Four students at Wilcox County High School in Rochelle, Georgia, are bucking tradition and organizing the town’s first ever “integrated prom.” Yes, it is 2013, but parents and students in the southern town still organize separate black- and white-only proms. All of this is totally legal, because the school itself does not organize or host any of the dances itself, they are all considered “private dances” and everything involved is left completely in the hands of the parents and students. In fact, this year was the first year the school “abolished racially segregated courts,” for homecoming. The queen was a black student, the king white, and they attended different dances and had separate yearbook pictures taken. The homecoming queen, one of the integrated prom organizers said, “I felt like there had to be a change. Because for me to be a black person and the king to be a white person, I felt like, you know why can’t we come together?”
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I guess “integrated” is a dangerous word in Georgia…I guess the KKK and whatever white folk can’t stand the idea of blacks procreating with whites and decreasing the number of white babies in their county….
So many things wrong with having segregated proms. Here’s just some of many: How do you decide who’s “black” and who’s “white”? It’s not always an obvious thing. There are no doubt mixed race people in the town, so which one do they attend? The only way to enforce the segregation is to have a bouncer at the door deciding who’s white enough or who’s black enough, whatever the hell that means. It’s very hard to find any towns anymore where whites and African Americans are the only people in the town. I can’t believe there are no latinos, no… Read more »