So, what do you think? Considering that many of you will be attending your own school’s prom, how do you feel about the first racially integrated prom detailed in the 2009 documentary Prom Night in Mississippi? Did you know that, despite integration, there were still “separate, but equal” segregated proms for black students and white students? Do you think it’s okay if some (white) families pay for and host their own (white only) prom, separate from the school? Explain.
I personally believe that even is a white-only prom is funded by parents entirely, it is not "okay". Racism, to the extreme of physical segregation, is never "okay". The idea that a person has the right to do this is mislead and in many ways unconstitutional. The backbone of this country is dependent on the idea of freedom and inequality. How could that exist within any society when a high school prom is restricted by race? In the interest of equality and progression, it is only fair to discontinue this practice, even if it would be privately funded. The idea of "separate but equal" only pertains to the idea of separate culture and experience, not restrictive nature. Besides, most of high schoolers now have more progressive rules than their parents, and would like a different thing than their ignorant/racist parents.
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