Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Segregated Proms
Michael Jackson was wrong. It does matter if you are Black or White. The problems of racism in small towns like this one are so deeply imbedded that the simple answer of banning seperate Proms will not work. Social change is slow and an effort must be made to get it started. Even if a town like this starts down the path of racial harmony it will take many many years as people were born into this kind of racism and are stubborn to change thier views. A place like this is like a hundred years behind most the country so we got a while to wait.
Michael Jackson was wrong. It does matter if you are Black or White. The problems of racism in small towns like this one are so deeply imbedded that the simple answer of banning seperate Proms will not work. Social change is slow and an effort must be made to get it started. Even if a town like this starts down the path of racial harmony it will take many many years as people were born into this kind of racism and are stubborn to change thier views. A place like this is like a hundred years behind most the country so we got a while to wait.
