Georgia lets black guys go to a prom with white girls....

dowie · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:35

herp derp... don't be stealing our white women derp herp derp....

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/04/living/integrated-prom-wilcox-county-georgia/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

I'm pretty shocked this is actually a 'new' thing these days.... seemingly up until this year kids that that high school were going to racially segregated proms? :eek:

Trying to organise a school prom which all kids can attend somehow still caused controversy? :rolleyes:

I thought all this **** was supposed to have ended a few decades ago, obviously not the existence of racist numpties but public authorities allowing segregation to carry on - private or not I can't imagine a school in the UK standing back and allowing a black prom and white prom to be organised amongst students... nor deciding against organising a regular prom themselves due to fears of upsetting some of the local community...

One · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:39

But the slave trade ended like 200 years ago so it's all okay, amirite?

malachi · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:42

I thought the medieval days were over.....

LizardKing · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:48

lol, thankfully even in southern America this is pretty rare, but why celebrate a school that has taken up until now to change, surely it would more productive to publicise a list of schools that still maintain these traditions.

FoxEye · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:48

Why are American black chicks so damn heavy?

Culture or genes?

Having said that there's a lots of whales out there regardless of colour...

One · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:49

malachi said:
I thought the medieval days were over.....

Medieval days? You do realise any black man in America that has white hair can remember the days when he had to drink from a different water fountain?

One · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:50

FoxEye said:
Why are American black chicks so damn heavy?

Culture or genes?

Having said that there's a lots of whales out there regardless of colour...

KFC.

itchy · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:51

Disgusting! :mad:

Errr what year are we in again? :rolleyes:

robfosters · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:51

LizardKing said:
lol, thankfully even in southern America this is pretty rare, but why celebrate a school that has taken up until now to change, surely it would more productive to publicise a list of schools that still maintain these traditions.

Agree. If anything this school should not be congratulated, but condemned for upholding these bigoted, perverse and backward traditions for so long.

Tombo · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:53

robfosters said:
Agree. If anything this school should not be congratulated, but condemned for upholding these bigoted, perverse and backward traditions for so long.

Seems you didn't read the article, the school didn't uphold anything, it just hadn't been hosting a prom at all.

robfosters · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:56

Yeah sorry, I kind of skimmed it.

Still shouldn't have taken this long though. The interracial prom should have been instigated far sooner to prevent the ridiculous private segregated proms that were occurring. What a fantastic way to instill bigoted views in young people.

Whitewater · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:56

I wish I understood that country, simultaneously the most advanced and most backward in the world.

Tombo · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:57

robfosters said:
Yeah sorry, I kind of skimmed it.

Still shouldn't have taken this long though. The interracial prom should have been instigated far sooner to prevent the ridiculous private segregated proms that were occurring.

I agree yeah, it's still bad as obviously it's still a very popular opinion in those parts that they should be separated.

robfosters · 4 Apr 2014 at 23:58

Tombo said:
I agree yeah, it's still bad as obviously it's still a very popular opinion in those parts that they should be separated.

To think there are people in those parts that would celebrate if Obama was assassinated.

Beyond contempt.

jsmoke · 5 Apr 2014 at 00:02

Hillbillies.

dowie · 5 Apr 2014 at 00:13

Tombo said:
Seems you didn't read the article, the school didn't uphold anything, it just hadn't been hosting a prom at all.

and thus allowing the racially segregated proms to carry on in its place....

Pretty much every other high school in America has a normal regular prom... this one did too - some of these schools stopped those once they were forced to allow black kids to enroll too and proms were then organised privately along racial lines... Its pretty sad that its taken until 2014 and required a bunch of students to sort it out before the school would put on what plenty of other high schools organise already.

kindai · 5 Apr 2014 at 00:44

One said:
But the slave trade ended like 200 years ago so it's all okay, amirite?

Don't go telling my slaves that, they'll want a pay rise.

Pawnless Endgame · 5 Apr 2014 at 04:22

Prom? Sorry, had to google that. Can we stick to UK English please? Prom is apparently = ball! (unless it's Last Night of the Proms around September time in the UK). The other one is "baby shower", another US term, something I got invited to but couldn't attend due to work commitments. Apparently a baby shower is an event like a wedding where they get wedding gifts but for the child.

chief barker · 5 Apr 2014 at 04:32

In other news Saudi Arabia.......

cheesyboy · 5 Apr 2014 at 07:23

Monserrat said:
Prom? Sorry, had to google that. Can we stick to UK English please? Prom is apparently = ball! (unless it's Last Night of the Proms around September time in the UK). The other one is "baby shower", another US term, something I got invited to but couldn't attend due to work commitments. Apparently a baby shower is an event like a wedding where they get wedding gifts but for the child.

This actually is a prom though. Georgia in America, you see; that's how they roll

Georgia lets black guys go to a prom with white girls....

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