Whites Only???

[Poker_Babe]

I had no clue this shit still goes on in the south... I'm dumbfounded.
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/21866345/georgia-high-school-students-organize-first-integrated-prom

 

[TashaDutch]

wtf! this excists in the western world?
what the hell is wrong with the world sometimes...

 

[Jillybean]

I seem to remember one of these same exact stories from when I was in high school...

Found it!
http://www.promnightinmississippi.com/the-film

And I think it was the source of inspiration for a Disney Channel movie, too. Didn't it?

Edit: It was one year after I graduated high school.

Edit #2: Here's the movie, starring Raven Symone even. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463996/

And yes, this is an awful backwards way to do things today, but it still happens at more than a few schools.
Change takes a very, very long time to happen. As a matter of fact, change is never done happening.

 

[Alice_Sky]

Say what?! That's crazy to me :? I know racism is still around
but separating people, I thought we were at least over that!

 

[Rose]

This doesn't happen in only the south, just for the record. :thumbleft:

I have family in New Mexico and every time I go to visit, I get to witness racism towards whites and blacks from hispanics because the population where my family lives is mostly immigrants. Pardon my vernacular, I'm not sure the correct terminology for describing different races.

A side note, I'm not even sure why my race is called white. I'm not white. My skin is pink. White is the color of printer paper and I am not that color. Also, most black people I know aren't actually black. They're just really dark brown, like chocolate. I think it would be better if we used more accurate colors to describe skin color; pink, dark brown, tan, olive, etc. Or we could just get rid of those stupid adjectives anyways. That makes sense to me....

 

[Nordling]

And it gets worse. It seems that this isn't just a local thing...the moronic Governator Nathan Deal of Georgia won't endorse integrated proms because "Liberals want it." Talk about taking politics and pulling it out of your ass. <fume>

http://wonkette.com/511800/georgia-...white-teens-dancing-together-because-liberals

 

[emptiedglass]

A side note, I'm not even sure why my race is called white. I'm not white. My skin is pink. White is the color of printer paper and I am not that color. Also, most black people I know aren't actually black. They're just really dark brown, like chocolate. I think it would be better if we used more accurate colors to describe skin color; pink, dark brown, tan, olive, etc. Or we could just get rid of those stupid adjectives anyways. That makes sense to me....

It just goes to show the small-mindedness that's at the core of racism. The colour of someone's skin or what part of the globe they or their ancestors originate from has no bearing on their rights as a person.

I was always amused that in the show Enterprise, the Andorian (blue-skinned alien), Shran, always called Captain Archer "Pinkskin."

 

[Red7227]

This doesn't happen in only the south, just for the record. :thumbleft:

I have family in New Mexico and every time I go to visit, I get to witness racism towards whites and blacks from hispanics because the population where my family lives is mostly immigrants. Pardon my vernacular, I'm not sure the correct terminology for describing different races.

A side note, I'm not even sure why my race is called white. I'm not white. My skin is pink. White is the color of printer paper and I am not that color. Also, most black people I know aren't actually black. They're just really dark brown, like chocolate. I think it would be better if we used more accurate colors to describe skin color; pink, dark brown, tan, olive, etc. Or we could just get rid of those stupid adjectives anyways. That makes sense to me....

Well, they had to call them something when "nigger" went out of usage. "Black" and "white" is more definitive and prejudicial than "chocolate" and "beige"

 

[LadyLuna]

I am... translucent with freckles and the occasional tan or blush.

Seriously, my skin has no color, what you're seeing is the the layer of fat underneath. Makes it easy for doctors to find my arteries and veins. Luckily, most of that doesn't show up on camera.

Hence why I spend most of my time inside or very well covered.

 

[Anonymous]

Also, most black people I know aren't actually black. They're just really dark brown, like chocolate. I think it would be better if we used more accurate colors to describe skin color; pink, dark brown, tan, olive, etc. Or we could just get rid of those stupid adjectives anyways. That makes sense to me....

I wanna be chocolate!

 

[Rose]

Also, most black people I know aren't actually black. They're just really dark brown, like chocolate. I think it would be better if we used more accurate colors to describe skin color; pink, dark brown, tan, olive, etc. Or we could just get rid of those stupid adjectives anyways. That makes sense to me....

I wanna be chocolate!

The first time I told my bestie that she said the same thing. :lol:

13 years later and I'm still calling her chocolate, but at least I'm not licking the side of her face anymore to see if she tastes like it too. No worries though because she was convinced if she tasted like chocolate then I'd taste like vanilla. :lol: We were special kids in our own little world...

Plus, I just think chocolate sounds like a funner way to describe someone. Who doesn't wanna be called chocolate? It's yummy and smells good!

 

[Anonymous]

13 years later and I'm still calling her chocolate, but at least I'm not licking the side of her face anymore to see if she tastes like it too. No worries though because she was convinced if she tasted like chocolate then I'd taste like vanilla. :lol:

Didn't the two little girls in the movie Corrina, Corrina (with Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta) do that?


I remember the part where I think they're in church, and the White girl hugs her Black friend and says "I'm a n!gger-lover." She didn't know it was a bad thing to say...she was just repeating a phrase she had heard . Her friend got upset at her comment, but I believe they made up by the next scene.

I feel like watching this movie all over again now.