Amy Sisson just pointed out this article about a school in Missisippi that held its first integrated prom last year. Last. Year.
The same week an African-American family moves into the White House, a movie about a Mississippi high school’s first integrated dance debuts at the Sundance Film Festival.
The director credits the young people in the film who had “the courage to really speak their feelings.”
The director credits the young people in the film who had “the courage to really speak their feelings.”
What’s most significant about “Prom Night in Mississippi” is not that an interracial prom was organized, but that the historic events took place less than a year ago.
via ‘Prom Night in Mississippi’ reveals racial divides – CNN.com.
Oh. I see.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/turner.prom/index.html
If Mississippi can’t beat Georgia out of the dark ages, then Morgan Freeman will make them catch up AND get a documentary made of it.
I see how my region rolls.
I think the prize quote from that one is, “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.”
Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the prom in ’97 — it took the parents and school over 10 years to allow it to happen.
I know our country has serious issues with racism…but openly segregated high school events?! I really had no idea…
It boggles the mind, it does.
Rather speechless reading that. It took them ten years to accept Morgan Freeman’s offer…and the clinging to stereotypes as an excuse. What I find weird is how they still are planning to hold an all-white prom.
I know. I mean, ten years ago is bad enough, but that segregation lasted into the 21st century? I just don’t understand people.