Georgians Plan Whites-Only Prom Party

Associated Press ^ | 05-01-03

[anniegetyourgun]

That's just wrong.

[The Old Hoosier]

Somebody please check for me what year it is?

[Fraulein]

What?

[KantianBurke]

its their right to have their own white only prom just as its my right to think of them as being just as stupid as those who want gays only graduations or blacks only college dorms.

[grapeape]

Is Superman up there turning the world backwards again. I told him to stop that. Lois is just moving on. he is going to have to live with it. GOSH...

[Guillermo]

It's called freedom of association.

[Bigg Red]

What a shame. I hope they have a change of heart. This is 2003.

[anniegetyourgun]

I don't think anyone is arguing 'their rights'....only the morality that it reflects. It's wrong.

[headsonpikes]

It's just some cliquey teenagers exercising their God-given right to be stupid.

I wonder where the parents are in all this?

[Onelifetogive]

It's called freedom of association.

I totally agree with "freedom of association." I just happen to think that one is quite an idiot if they are unable to come up with any traits other than skin color to decide who to associate with.

[never4get]

They may have a right not to associate with someone because of their skin color on their own time but they are wrong in what they are doing. I hope they at least take their hoods off at the door when they get to their "whites only" party. It's enough to make you want to vomit.

[geaux]

I don't have as much of a problem with this as I did with a high school in my area that refused to admit racially mixed couples.

[KantianBurke]

never said it was a moral thing to do. Its not. But they do have the freedom of association however badly or immorally they use it.

[Zansman]

Is the date on this 2003 or 1903?

Man, what a whacked out world we live in. The best golfer in the world is a black dude, the best rapper is a white guy and you have these "Gone With The Wind" throwbacks having a "White's Only" prom (and before you flame me, I'm just as disgusted by "black only" type events)!!??

A privately owned club is one thing, this is entirely another. It's stuff like this that kills us when we try to argue against affirmative action and other race-based policies.

All this is because of "inter-racial dating problems"? I can tell you one thing, I'm glad my kid isn't growing up in some "cracker-barrell" community like Albany, GA. These folks are a piece of work.

[staytrue]

Because the school is about 50-50, in this case, it is freedom of association. However, if a majority (80-90%) decides to separate, it's more like a boycott. For example, if 90% was white (or black) and they had a separate prom, barring the other 10 %, it would not be much of a prom for those being boycotted. This school has about 100 people in each class, if it were 90% white and the proms were separate, that would leave about 10 people left to have their own "prom". That is hardly freedom of association. That would be more like blackballing.

[BADROTOFINGER]

As the black junior class president, her son helped organize the open-to-all prom. The class also has a white president.

And...

"It seems like it's something secret," she said. "The white people are afraid to speak up against the separation.

Then you said...

That's just wrong.

But with the school sanctioned level of segregation apparent in the article, not entirely unexpected. The racial tit-for-tat that seems to be the S.O.P. in this school invites this kind of crap..JFK

[kcordell]

Oh great. Sure helps Georgia's backward image. Just what we need.

Kudos to the teens who invited everyone.

[Laura Earl]

I know when I graduated in 1977 in Gadsden AL a whites-only prom was unheard of. We were completely integrated. However, the whites danced with whites and the blacks danced with blacks. Nowadays that has changed, but still having an exclusionary event seems terribly backwards. I suppose the ones who go on to college within the next couple of years will pledge to a frat and continue on their merry exclusionary way. By the way, at the risk of getting hammered by the English grammar Nazis out there, is exclusionary a word? Don't have a dictionary handy.

[MineralMan]

Dumb. I guess they have the right to do this, since it's a private party, but what a stupid idea. Here these kids go to school all year long together, but some of the white kids want to have a dance that excludes half of the school's students because they're a different color.

Archaic, stupid, and ignorant.