center," which I assume is |
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WriteDown
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. The school does not appear to be paying for the "white" |
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jmowreader
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Sun Jun-21-09 12:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. It doesn't appear the school paid for the "black" prom either |
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Flora
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Goodness... |
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izquierdista
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. If you'd travel outside the South, you would know |
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WriteDown
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Sun Jun-21-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. At least its not as bad as Ohio.... |
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bitchkitty
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Sun Jun-21-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. The reason it gets that reputation |
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Obamanaut
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Sun Jun-21-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. Yes, it still goes on. Have you heard of Black Miss America, etc? nt |
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jaxx
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
3. Jim Crow is alive and well in some places. |
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get the red out
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
4. This is the weirdest thing |
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Mz Pip
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. I'm pretty sure I know how |
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fortyfeetunder
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Sun Jun-21-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
33. Book recommendation -- |
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JayMusgrove
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
10. What nonsense! I wonder how many years |
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radhika
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
11. The 'white prom' went first in both stories |
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LuckyLib
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:43 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Yup. And there is no doubt which is the "real" prom. |
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Obamanaut
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Sun Jun-21-09 04:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
34. The reason the white prom went first in both linked articles is because |
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JayMusgrove
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Sun Jun-21-09 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
13. $200 a single ticket, What kind of prom costs that? |
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Cirque du So-What
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. $200 is the price of exclusion |
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Dappleganger
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. You bet it is! |
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No Elephants
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
18. I hope some enterprising lawyer gets hold of one of these students and brings a Section 1983 |
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hedgehog
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
19. My daughter bought her dress used from a group that donated the |
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No Elephants
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
21. Gotta "love" theTelegraph for its |
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Frisbee
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. "It don't seem like a big deal around here..." |
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Frisbee
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Sun Jun-21-09 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
25. Color me stunned.... |
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WriteDown
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Sun Jun-21-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Or white northerners... |
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LWolf
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Sun Jun-21-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
30. I'm truly shocked to know that something like this still occurs. |
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Obamanaut
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Sun Jun-21-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
31. The Telegraph must have had some space to fill, this is an old story. |
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