some parts of the south scare me...

Students attend school's first integrated prom


Woooow.... Read the whole thing, it just gets worse and worse.

Some quotes :

"The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It's nothing racial at all."
Um, definitely racial, even if you want to try to argue it isn't racist.

"In the past, two queens were chosen -- one white, one black."

"If they're not coming tonight it's because either they had to work and they couldn't get out of it or because their parents are still having an issue because they grew up in south Georgia."
I'm pretty sure it is either that last one, or they couldn't get out of work because they don't care about integration.

"Valerie McKellar echoed that sentiment as she watched white and black students pose together.
'That is so fake. There is nothing real about that,' she said.
'That's just like you're cooking a half-baked cake, putting the icing on it, and when you cut the cake, the cake ain't no good. That's how this prom is,' she said."

Yes. This really really just now happened in a school in Georgia.



Some of my friends have been talking about taking a cross country road trip, and cutting through the south. One of them, a black male, said he's questioning how comfortable he is driving through the south with a black male and a white girl or two and how people will react. We told him he was over reacting.... maybe not?