Pursuing Proper Prom Protocol ?

[Kezardin]

Howdy,

Maybe I'm missing something - thought things like racially separated proms were a thing of the past

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/ma...om-t.html?_r=2

[VulcanRider]

Bigots are kinda like roaches -- they're everywhere and we'll never get rid of them completely...

[Firestormalpha]

Sad, but true. And legally they are allowed to hold on to those ideas, within certain limitations. (i.e. lynching, cross burnings etc. = no-no's)

Also if you've ever lived in or traveled through the south, you'd find neighborhoods with no mixed nationality.

When my youth choir went on tour we stayed with a church that considered itself diverse because two black people attended their services. Our choir baffled them, having been made up of students with Latin, Afro, Asian, and Caucasian backgrounds.

[Chewbacca]

In better news from Mississippi:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/22/mis...iref=polticker

PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (CNN) -- James Young still remembers the Ku Klux Klan tormenting his neighborhood. He can still see his father holding a gun on the living room couch ready to shoot anyone who threatened his family. Nothing about Young's childhood ever made him think he could be the mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, the town best known for the killings of three civil rights workers in 1964. That's the way it was for black kids growing up in this crucible of racial hostility -- big dreams were often squelched. Sitting on a sprawling Southern front porch this week, Young broke down in tears about what it means to be elected the town's first black mayor. "When you've been treated the way we've been treated," he told CNN, choking up and then pausing to wipe the tears from his face. For a moment, he couldn't speak. He then regrouped, "That's why it's so overwhelming to be a part of this history." This week, the 53-year-old Young was elected the mayor of Philadelphia, a town of about 8,000 in the east-central part of the state. Despite a 55 percent white majority, Young defeated Rayburn Waddell, a white, three-term incumbent, by the slim margin of 46 votes