<p>Holy crap. This is awful. Here's a link for the story.</p>
<p>This is just plain ridiculous. How common is it in the south? People need to get over themselves and stop acting retarded.</p>
<p>Does anyone's school do this? And if so why/how is it considered acceptable?</p>
<p>I live in East Tennessee and have met people from and traveled to different parts of the South. I really don’t think it’s all that common, partially because most people in the South don’t think that way any more and partially because it’s a scheduling nightmare and different races would go to the different proms anyway, because there’s quite a few interracial couples I know of.</p>
<p>Man that’s surprising</p>
<p>That makes me really upset. I have not heard of any school near here doing it, and I can’t really imagine it ever happening here. I go to an inner city Raleigh school and honestly there’s no racist feelings or anything like that. I suppose things in the Deep South are slightly different, I guess we forget that widespread segregation was only a generation behind us :(</p>
<p>The thing is that they don’t claim to hold racist feelings, well the idea of a segregated prom in itself is racist. I agree, they need to quit using “tradition” as an excuse and get over themselves.</p>
<p>Montgomery County had its schools desegregated in 1971? Almost twenty years after when the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools illegal? And then now this. Is this place lost in time or what?</p>
<p>Well it took the South a century to get rid of Jim Crow, and another 20 years to adhere to the Brown decision, and the Civil Rights and Voting Acts of 1964-1965.</p>
<p>This is really sad.</p>
<p>Yeah the “tradition” argument is pretty much a joke. Killing Native Americans was also a tradition our government followed throughout the 19th century. Doesn’t make it right.</p>
<p>And its funny seeing that one person saying nobody here is racist. Separate proms pretty much proves in itself that that is a highly volatile area when it comes to racial relations.</p>
<p>the part i find stupid is that none of the kids want this. it’s all their racist parents who probably have very little else in relation to the school other than to attend the meeting to keep all the black folks away from their daughters.</p>
<p>Well yeah, but that just shows one of the following.</p>
<p>a. The kids are lame and afraid to stand up to their parents and do what they believe is right.</p>
<p>b. The kids (especially the white ones) are really lying and in fact they are racist.</p>
<p>The kids aren’t able to do otherwise. If you want any help from mom or dad paying for it (they often do) or don’t want them to disown you, you prolly have to abide by this. </p>
<p>yeah, the “tradition” thing is a load of crap</p>
<p>If the kids actually wanted to make a change, they could. Forcing the school to sponsor one would probably be the first step.</p>
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That’s how it keeps going I guess. And the ones who don’t like it probably leave the town altogether, so nothing ever really changes.</p>
<p>For one thing, I am glad I live in New York.</p>
<p>That’s the real problem with the Deep South IMO. The lack of education is pretty bad. Public schools aren’t great. And, anyone who is relatively intelligent usually wants to get out ASAP. It leads to an unstoppable cycle.</p>
<p>i’m from the deep south, and i’ve never even heard of anything like that. that’s really weird, even for the deep south.</p>
<p>I would imagine that actual separation in the Deep South would be fairly uncommon.</p>
<p>yeah, what normally happens is that the blacks and whites live in different places so they go to different schools in the first place.</p>
<p>Even better.</p>
<p>NOT</p>
<p>That’s awful. That’s crazy that people still do things like that.</p>
<p>On a another note, did anyone else find it kind of funny they went to KFC? I mean, wait to reaffirm stereotypes.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s sad. I feel bad for them. I do agree, though, that they should try to do more if they really feel the way they said.</p>