Last Saturday the students at Turner County High School in Ashburn, Georgia attended their first racially integrated prom. That's right, their first racially integrated prom, breaking a tradition in which black and white students attended separate proms with separate (one white, one black) homecoming queens.
The separatist tradition was not rejected by all, however, as the prom for white students was held a week before the integrated prom. One student, quoted by CNN, asked her classmates why they would not attend the tradition-breaking prom. According to her they answered, "'My mommy and daddy--they don't agree with being with the colored people,' which I think is crazy." Crazy indeed.
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