Separate implies prom night

"All students are welcome at the black prom, though generally few if any white students show up. The white prom, students say, remains governed by a largely unspoken set of rules about who may come. Black members of the student council say they have asked school administrators about holding a single school-sponsored prom, but that, along with efforts to collaborate with white prom planners, has failed."

[Full NYT article]

I can't help but wonder if any of these kids danced to this song, and if so exactly how they felt about it.

To be even more thoroughly appalled, check out the interview with the mother - who is apparently a little fuzzy on certain Constitutional principles, and also on how much cleavage can reasonably be bared in a prom dress - who says that "everything is fine like it is" and "the kids are perfectly fine with it."

Except that it's not fine; it's bigoted and backward and it hurts people, some of whom are still minors. Not to mention that it's a NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT.