A different world

I know approximately ten million days ago I said I would be talking about clothes. But that has to wait until another day. Today I have something more important on my mind. This morning as we ate breakfast, my mom read the TV Guide and remarked "Prom Night in Mississippi? I'll take it that's a horror movie." But, as I explained to her, it's actually a documentary about how Morgan Freeman offers to finance the prom in the small town in Mississippi in which he lives, as long as the prom is integrated for the first time. What this documentary made so glaringly obvious is that it's a completely different world down there than the one I live in. Parents didn't want their children to go to the mixed prom. They even still held a white prom. Of course, those parents insist they aren't racist, but the evidence would seem to prove otherwise. It really shows that as much as people like to use our President as an example, America is not post-racial. While in many places, people have been liberated of such prejudices, there are still so many places where racial harmony is not something that has been accomplished. There are still places where people think interracial relationships are wrong, where they still use the n-word, where they believe that the races are better separate. It's disheartening that in this day and age we still have those problems. But it's also reassuring to see, like in the documentary, that with generations comes more understanding and more acceptance. The teenagers in the documentary are my age. And they were standing up for something important. Maybe we can change the world we live in.