It is depressing that white students in rural Georgia have decided to go back to having a segregated prom. Where I come from in rural
Louisiana, we had separate, private proms for blacks and whites too. This
was almost 20 years ago, so I don’t know if they still do, but as I recall,
it wasn’t something the students necessarily wanted; it was mandated by the
parents (at least the white ones). This kind of ugliness is not the province
of whites alone, though. The head of the black caucus in the Louisiana
legislature recently complained that too many white people are going to the
historically black Southern University Law School. I’m sure if the black
students in that rural Georgia town decided to hold a blacks-only prom, and
said they were doing it to preserve their cultural heritage, or gave some
other p.c. excuse, nobody in the media would bat an eye.