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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"It's Embarrassing" Macon-Area Students Fight: "There's a white prom and there's an integrated prom"
ROCHELLE, GA -
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"We're embarrassed, it's embarrassing," exclaimed Stephanie Sinnot, Mareshia Rucker, Quanesha Wallace, and Keela Bloodworth.
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"We are all friends," said Stephanie. "That's just kind of not right that we can't go to prom together."
Stephanie and Keela are white and Mareshia and Quanesha are black. They're seniors at Wilcox County High School, a school that has never held an integrated prom during its existence.
"There's a white prom and there's an integrated prom," said Keela.
the rest:
http://www.wsav.com/story/21866654/macon-students-fight-segregated-prom
and this is what they are doing about it:
Wilcox County H.S. Students to Host First Integrated Prom
http://www.newscentralga.com/news/local/Wilcox-County-HS-Students-to-Host-First-Integrated-Prom-201146481.html
Deep13
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MattBaggins
(7,897 posts)This is mind blowing to think this exists today.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)to the insanity and shame on students before them for not having enough guts to fight for what is right.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)We're in the 21st Century, right? Not all of us apparently!