# White only prom **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443 "2003-05-01T18:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/201 "2003-05-04T21:10:57Z")
Folks, **milroyj’s** posting behavior in this thread is very troll-ly and I think we should ignore him. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/202 "2003-05-04T21:11:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by milroyj \* > **Assumes facts not in evidence. How do you know they’re racists?** Because they’re throwing a party in which there are two criteria to get invited: you have attend their highschool, and you have to have the same skin color as they do. How is that _not_ racist? And don’t you fucking dare say “They can invite whoever they want,” because who they _can_ invite is not the fucking issue, the issue is who they _did_ invite. > [@](#): > > \*\*Nope, the guest list of a private party cannot, by definition, be racist. \*\* _What_? Where the fuck do you get that kind of cockamamie idea from? Of **course** a guest list can be racist, you boob. For evidence, see the article linked in the OP. Honestly, can you get any dumber? Wait, don’t answer that… ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/203 "2003-05-04T21:17:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Because they’re throwing a party in which there are two criteria to get invited: you have attend their highschool, and you have to have the same skin color as they do. How is that _not_ racist? And don’t you fucking dare say “They can invite whoever they want,” because who they _can_ invite is not the fucking issue, the issue is who they _did_ invite. \*\* Why do you care who the fuck they invite or don’t invite? If I’m not invited to my neighbor’s Kwaanza celebration, is he a racist? They can invite whomever they want. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/204 "2003-05-04T21:26:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by milroyj \* > \*\*I support the fact that these kids had a party with those people they wanted to invite. \*\* And later at the Junior KKK meeting, they also were havinga party with people they wanted to invite. Heartwarming. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/205 "2003-05-04T21:31:47Z")
Serious question folks, if my neighbor has a Kwaanza (sp) celebration, or a MLK holiday party, or his daughter’s wedding, or whatever, and he doesn’t invite any of his white neighbors, is he a racist? It was a private party, and they can invite whomever they want. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/206 "2003-05-04T21:37:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Serious question folks, if my neighbor has a Kwaanza (sp) celebration, or a MLK holiday party, or his daughter’s wedding, or whatever, and he doesn’t invite any of his white neighbors, is he a racist? If he invites all his black neighbors, and none of his white neighbors, then YES! If he’s specifically excluding people because of the color of their skin, then he’s a fucking racist, just like the kids in the linked article. My dog has figured this one out by now, and he’s fucking _colorblind_\*. What’s your excuse, **milroyj**? ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/207 "2003-05-04T21:41:54Z")
So people can’t have private parties, and invite whomever they wish? There are now rules about guest lists? I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/208 "2003-05-04T22:07:49Z")
Rules? Who said anything about rules? For the umpteenth goddam time, **milroyj** , _no one is trying to force these kids to hang out with black people._ They have every right to invite whoever they want to their party! Let me say that real slow so that maybe, just maybe, you might actually understand that: They have every right to invite whoever they want for whatever reason they want Okay? Is that clear? Do you get it yet? All that we’re saying, the only thing this **entire goddamned thread** has been about, has been commenting on _who they choose to invite._ Please, _please_ get this through your massively thick skull, because I’m running out of synonyms for “stupid.” ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/209 "2003-05-04T22:17:14Z")
Why do you care who they choose to invite? It’s a private party, and they can invite whomever they want. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/210 "2003-05-04T22:41:21Z")
Fuckin’ halfwit. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/211 "2003-05-04T22:47:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Why do you care who they choose to invite? Because people who venture into the Pit generally have opinions about things happening in the world. We come here because we find it entertaining to post our opinions on a message and read what others have to say. We care about these kids and their racist party just as much as we care about you and your syphilitic brain. > [@](#): > > It’s a private party, and they can invite whomever they want. Your idiocy has no bounds. ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/212 "2003-05-04T22:47:52Z")
It’s a private party, and they can invite whomever they want. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/213 "2003-05-04T22:56:28Z")
I’d still like to see **milroyj** respond to the two seperate analogies made about membership in white supremacist groups. Not because it’ll be insightful or revealing. Just 'cause I think it’ll be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/214 "2003-05-04T23:13:36Z")
Alright - after reading that article, I see something that I read previously that isn’t made really absolutely clear there. Maybe this will help **milroyj** somewhat. Since 1972, the school in question has had a black prom and a white prom. NO INTEGRATED PROM. From the article in question: > [@](#): > > Juniors are in charge of planning the prom each year and last year they decided to have just one dance — the first integrated prom in 31 years in the rural Georgia county 150 miles south of Atlanta. Last year, for the FIRST TIME since 1971, that school had an integrated prom. Now, the white kids planning this PROM this year decided, you know what? We don’t wanna have to have a fucking prom with those smelly black folk. So we’ll throw our own. No black kids allowed. They are rolling back DOWN the hill. They have had segregated proms for YEARS, until last year, and they don’t want to let that go - how the heck is that not racist? Do you see now? Maybe? Do you see that it’s a little bit MORE than a ‘private party’? Yes, they can invite whoever they want, but if that guest list reads ‘any of the white kids at our school, but none of the black kids, or asians, or mulattos, or native peoples’ it is a bloody racist guest list. As a previous poster stated, it’s as fucking racist as a fucking crossburning in a black family’s front yard, planted there on MLK Jr’s Birthday! ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/215 "2003-05-04T23:13:51Z")
It’s a private party, and they can invite whomever they want. ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/216 "2003-05-04T23:18:37Z")
Why is ascribing nasty reasons for a group of white people’s behavior acceptable? ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/217 "2003-05-04T23:21:48Z")
It’s called hyperbole. And finally you said something different. Do you agree that holding a party for the sole reason of keeping it exclusively white is immoral and unethical? ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/218 "2003-05-04T23:23:33Z")
After all, we are not allowed to criticize black people, or , Allah forbid, Muslims, but white kids in Georgia are targets. Why is that? ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/219 "2003-05-04T23:24:03Z")
My kids are gonna be white kids in Georgia. Will you answer the question? Or are you just padding your post count? ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443/220 "2003-05-04T23:25:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Venoma \* > \*\*It’s called hyperbole. And finally you said something different. > > Do you agree that holding a party for the sole reason of keeping it exclusively white is immoral and unethical? \*\* How do you know what their reason is, let alone their sole reason? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-only-prom/172443.md?page=12)