Reason for hope -- Georgia school holds first integrated prom.

[Cyrano]

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/georgia-school-holds-first-integrated/20070423102809990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

It's been 144 years since Abraham Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation and 43 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, no one needs to be told that racial discrimination still exists. And it may be another hundred years before this disease finally dies a long-overdue death.

But a Georgia school is now holding it's first integrated prom. It was the students themselves who wanted it. It is one more step away from ignorance, irrational fear and hatred. It's a move toward enlightenment. It's reason for hope.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Meh.

The white kids held their own party instead of going to the prom.

[Cyrano]

2. Try reading it again.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. OK.

Only 2/3 of the upperclassmen bought tickets, few white people attended the prom, instead they attended their own segregated party earlier, which was defended as "tradition."

Doesn't sound much like a reason for hope. More like shame that this is still going on.

[Ian David]

4. People on my ignore list tend not to read carefully, do they? n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. You've got a 150 people on your ignore list.

Ironic that you'd accuse other people of not reading things.

[bluestateguy]

5. I don't think this is anything to celebrate

It's 2007. This should have happened in 1967, or before. The fact that it is happening now should yield this school and the community no credit whatsoever. They are long overdue at merely doing what is now expected of a civilized community.

And, as you said, a lot of the white students--no doubt with parental support--simply opted out of the official school integrated prom and held their own racially exclusive festivities. That is their right, just as much as it's my right to criticize them for it.

If you think this is bad, you should see how bad the problem is in college fraternities and sororities, especially in the South.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Sadly, I agree with you.

Yes, it is a good thing this has finally come to be, but, as you said, it is 2007. I find that this is even a story in this day and age is just sad. I have hard time giving "kudos" for something that the majority, vast majority, of the country has already accomplished.

[Parche]

8. Georgia

And next week Women get to vote in Georgia!!!!! :sarcasm:


At least it finally happened..............did it have to take 40years?

[Cyrano]

9. I didn't say it was a perfect world. I said it was "... one more step..."

It seems that most of the posts here don't see this as a positive thing. Sorry to disagree, but I prefer that "one more step" to the alternative of remaining in the dark ages.

[Parche]

10. Step

Oh I see this as a positive step, but why did it have to take 40years to be so!!!!