By Jessica • 17 years ago

Georgia school has its first integrated prom. For real.


Turner County High School in Georgia had their first-ever integrated prom. This year. Lovely.

Adkinson’s sister, Mindy Bryan, attended a segregated prom in 2001.
“There was not anybody that I can remember that was black,” she said. “The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It’s nothing racial at all.”

Obviously.
Apparently this bizarre segregated prom thing has gone on for so long because the school never officially sponsored the prom–the parents did. Somehow, that doesn’t really make me feel better.
This, though, has to be my favorite part of the whole debacle: some folks just weren’t comfortable with the new school prom, so the “white prom” still went on.

Nichole Royal, 18, said black students could have gone to the prom, but didn’t.
“I guess they feel like they’re not welcome,” she said.

Hmm. Wonder why.

Nichols said while her parents were in support of the integrated prom, some of her friends weren’t allowed to go.
“I’ve asked, ‘Why can’t you come?’ and they’re like, ‘My mommy and daddy — they don’t agree with being with the colored people,’ which I think is crazy,” she said.

Seriously?
Via Nerve.

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