White' prom still takes place in Wilcox County, GA

[SpartanDem]

It may be 2013, but students at a Georgia high school made national headlines Saturday night by holding their first-ever integrated prom. However, a CBS Atlanta News investigation, revealed segregation is still very much alive in the school system, despite the new developments.

Wilcox County High School is located three hours south of Atlanta. For decades, parents have funded and organized prom, not the school system. They've hosted a "white" prom and a prom for everybody else. Because it's a private event, no laws are broken.

However, this year, a group of students, two white girls and two black girls, became frustrated with the tradition and worked together to organize an integrated prom.

They faced a lot of opposition. "I put up posters for the integrated prom, and we've had people ripping them down at school," one student told a Macon-based T.V. station.

Despite the students holding a prom designed to include everybody, CBS Atlanta News discovered the "white" prom still took place. It was held in Fitzgerald, Georgia, on April 20. No one confirmed it was a "white-only" event, but dozens of Caucasian kids, dressed in prom gowns and tuxes, attended. CBS Atlanta News never saw anyone of color the entire night.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/22086349/wilcox-county-white-prom

You may remember this story from a few weeks back about this school in Georgia where parents still organized separate white/non white proms. Well the local CBS station in Atlanta decided showed up to the "white prom" they didn't seem too happy with the cameras.

[Hoyt]

1. Old hatred dies slowly in that part of country, where "Christianity," racism and guns are common.

Mommas and dads bring their kids up as losers off the old block, and the country suffers.

[dems_rightnow]

2. A Star-belly prom!

Somebody should organize a star-belly prom. Hand out stars to affix to the front of their outfits.

[rurallib]

3. So I look up Fitzgerald to see where it is

and I see it is just north and east of the Jefferson Davis Memorial County Park

[Stretch714]

4. Racism will never go away in this country when one group can do things the other can't.

[DevonRex]

5. I am proud, strangely, to say that

even the private school my parents sent me to in Mississippi now admits African American students. And the prom is not segregated. I am sure people will have conniption fits at the first interracial date to a school event but they are much too polite to make a fuss. And the school needs the tuition money too badly.

Yes, I deliberately left the probable reason for the change until last. It's why I said I'm strangely proud. Not too long ago they would have gone bankrupt before allowing black students. So, I'm not sure if they're that broke or if they're finally coming along. I do know I'm desperate for good news, though, so I'm going to grasp that straw tight and hold on for a little while.