Unbelievable. Two high school girls on CNN just now talking about having to desegregate

[Jennicut]

a prom. In 2008. In Mississippi. Sad state of affairs in that state.

[grannie4peace]

1. did you hear what one mother said?

there are people like that-unfortunately!!!! thank GOD that mccain didn't get elected. this is the first time i've really been proud to be an american. they don't see how they shame us and our country.but, in the long run if they don't change and grow, their shame will consume them. it's no wonder the kids get screwed up. i'm so lad morgan freeman offered them that prom. he still lives there, i think.:spank: :spank: :spank:

[RichGirl]

6. I saw that women!

How sad for her children. I thought the same. Of all the great reasons to be happy with Obama's win, the fact that people like this woman have to acknowledge that we have an AA president. Living in the south, I've realized that racists think that all whites are racist, some of us just hide it, so they think. People like this will have to see that their kind of hate is the minority view, not shared by all.

[lame54]

9. We currently have an AA president

[grannie4peace]

17. when i first came to va & applied for a job...

my future boss (white man) asked me what i felt about working for a black woman. i thought he was nuts!!! she turned out to be a lady i've loved ever since i met her.i ended up being a supervisor and did have some problems with my black employees but just because they didn't trust whites to have their back. it all ended in real respect & affection!!

[NashVegas]

2. There's a Documentary You Need to See Called "The Order of Myths"

It's up for an Independent Spirit award and maybe an Oscar.

It's about Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, where there is a white king & queen and a black king & queen. Unlike New Orleans, where the Zulus are celebrated, the black court in Mobile was so overlooked by tradition that the woman who made the documentary - who is no uncurious slouch - had no idea a black Mardi Gras court even existed until she got to college.

[Jennicut]

4. Thanks I will watch that.

I have had some experiences with racism up close when I brought an african american male friend from college to visit my hometown. Lets just say we got lots of stares/comments whispered behind our backs when we went out to some places. And this is in CT, in 1996. I come from a snooty spoiled rich town.

[NashVegas]

7. All I Can Say Is, 'It's Changing'

I grew up in the Northeast, am now in the South and know well that a large part of why racial tensions never existed in many small, snow white towns up there is because people there never had to confront their own prejudices.

[billybob537]

3. Take the LONG view

These racist are the low information(STUPID) people Republicans can con with their racist antisemetic Neocon bullshit. The southern strategy is called that becouse they knew it would only work on Racist nitwits.
EDIT: That's right Bubba I'm talking about YOU!

[bluestateguy]

5. There was a school a Georgia that had a big controversy about this a few yrs ago

I was stunned that this was apparently still going on.

I guess that's why so many white Mississippians send their kids to lily-white private "academies".

[LittleBlue]

8. Good lord... this is sad.

The rest of the industrialized world has moved on, and we're still dealing with 1960's issues. :(

[Rebubula]

11. Rest of the Industrialized world...

...LOL...you do realize that India still uses the Caste system and many countries in Asia have clear demarcation lines around class and social standing? Ask Black Brazilians if the races all get along there. Ask Black Cubans. See how the Kurds get treated in Turkey and Iraq.

Sorry...America may still suck in many realms, but that does not mean that the rest of the world is puppies and rainbows.

Racism's been a world wide problem since the beginning of time and it ain't just white and black, but thanks to folks like George Wallace, it is always easier to say play it with a southern accent.

All that said...it is sad to see stuff like this in this day and age.

[LittleBlue]

12. India, Iraq, and Brazil are not modern countries

Take a look at the people and their oxen bathing in the Ganges if you don't believe me.

Western Europe, at least, has moved beyond segregation. That's what I meant by industrialized.

[Rebubula]

15. I think...

...that the peoples of the aforementioned countries might disagree with you. However, your point is a bit elitist and racist. Brazil is a mighty, modern country. India is the world's leading exporter of Information technology. I do like the 'Take a look at their people' comment...pretty telling.

Moreover, if your definition of industrialized just means Western Europe - perhaps you are still incorrect.

Please look at France and Norway. The black population live in segregated areas and are not welcome in the normal Reindeer Games.

Segregation is NOT indigenous to the US. Feel free to point out the this country still has its problems, but to use hyperbole and to ignore the rest of the world is slightly ignorant.

[bertman]

16. Rebubula, the comment was "Take a look at THE people and THEIR oxen . . ."

Why do you find that telling? Seeing people and oxen bathing in a river that is polluted beyond belief is pretty backwards to me. (Of course, some of it is for religious reasons so they HAVE to be excused, of course)

I think India is very modern in many ways, but also very backward in others just as you proclaimed when you mentioned their caste system.

Otherwise, I agree with your comments about how other modern nations are racist.

[IndianaJones]

10. good lord..more poutrage. nt.

[MikeNearMcChord]

13. Maybe one day Mississippi will join the rest of us, living in the

21st century, perhaps around the year 2275. Then again maybe, let's turn the Magnolia State into a large reservation for Republicans, Racists and other wing-nuts. Have the border sealed, and mined. And just think have a third version of the "Escape From" series with Snake Pliskin in Escape From Mississippi.:hi:

[TheKentuckian]

14. Very sad

We still have a ways to go.