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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.

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.

Perhaps if it was a true private party I would agree with you. However, when anyone at the school who isnt black has a general invitation, I fail to see how this is a private event. It is a public event open to all good ole boys and their dates.

And again I didnt ask the governor to interfere with the all white prom, just speak out against it to shame the organizers and others like them.