Californians disappointed in the recent decision to keep Prop 8 instated can at least take some comfort in knowing that they aren’t living in Georgia, a state which features a type of blatant discrimination so irrational, we could swear we were living in the 1950’s.
A local high school in South Central Georgia recently kept one of it’s oldest traditions alive by holding two separate end-of-the-year dances for it’s students, dubbed (and no, we’re not joking) “The white folks prom, and the black folks prom.” The segregation and discrimination continued as Caucasian students were allowed to attend the African American dance, but under no circumstances was a black student allowed in the white prom. A group of black students attempted to attend the other dance to see their good friend participate in the senior walk, but were quickly ushered outside by white chaperones after the father-daughter dance was over.
While there are reportedly many bi-racial friendships at the school, plans to eradicate the double proms and combine them in the future are nowhere in sight. Attempts have been made by the students to integrate, but school officials and white parents remain firm in their twisted tradition. One student who wasn’t allowed to attend the white prom was quoted as saying, “You’re 18 years old! You’re old enough to smoke, drive, do whatever else you want to. Why aren’t you able to step up and say, I want to have my senior prom with the people I’m graduating with?”
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