Posted on 05/06/2003 5:58:32 PM PDT by faithincowboys
From the AP story in Post #23.
A year after holding their first integrated prom, some students at Taylor County High School have decided to again hold a separate, private party for whites only.
While many whites say they still plan to attend next week's integrated prom, the decision to hold the whites-only prom this Friday saddened senior Gerica McCrary, who helped organize last year's dance.
"I cried," said McCrary, who is black. "The black juniors said, 'Our prom is open to everyone. If you want to come, come.'"
So, how did we get from 'private party' to 'whites-only prom'?
Maybe this girl was lashing out because she wasn't invited?
Maybe it was a slow news day and the reporter decided to create a story?
I would like to hear what the other side has to say.
Yes, and incidently, I was born in Albany, which is where the incident in question is occuring. Albany is a strange town, and many people jokingly refer to it as 'Agony' ... I never really lived there (grew up on a farm about 35 miles north of there) and it is not really my favorite town.
May I also ask how old you are?
Yes, you may ask. (43)
Has Georgia changed as much as I think it has?
I am not sure about the extent to which it has changed, but then I never thought Georgia (and the South in general) was as racist as most people think. I have always felt that Boston and New York were way more blatantly racist that the South.
The fact is, here in the south, blacks and whites grew up together in my generation, I suppose for the first generation in this nations history. We like the same food (some call it soul food, but it is just southern cooking to me), we get bit by the same bugs, we bleed when we get cut ... I lived in a rural area, and all my friends when I was young were black because they lived on the same land we did ... we walked up the creeks, found snakes, got stung by bees ... their mama's made the best turnip greens you will ever eat. They had lived there on that land as long as my ancesters had, and the main difference is my family got indoor plumbing in the 30's and they got it in the 50's. My parents never once said anything disparaging about blacks, and there was never anything in my upbringing that caused me to feel that I was superior to blacks. I have never in my life used the "N" word.
I really resent O'Reilly too. As someone who has just gone to GA for trips to Savannah and Atlanta and when I went to college at FSU, i would take day trips to Thomasville and other little towns, but I don't think I stayed long enough to really get a sense of it.
Georgia is a big state. The urban areas are totally different from the rural areas. The mountain areas are different from the coastal plains. South Georgia is very different that North Georgia. It is anything but monolithic in temperment or tone.
I think the people who beat up the South for sport are obnoxious. New York has had its share of racial strife.
I believe the US in general has racial strife because so many people have started making a living off of it. If there was no racial strife, Jesse and Al and Kwesi and a thousand others would be seen for the sorry, manipulative bastards they are. It is in their best interests to continue the victim mentality, and that is causing the problems more than anything else.
Regarding the kids that choose to have a seperate prom -- my feeling is that they are the minority now ... Albany is mostly black, and these kids don't feel that they are doing anything that don't see being done by blacks ... seperating themselves in fashion, in dialect, in culture ... they want their own party, and they should be able to have it. If a group of black kids decided to have a 'black only' party, no one would say a word about it.
What tore it for me is when he had Mansoor Ijaz on during the war and talked over him virtually the whole time. When Mr. Ijaz is on a program, it is for his expertise on the subject of the Middle East. Please let him talk.
On the bright side tonight, he didn't try and flirt with the Governor's spokeswoman. When he starts that schtick, he is REALLY embarrassing.
Indeed. He should take a look at his radio ratings against Rush and remember that.
Can't comment on this specifically, until I do further research, but O'Reilly has grown increasingly abrasive on my nerves. It strikes me, that, ironically, he is turning into the very sort of person -- ahem, Jesse Jackson -- that he claims to despise. A shake-down artist of sorts, making sure the spotlight is always on him.
I agree with a lot of what he says, some of what he says I don't, but, as I said, I find his style increasingly grating on my nerves. He has neither the panache nor the affability of a Rush Limbaugh -- or the staying power.
Then at that point, the principal of the school and the superintendent - and arguably the local government should come out and say something.
Considering that Perdue has more important fish to fry (i.e., coming up with a state budget as opposed to playing pattycake over the damn flag with the legislature -- both the Legislature AND Perdue dropped the ball on that this session), and considering that talking about a private party is about as inane as they come.
It's obvious that O'Reilly has found a personal horse to beat on, and he's going to continue to beat on that horse -- mind you without having as much a realistic conversation with anyone else in Georgia (pro or con) now that he's taken the press secretary to task.
I suppose that Sonny Perdue really ought to take my family to task -- Gosh, darn it, we have a family reunion (all black mind you) every summer, and next year we're going to host it in Atlanta (as we do every fourth year). Maybe I ought to go dig up some white family members so as to satisfy Bill O'Reilly!
Feh...
Perdue's leadership is not predicated by a bully in a television studio in New York.
If you ask the average citizen in Georgia - black or white - that school prom wouldn't even register. When the same issue came up under the Democratic administration of Roy Barnes last year, calls weren't made for Barnes to say anything - and the citizens of Georgia didn't say squat about it.
I guess it's OK for some carpet-bagging talking head with a personal grudge to beat up on him under the guise of "racial harmony." If he wants to attack Perdue and the Legislature on wasting the entire session on the state flag, great! It's warranted! We (the locals who elected them) want to know why Perdue and the state Legislature haven't given us a budget yet. We want to know how much more tax money they're gonna waste(on a special session) in trying to come up with a budget so that the state doesn't have to shut down. We quite frankly don't give a damn whether or not Sonny Perdue opens his mouth one way or another about that prom - just like we didn't care whether or not Roy Barnes did last year!
Which jerks, the ones in Georgia?
Both are legal. But if you still dont see the stupidity or more negatively, the harrasment value of an all white prom, no "blackies" allowed, then there is no way I'm going to convince you. Your parents screwed up.
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