Partying like it's 1899

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The birthernutterbaggers^* got their knickers all in a twist after this past Easter weekend because President Obama attended an Easter church service where the Episcopal preacher criticized Republicans. How dare he listen to such twaddle! He should have walked out in the middle of the sermon after this Anglican troublemaker accused Republicans of trying to put blacks “in the back of the bus,” women “back in the kitchen” and immigrants “back on their side of the border.”

This "Reverend" Luis Leon (better check his papers, please- in fact, I'd be checking up on whether that new Pope looks white enough for the job) clearly got the Right upset over such baseless allegations. The one I heard ranting about it challenged the Reverrrrend Leon's take, saying he couldn't name ONE Republican who is on record as thinking like that in 2013!

I don't know if HE can, but I got a bunch of damning evidence to that effect just now.

The Devil Went Down to Georgia, and felt right at home:


The concept of segregated proms in the South shocked people when the AJC and other newspapers wrote about it a few years back. The first question from readers was how this could still be happening.

It happens because the proms are not officially school events, although a great deal of promoting and planning by students occurs within schools. Since the proms are private parties held off campus without any school funds, schools disavow any control over the events, which are organized by parents and students and reflect historic and lingering racial divides.

In the news this week is an effort by students in Wilcox County High School to finally end the tradition there of segregated proms. Homecoming dances are also segregated there.

The teens are trying to raise money for an “Integrated Prom,” which would be the first ever in the rural Georgia county.

The paper then quoted the local news story providing more detail:

“We’re embarrassed, it’s embarrassing,” exclaimed Stephanie Sinnot, Mareshia Rucker, Quanesha Wallace, and Keela Bloodworth.The group has been friends since the 4th grade and they say they do everything together, except prom night.

“We are all friends,” said Stephanie. “That’s just kind of not right that we can’t go to prom together.”

Stephanie and Keela are white and Mareshia and Quanesha are black. They’re seniors at Wilcox County High School, a school that has never held an integrated prom during its existence. “There’s a white prom and there’s an integrated prom,” said Keela.

The rule is strictly enforced, any race other than Caucasian wouldn’t dare to attend the white prom. “They would probably have the police come out there and escort them off the premises,” said Keela.

Students at their school have shown some support, but the millennials aren't all in:  “I put up posters for the “Integrated Prom” and we’ve had people ripping them down at the school,” said Keela.

As with all news stories today, you're best avoiding the comments. One particularly reprehensible one says these integrationists are only doing it because they're fat and not attractive enough to be asked to one of the separate-but-equal "cool kids" proms.

This is 2013, folks, in an original United State of America, subject to the same Constitution that the baggers are always going on about being so important. 

Y'all go read it- probably for the first time. Including that "three-fifths" stuff that you apparently think is still in effect.  I'll just be over here in the corner, crying.


^*I don't mean to offend with this term. It's not even mine, but when I tried typing "birthers" into my phone the other day, this is what it autocorrected to. Who am I to argue with Apple?