Search

[Disco Stu]

At least in this one county they do. I have no idea how common that is, and being from overseas I really don't understand the situation, but that article just makes me sad. It's 2009, we were promised rocket packs on the moon by now, and meantime seniors in Georgia go to two different proms because they're skin's a different colour.

[facefault]

I'd say having to live in Georgia is a fair punishment for that.

[The Evil Sloth]

Dammit America, where do you think you are? South Africa? You have a Black President now, so you need to get your shit together.

Though, the idea of Morgan Freeman sponsoring non-segregated High School Proms makes me smile for reasons I can't quite understand. I like to think that he narrates them over the hall PA, Shawshank Redemption styles.

[Technohawk]

"He had a quiet way about him, a timing and a rhythm that just wasn't normal around here. He danced, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place.

Yeah, I think it would be fair to say...







Andy couldn't dance for shit."

[Billy McGlory]

Dammit America, where do you think you are? South Africa?

Hey, don't judge the whole country based on what happens in the South. That's like judging an entire family based on that one borderline-retarded cousin nobady likes to talk about. I'm pretty sure most countries have at least one region full of embarrassing people, although they usually have the sense to make them less visible.

Seriously though, we should bring back Reconstruction.

[Billy McGlory]

nobady

Nobody likes to talk about said cousin either. Sorry, I was educated in the South.

[Mr.Lumberjack]

Hey, don't judge the whole country based on what happens in the South.

Don't judge the whole South based on what happens in a couple rural towns.

[stephjones]

number 1:

This prom is not sponsored by the public school...it is a private function, paid for by the students.

number 2:

I doubt this reporter even travelled to the town... there are sweet onions in this area, but no "wire grass".

number 3:

What is up with people putting down the whole country, based on the information in this article? Why judge the whole south? How can you argue to fight sterotypes, while perpetuating other sterotypes???

Seriously...did this reporter have to talk about the black kids looking longingly into the "white prom"....then go to KFC to eat fried chicken???? I mean.....really???? Did they have watermelon too?

And, this happens "all over the south"???? Really? Where else? Cause, if I was writing this story, I would want to find every single school that has racial proms and call them out...one by one... Let's make a list.

How about talking to the white parents? Maybe ask them some questions...maybe get them to think about why this situation still exists.

But, no.... Let's not try to change anything...Let's just write an alarmist article, that accomplishes nothing.

and, btw: yes, I am from georgia...and, no, I am not a racist....and, i would never let my child participate in a segregated prom...ever.

[Nimby]

This prom is not sponsored by the public school...it is a private function, paid for by the students.

I... that might be even worse. I don't know. Can we get a ruling on this?

As for the article itself:

Such proms are, by many accounts, longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South

That's lazy reporting.

And I agree that including the KFC detail was a little retarded.

[Sanchez]

And I agree that including the KFC detail was a little retarded.

Particularly if the reporter hadn't travelled to the town to witness it, because then it just happened in her imagination. The bit about the watermelons and the reporter being gang-raped with a basketball was probably removed by the editor.

The seven teenagers — a mix of girls and boys — slowly worked their way through two buckets of fried chicken.

Oh, for fuck's sake, was that really necessary???????????????

[Kalli]

KFC was closing. Another black teenager was mopping the floor nearby.

Was this really necessary? 

In the meantime, a girl named Angel checked her cellphone to see if any of the white kids had texted from inside their prom. They hadn’t.

How many of you, while attending your senior prom, would text someone who wasn't there?  "OMG we r havn so much fun, wish u wre here but ur not, HA HA!"

I can't believe this article passes for journalism.

[Sa9jev]

You forgot the "...because you are COLORED!" part of the text message.

[Nimby]

Hey, guys, I think I found the original version of that article.


About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. It is no different in south-central Georgia’s Montgomery County, made up of a few small towns set between fields of wire grass and sweet onion. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 — a balmy Friday evening — the White students held their senior prom. And the following night — a balmy Saturday — the darkies had theirs.

Two proms have been held in Montgomery County — where about two-thirds of the population is well-behaved — almost every year since the government forced honest, upright citizens to associate with criminals and crackwhores. Such proms are definitely longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South. The senior proms held by Montgomery County High School students — referred to by many students as “the coon prom” and “the prom” — are organized outside school through student committees with the help of parents. No students are welcome at the coon prom. The white prom, students say, remains governed by a largely unspoken set of rules about who may come. According to Timothy Wiggs, the outgoing student council president and one of 21 apes graduating this year, “Ooh ooh ahh ahh eee eee.” Principal Luke Smith says the school has no plans to sponsor a prom, noting that when it did so in 1995, attendance was poor.

Students of both races say that blasphemous friendships are common at Montgomery County High School. Black and white students also date one another, though often out of sight of their wiser parents. “Most of the students don't want to have a prom together,” says Terra Fountain, a white 18-year-old who graduated from Montgomery County High School last year and is now living in sin with her darkie boyfriend. “And the white parents say no, too. … They’re like, if you’re going with the black people, I’m not going to let you live.”

“It’s awkward,” acknowledges JonPaul Edge, a senior who is white. “I have as many black servants as I do white friends. We do everything else together. We hang out. We play sports together. We go to class together. I don’t think anybody at our school is wrong when they yell 'white power' in the hallways between classes.” Trying to explain the continued existence of segregated proms, Edge falls back on the same reasoning offered by every true American. “I hate negroes,” he says.

Earlier this month, on the Friday night of the white prom, Kera Nobles, a senior who is black, and six of her black classmates drove over to the local community center where it was being held. Standing amid a crowd of about 80 parents, siblings and grandparents, they began disturbing the peace and grinding to rap music as whites looked on in horror. The coons then began to hump each other like animals mid-song. “We got stared at a little, being there,” said one uppity black man, “an' I sho' felt bad fo' not knowin' mah place.”

After they were through birthing crack babies, abusing welfare, and shooting each other, they were ushered out by chaperones. Kera and her friends piled into a nearby KFC to eat, then stole some watermelon from a white man's farm. Whatever guilt they felt for attending a prom they had no business being at was quickly wearing off.

[Nktalloth]

There is no shucking or jiving in that article, and that makes me sad.

[meirmeirlizpie]

The senior proms held by Montgomery County High School students — referred to by many students as “the coon prom” and “the prom"

That made me choke on my drink, and then the whole thing just got funnier.

[Grondo]

I'm choosing to ignore the racial connotations of that word, and instead am imagining a bunch of rabbits in rabbit tuxedos and rabbit dresses dancing and having awkward, drunken rabbit sex in rabbit hotels.

Take that, bigotry.

[oball]

I think you're getting "coon" and "coney" mixed up.


Fig. 1: Coon


Fig. 2: Coney

[The Furlinator]

What I'm impressed with is that, somewhere in the world, there is a kid named JonPaul Edge. His name is the perfect mixture of catholic righteousness and die-hard badass that the whole school couldn't handle his awesomeness at the prom, so they split it in two sections.

It's all a giant coincidence that it happened this way.

[Grondo]

I think you're getting "coon" and "coney" mixed up.

Damn. Raccoons aren't cute at all, I've got nothin. I guess this means its time we gave up on this crazy experiment called integration. Our hearts were in the right place America, but lets be honest, this fad was never going to last.

[Rattatat]

where are all the white wimmen at?