Prom Night in Mississippi

This past weekend was full of nothing :) I barely left the house - only to go grocery shopping on Sunday morning and head out that afternoon for frozen yogurt with Eric and our neighbors. Anyhow, I spent most of the day on the computer or reading or in front of the TV.

I ended up watching this documentary on HBO called Prom Night in Mississippi. It was very interesting. In short, a high school in Charleston, Mississippi was made an offer by Morgan Freeman (who happens to live in that city with a population of 2100!). Mr. Freeman offered to pay for their prom as long as they had an integrated prom. Yes, INTEGRATED - this was filmed in 2008! Though the school & its classes had been integrated since 1970, the proms were organized by the parents of the students and had been segregated - so there were always two proms - the "White Prom" and the "Black Prom". In 2008, they made a change.

Being in an interracial relationship, I can tell you first hand that it's amazing to me that people still have these close minded, inaccurate, & racist beliefs. Am I angry that people have these beliefs? Nope - that's what life is about. Free Will. God gave it to us - to choose what is right and wrong. I'm not one to judge another person. What I do get upset about is when people decide to act on these beliefs by hurting others - physically, emotionally, mentally. That does bother me.

There was a couple - high school seniors. She was white and he was black. They purposely didn't display their affection in public because they were afraid. Her parents were racist, didn't think they should be together, trying to teach her to hate black people as their parents and their parents did. His parents raised him to stay away from white people as well - so it goes both ways.

It was such an interesting documentary and was so happy that this school was able to make a change. Some may think its for the bad, others may think for the good - but either way - they were able to make a change.

If you get a chance, check out the documentary currently playing on HBO - but I'm sure you can find it on the internet somewhere!