mamamia: The school that has a 'black' prom and a 'white' prom.

georgiegirlnyc:

I am stunned by this story.

Yep, it’s unbelievable. This is very subject is the focus of a documentary called “Prom Night in Mississippi, airing on HBO in July. I first heard about this story in January while reading about all the Sundance films and this documentary immediately jumped out - it’s crazy to me that this is even a reality.

Just this past week, the NYT covered the story in A Prom Divided:

Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County — where about two-thirds of the population is white — almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971. Such proms are, by many accounts, longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South, though in recent years a number of communities have successfully pushed for change. When the actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for last year’s first-of-its-kind integrated prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi, his home state, the idea was quickly embraced by students — and rejected by a group of white parents, who held a competing “private” prom. 

This is a good reminder that although things may seem “just fine” in our neighborhoods there are people in this world, country, state and city with very backwards beliefs and values. 

Source: georgiegirlnyc