Georgia Teens Fight for Racially Integrated Prom Because It’s 2013, for Chrissakes

[sunoftheskye]

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[chaya]

Your actual source for this article is the second link you provide - if you want to keep the other article you have linked, name it 'additional source' or something please. :)

[sobota]

This is why I don't claim Georgia at all. Racism is so pervasive here (and in many other states, don't get me wrong) that it's almost shorthand for being from here. I'm biracial myself, so this really, really, really gets my ire up.

[browneyedguuurl]

I'm Puerto Rican, born and raised. When I moved to Georgia in '07, it was such a huge culture shock for me. I was soooo disturbed by how racist and bigoted people I encountered were. I had never,ever in my life seen anything like it. Then I had a few situations where I had racial slurs hurled at me and I was done. I hate Georgia and I never, ever want to go back there.

[niobeeh]

Seriously? I mean, this is not a joke? Wow. It hurts.

[the_physicist]

What the fuck did I just read?! Argh. Glad the friends are getting this story out there.

And barred by the police from attending the prom because of race? Does that state not have laws against discrimination at all?

[pepsquad]

private invitation only gatherings are code for segregated. :/

[ennifer_jay]

Well seeing as though Georgia's flag was the Confederate flag up til a few years ago...

[the_physicist]

I just saw this in my inbox and couldnt work out the context until I clicked the link and it said "USA". For me Georgia is a country XD . Lol, so I was thinking: Why would Georgia have used the flag of some Russian confederacy or something? *brain break trying to work out what's being talked about*

Anyway, yeah, wow, that does sound like the kind of state of the USA I would never want to move to D: . Adopting a flag that includes the confederate flag to protest desegregation and leave it up until 2001?! D:

Being on this comm and learning about more of each US state, I'm not sure how many are left on a listof places that sound nice to go to in America  :-P .

[sfrlz]

How is this legal?? Because the parents are organizing both proms??

[pepsquad]

yup private invitation only sort of things :/