<p>That’s really ****ed up.</p>
<p>“After the last couple were announced, after they watched the white people’s father-daughter dance and then, along with the other bystanders, were ushered by chaperones out the door, Kera and her friends piled into a nearby KFC to eat. Whatever elation they felt for their dressed-up classmates was quickly wearing off.”</p>
<p>That’s messed up.</p>
<p>Segregated prom might work more in the Northeast than in the deep South. Although nobody says it, there is race tension between the suburban white people and lower-class urban black people. In fact, there are more hate crimes in the North than in the South these days.</p>
<p>I reread this. I can’t tell whether its secretly making fun of the blacks or not.</p>
<p>“piled into a nearby KFC to eat”</p>
<p>“slowly worked their way through two buckets of fried chicken”</p>
<p>“It was getting late now. KFC was closing. Another black teenager was mopping the floor nearby”</p>
<p>It’s not making fun of them… it’s pointing out a widely-known fact (BLACKIES LOVE KFC!!)!)!)!)</p>
<p>oh wow.
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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.
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<p>Have you ever even been to the Deep South? You’ve been making a lot of generalizations based on stereotypes of the South. </p>
<p>I’m not trying to defend having a segregated prom, I think it is terrible. But people in the North, some who have never even been below the Mason-Dixon line, act like everyone is in the KKK and there are a bunch of burning crosses everywhere.</p>
<p>Yeah coollege is right. In most cases the large numbers of blacks have created an amazing interracial hybrid culture, and people get along wonderfully.</p>
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<p>Ditto man.</p>
<p>I think people do really underestimate the presence of segregation in the deep south today. the fact is that whites live on one side of town and go to one school, blacks live on another side and go to another school. both are often very impoverished. </p>
<p>there is a county in Georgia which had, according to the latest census, about 15 Black people. segregation is alive and well. perhaps it’s not to keep all the black folks out, but maybe to keep the “riff-raff,” or “troublesome folks” or something out. (“quoted” because i know that it’s a foolish assertion).</p>
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<p>Strongly seconded.</p>
<p>Oh wow this is surprising news, didn’t know many still experience this throughout the schools in the USA ( race seperation of proms).</p>
<p>My husband’s high school class just recently started having integrated reunions a few years ago. Since then, it has just kind of petered out. There have been some “black” reunions where “whites” have not been invited unless married to someone black. Haven’t heard of any white only reunions since the start of the official integrated reunion. The pendulum often swings both ways. </p>
<p>I’m neither white nor black, so I 'm not sure where it would put me. I just attended the integrated reunions with H.</p>
<p>My brother graduated from highschool in that part of Georgia. I remember being surprised at his yearbook which had superlatives segregated between black and white kids. I understand they still do that. Also have two Homecoming queens and other racially segregated awards. When I said something to a school board member about this, some years ago, he shrugged and said even the National Merit association has categories for black superachievers. That they are just an offshoot of the main awards which are colorblind did not seem to mean anything to him.</p>
<p>i am stunned by that. wow</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>Unfortunately, living in GA for the past 20 years, I am not.</p>
<p>Ccollege - Where in that post did I talk about racism? I was simply talking about the average intelligence/intellectual ability of people in the Deep South. It is undeniably lower than the rest of the country.</p>
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<p>Was that really necessary? I mean, after living in both the North and the South I will agree that there are differences, but if you are going to state claims like that at least cite something so that your regional bias appears to be grounded in factual reality.</p>
<p>^Texas isn’t really considered part of the “Deep South” anymore.</p>
<p>It is pretty widely known. There is no need to cite stats.</p>