Unbelieveable...Integrated Prom in Georgia
So many of you may have heard about this on the news but I have been under my nursing school rock and just read this tonight. Apparently this high school in Georgia had its first integrated prom! I guess I didn't realize that there were places still in the U.S. that had a white prom and black prom (or white and black anything)
AND the crazy part was that it took a majority vote of the students to make it happen, the faculty and teachers haven't made the decision to bring all the students together, it took the students to bring them together and start a "new tradtion"...duh? most of the country has been doing this for many decades.
"I've asked, 'Why can't you come?' and they're like, 'My mommy and daddy -- they don't agree with being with the colored people,' which I think is crazy," she said. A quote from a white girl that attended the prom.
Just unreal...says alot about south Georgia...but hopefully this will bring some change for the school and the community since they are apparently behind the times.