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| Topic: Racially-Integrated Prom a First for Georgia Students | |
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Here is an excerpt from a blog story published by CNN:
As Quanesha Wallace remembers, it was around this time last year when the idea first came up at Wilcox County High School. It was nothing big, just chatter about prom, school, what comes next, what they'd change. If things were different, someone said, we'd all go to the same prom. For as long as anyone could remember, students in their South Georgia community went to separate proms, and homecoming dances, too. White students from Wilcox County attend one. Black students, another. They’re private events organized by parents and students, not the school district. Schools have long been desegregated, but in Wilcox County, the dances never changed. The friends all agreed they'd go to an integrated prom, Quanesha said, and when they asked, others said, "Yeah, I'd go, too." "We are all friends," Quanesha's friend, Stephanie Sinnot, told CNN affiliate WGXA-TV in Macon, Georgia. "That's just kind of not right that we can't go to prom together." So now it's April, and prom is coming up, and these black and white friends, longtime pals who go to classes together and play sports together and hang out together, are going to prom together, too. For the first time, students are organizing an integrated dance, one that welcomes any of Wilcox County High's 400 students. What took these Georgia residents so long to do the right thing? |
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Perhaps just following tradition...doing things because 'they've always done it this way'.
Still...I think that's pretty freaking amazing...."shaking head in disbelief". 
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At least the students started it!
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At least the students started it! Gubament forced integration. Most of neither side wanted it. I was in 7th grade when integration saw it's first year. Where I was going to Jr High , it meant having to separate from friends, abandon the schools they/we liked and be subjected to hostile environments. If Gubament had not forced it, I believe, it would have happened with a lot less stress on all concerned. BTW, I was in Southern Ms. Biloxi/Gulfport area. |
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I had to look up Wilcox County which is in South Central GA. I've lived in GA most of my life when I was really young and then moved back when I was in my 20's. It must have just been something in that particular area. Granted I have always lived and worked in the Atlanta area, but I've never even heard of anything like that. Our worst county was Forsyth and even they changed 25 years ago.
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I like the idea of this, to get with the times in effect, but am I the only one that read this and kinda cringed?
"When students approached him about hosting an integrated prom, Smith wrote, he and the county’s board of education “not only applauded their idea, but we also passed a resolution advocating that all activities involving our students be inclusive and nondiscriminatory." Why am I sensing that policy could create some bass ackward situations just to be "nondiscriminatory"? |
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Here is an excerpt from a blog story published by CNN: As Quanesha Wallace remembers, it was around this time last year when the idea first came up at Wilcox County High School. It was nothing big, just chatter about prom, school, what comes next, what they'd change. If things were different, someone said, we'd all go to the same prom. For as long as anyone could remember, students in their South Georgia community went to separate proms, and homecoming dances, too. White students from Wilcox County attend one. Black students, another. They’re private events organized by parents and students, not the school district. Schools have long been desegregated, but in Wilcox County, the dances never changed. The friends all agreed they'd go to an integrated prom, Quanesha said, and when they asked, others said, "Yeah, I'd go, too." "We are all friends," Quanesha's friend, Stephanie Sinnot, told CNN affiliate WGXA-TV in Macon, Georgia. "That's just kind of not right that we can't go to prom together." So now it's April, and prom is coming up, and these black and white friends, longtime pals who go to classes together and play sports together and hang out together, are going to prom together, too. For the first time, students are organizing an integrated dance, one that welcomes any of Wilcox County High's 400 students. What took these Georgia residents so long to do the right thing? Seems there is still Hope for Humanity! |
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ANOTHER government scheme that turns out to be as bad an idea as the rest of em. People wonder why their children are racist. If a child isn't properly accepting of other skin colours as of right now, then how are they expected to accept them once they get a job? Another namby-pamby influence that will only downgrade society. Oh, way to go, silly government.
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this story wasnt about government,,,
'They’re private events organized by parents and students' it was about private citizens,,, |
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