Students attend first integrated prom
At first I couldn’t figure out what “integrated” was supposed to mean. Then I thought, that couldn’t mean what I think it means... could it?
Students of Turner County High School started what they hope will become a new tradition: Black and white students attended the prom together for the first time on Saturday.
Whoa. Does this really still happen in 2007?
Adkinson’s sister, Mindy Bryan, attended a segregated prom in 2001.
“There was not anybody that I can remember that was black,” she said. “The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It’s nothing racial at all.”
My jaw dropped as I kept reading.
Nichols said while her parents were in support of the integrated prom, some of her friends weren’t allowed to go.
“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.
Do people really still say “colored”? I understand that racism in America hasn’t gone away, but I never realized that we still have such a long way to go.
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