interracial dating is just WRONG! In Georgia that is!
 

That sounds about right....



http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/...29.htm&sc=1110

Georgians Plan Whites-Only Prom Party
By ELLIOTT MINOR

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - A year after holding their first integrated prom, some students at Taylor County High School have decided to again hold a separate, private party for whites only.

While many whites say they still plan to attend next week's integrated prom, the decision to hold the whites-only prom this Friday saddened senior Gerica McCrary, who helped organize last year's dance.

``I cried,'' said McCrary, who is black. ``The black juniors said, 'Our prom is open to everyone. If you want to come, come.'''

Juniors are in charge of planning the prom each year and last year they decided to have just one dance - the first integrated prom in 31 years in the rural Georgia county 150 miles south of Atlanta.

Until then, parents and students organized separate proms for whites and blacks after school officials stopped sponsoring dances, in part because they wanted to avoid problems arising from interracial dating.

This year, a small number of white juniors decided they wanted a separate prom.

``They influenced the others,'' said McCrary, who plans to major in biology at Columbus State University. ``They didn't vote on anything. They said, 'This is what we're going to do.'''

The school has 439 students, 232 of them black. McCrary and a white friend passed out fliers informing students of all races that they would be welcome at the May 9 prom at nearby Fort Valley State University.

The private prom is Friday night 50 miles away in Columbus.

Erin Posey, a white senior, said the entire junior class joined together in hosting last year's prom, but this year's junior class wasn't as unified.

``I think a lot of seniors were disappointed,'' she said. ``Now we have to choose between two groups of friends.''

Posey plans to attend both proms.

``I had some white friends who were not going to the other (inclusive) prom,'' she said. ``I wanted to have time with everybody. I'll have a lot of (black) friends there, too. A lot more of the seniors are going to be at the mixed one.''

After school integration, separate proms were common in the rural South, but Taylor County was among the last to cling to the practice.

Glenda Latimore, a 1972 graduate, was in the first class to have separate black and white proms. Now her 16-year-old son, Gerard, is preparing for prom night.

As the black junior class president, her son helped organize the open-to-all prom. The class also has a white president.

``I would have liked to see it together this year,'' said Latimore, an outfielder on the school's baseball team. ``My class would have, too. It just didn't happen this year.''

Glenda Latimore said relatives in Philadelphia and New Jersey laugh when they read about Taylor County's prom. She said residents here are ``nice and friendly,'' but they still have a problem with proms.

``It seems like it's something secret,'' she said. ``The white people are afraid to speak up against the separation.

``But I went to a black prom and I had fun,'' she said. ``It didn't kill me, so I tell my son, 'Just go to the prom and have fun. Don't come out hating anyone.'''


05/01/03 14:24

fucking incredible and sad.


http://www.wantongirls.com/watermelon.gif :helpme

upsetting to say the least

i had white people

Unreal.

Unreal? Well it still happens...

i love how freedom crusaders only like freedom when it suits them

Birds of a feather flock together.

Hey, KimmyKim...we were living in Georgia when that happened...neither one of us had ever experienced this before...and, the reaction when this school held its first interracial prom....was extraordinarily surreal.....

I'm not surprised this has happened...the state of georgia is NOT Atlanta.

Mississippi and Alabama I could see... Oklahoma I could see... Georgia really strikes me as funny... I've been all over Georgia and there are some parts of it I really like -- Newnan for instance -- this just amazes me.

omfg this shit still goes on??????????? :(

I find it so hard to believe that shit like this still happens? Are we back to the 50s?

What's even more incredible is that the majority of the school is black, and they still pull this shit.

I remember in Jr. High we had a black class president and a white class president. What I want to know is what about the other races in the world?

The question really is what the blacks need the whites for on their prom? They can't dance or sing and all they can do is drink till unconciousness and screw their prom date in some hotel room. Who needs the assholes anyway.

Well guess I belong to the assholes ;)

Sometimes I'm ashamed of my skin color :(

This prom issue is upsetting but equally as upsetting is the fact that they have both a white AND a black class president. That is stupid as well and it happens every year with no fanfare.


Imagine if we had a white and a black president. :eek7

albany is one country ass city,
You see so much cotten grown over there

its a shame i wonder where the other races are going?

the school administration should all be fired, I mean why aren't adults stepping up and not allowing stuff like this.

I don't give a shit about anyones skin colour....I only see humans beings.

God dam white trash....

"- the first integrated prom in 31 years in the rural Georgia county 150 miles south of Atlanta."

WTF ? In china they are now allowed to preech christianity, The radio is paying in afganistan, put you STILL have Partyes for "white only" ? in the US ? I thought things like that only happend in cheesy Tom Clancy ripoff books, but i guess i was wrong again.

I think its time for WHO / UN to take controll of the political unstability of America