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so dave do you have kids? Where do you live? Prove your integration bona fides?

No kids. My next door neighbors are Asian. We have a few black neighbors up the street. Integrated school district. In fact I live in St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis buses kids to my suburban school under a desegregation judgment against the state.

And when the good ole boys elect Democrats (like they have in Georgia up until Perdue) and the private, segregated proms take place,why is there no national media horror? Are you telling me that all the kids and their parents that went to the all-white prom voted Republican? There are lots of Blue Dogs who are not "racially progressive".

What does this have to do with politics. If Perdue had shown just a little guts he wouldnt even be taking any heat for this. Its not a Republican issue. Its not a Democrat issue. I'm sorry that you see everything in Right and Left, rather than right and wrong. I presume O'Reilly is going ballistic against Perdue and not against his predecesser is that he wasnt aware of it in the past.

So the fact that these kids go to a majority black school is not significant? If they can afford limos, dresses, and pay for a dance hall, they could, perhaps, afford a private school, but they remain in a school where they are in the minority.

I don't know what their area is like, I don't know if their is high crime, high poverty. I don't know if they're racists.

So you're neighborhood is dominantly white. Don't you suspect that if school is 55% black, many of the neighborhoods those kids live in are a tad more diverse than yours?

What about your work?

I have followed your inane ramblings on this thread for some time and feel its time to add my 2 cents.

Unlike you, I live in a 95% or more black neighborhood. My daughter goes to a 97% black school. I graduated from a high school some 90% black in 1978. I was one of 11 whites out of 168 that graduated. At my job, not counting manaement, there are probably no more than 30 out of 400 whites.

I don't think that it is wrong to invite who you want to a private party. It is not even a real prom, since it was a private function. Do I agree with them? I am not privy to their thoughts and motives so, I can't judge them. I would disagree with them if their only reason was race, but it is still their business.

As you can figure, my prom was integrated and I was one of the few whites there. Oddly enough, 2 years later, I was invited to a prom of the sister of a friend and was suprised to find no blacks there. Why? They had there own prom. It felt very odd to me even then. Their school actually sponsered 2 seperate proms by race in 1980. I see by this story that it was still happening there till 2001!

I have attended parties where everyone is white. Does that make it racist? I have attended many that are mixed. I have NEVER attended anything since that prom where it was specifically stated that blacks were not wanted. I don't play that game and would tell them so.

I should mention that my foster daughter is black and her first comment about her school here in Memphis was "there were too many blacks." When I asked her what she meant, she told me that her previous school in Nashville was much more mixed with whites, blacks, and others. A definite eye opener for me.

I have written much more than I intended but the preoccupation with white guilt and slamming whites for every percieved sin is getting a bit old with me.

The actual truth is the governor had no business interfearing with a PRIVATE party, no matter what you or O'Reilly think. It is getting old and it is way past time to stop this madness.