[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.

[AnnaZ]

from: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

 

Main Entry: ex·clu·sion
Pronunciation: iks-'klü-zh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin exclusion-, exclusio, from excludere
Date: 15th century
1 : the act or an instance of excluding
2 : the state of being excluded
- ex·clu·sion·ary /-zh&-"ner-E/ adjective

 

So, yes... it's a word.