I live in Oxford Ms. (Ole Miss). In 1991 a white girl asked me to prom. Word got back to the teachers, etc and a counselor called me in and discouraged me from going. Her words, "We don't need anymore black boys hanging from trees." . What?? I'm like 16 at the time. I had to lie to the girl & make up some excuse not to go..she already bought her dress.
Certainly Prom Night is uplifting, but how uplifted can you truly be, knowing that the following year, Charleston High School had another all-white prom. Or that Saltzman's film, far from capturing a dying tradition, taps into a new era of educational segregation in USA, with recent reports that conclude the nation's schools are more racially segregated now than at any other time since 1954. Which makes Prom Night in Mississippi that much more important to watch.
poor woman, can't see past her nose. living someone else's ideals. God has no color, but I respect their views, they come here to experience life and not matter how many life times is up to them. Mainwhile people that concure these issues move on the other advanced planets and galaxies.
For those of us you live in America we know how embarrassing this is. America stands for equality and this type of racist crap still goes on. Any type of segregation should not exist and when parents spew this racist crap to their children it only makes it worse. Morgan Freeman you are an amazing person for standing up for the children who realize how important it is to break this tradition. And thanks to the children in this video you stood up for what's right!
if God didn't want races to mix then he would have made the DNA incomparable, the same reason why you can't cross a Dog with a Cat...but that's not the case now is it?
Woman at the front, you stupid fuck! If that's your problem then why do you feel comfortable living in the land of the Indians? Caucasians are from Europe. If that's how you feel (like you expressed it) then you should go back to Europe
graduated high school in 88' we were intergrated. I had never heard of a segragated prom in mississippi. Perhaps this some timy town in north mississippi? Whites are only 50% of the student body and 15% in others in South Mississippi.
@PhillyLucky7 no, it doesn't. "earring on the right ear means gay" is something of the youth , not the older generation. He's an elderly man--it doesn't apply to him because he's obviously not going to aware of or interested in the current trends. And Morgan Freeman is an amazing actor and a beast so stop hatinggg
@7475flyersfan well because different races of humans lived in different continents bone and muscle structure has adapted to suit each races habitat, this is why people that have a family history of living somewhere are defined differently. But yes as far as chromosomes we are all the same ;)
Clearly you're not the person to criticize intolerance. You have got to get rid of a lot of self-righteousness to qualify for that. But if it helps you to feel good about yourself to call others racist, then you do well to choose me. That meaningless term has lost it sting to my hide a long time ago. Just curious, do you also call your mother, "dude?"
white people are the epitome of racism and they invented it. Whites are fucking ugly,pink skinned mutated albino east indians. thank god by 2050 white race will be extinct.
how does integration effect individuality? How is mixing black and white change who you are? We are all individuals because of our personalities not by the colour of our skin.
Who in the hell is Morgan Freeman to judge anyone? I notice he stuck to his race when he hooked up with his own granddaughter (step granddaughter, but regardless). Playing god doesn't make you god Morgan, now shut the hell up and go make another half-assed movie.
@carolhawn when it comes to law, ignorance is often illegal, apart from in cases of duress, misrepresentation or unconscionable conduct. oh yes. and racism is illegal.
@ilikeoootoob . If racism is illegal, then you and I and everyone else should be in prison. The law punishes acts, not thoughts. But oh, I have corrected you. Dumb me, because no way will someone like you stand for that. Just curious, what does the race of Jesus have to do with anything? To define what race a person is depends on how you define the different races. That is going to vary a lot among the 3 billion people here on earth. Sorry. but you only get to define that for yourself.
@carolhawn sorry dude, i'm not racist, so i'm not going to jail :-). you're right, the race of Jesus doesn't necessarily pertain to your comments. but can you honestly say that to be against racism is indoctrination? of course, the idea of what race is debatable - i'm not sure i subscribe to ideas of race anyway. but your comments imply an acceptance of racism - discriminating on the basis of "race". that is indefensible. in fact, you've admitted to being racist.
@carolhawn no. education is enlightenment and liberation. indoctrination is myopia and imprisonment. quite a fallacy there. i see you're into Jesus. just wanna point out he wasn't white.
@cutCouture I agree with you. Even if they might know that the sqaure of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the sqaures of the other two sides of a right triangle, SOMEWHERE they either missed something or were taught some VERY odd things by "well-meaning older people".
Everyone's entitled to their own views- no matter how horrible they seem to you, that's their views. All I can say is that I think tolerance towards everyone is started at home. We need to set good, open-minded examples for our kids to follow.
@bookscantalk How do you do that? Ive lived in Mississippi all my life and still today whites teach there kids to be racist. someone my be entitled to their views but that doesn't make them right. I know a white guy here now who wants to date a black girl but he says his dad would kill him if he brought her to his house. People its 2010 when will it end.
2-4-6-8.... We don't want to intergrate!!!! Ahahaaa!!
Mr. Freeman your wastin your time!! Theese people can's see past their own assholes!! Stick to Hollywood and giving money to overseas! I.E. Cambodia,Haiti, Central America, Africa. Oprah already wrote the fucktards off and built a school in Africa for girl...and she's from Mississippi too!
That's why the Gov't does give a shit about that part of the country!!!
2-4-6-8.... We don't want to intergrate!!!! Ahahaaa!!
Mr. Freeman your wastin your time!! Theese people can's see past their own assholes!! Stick to Hollywood and giving money to overseas! I.E. Cambodia,Haiti, Central America, Africa. Oprah already wrote the fucktards off and built a school in Africa for girl...and she's from Mississippi too!
That's why the Gov't does give a shit about that part of the country!!!
@arie624 Because that is one to two ways for ignorant people who are loosing/ can't really back up an arguement to stop it in it's tracks. Traditional Racist use "God" in the wrong way and Modern day liberal racist call others "RACIST". These are the best ways for the far right and far left to try and stop any arguement in it's tracks today.
Some people are just ... stupid . GOD gave us all different nationalities and different native languages for ONE reason only . Back in the biblical days some people tried to build a ladder to heaven and GOD made us all different so they couldnt communicate with each other to build the ladder . Its actually in the bible . I dont know exactly what chapter but it's in there. Racism is just a way for people to express their ignorance .. GOD made ONE race .. the HUMAN race ... dummies.
@ModelTypeChiQ It's in Genesis 11, and most likely it's a parable to help understand the world in terms of God... And you're right. Apart from some VERY superficial physical stuff, humans, regadless of color or cultural group, are QUITE alike and form one speicies. (Or to put it another way, intelligent beings from another planet are quite a bit more likely to be gentically different and unable to mate with humans.)
One thing I have noticed for many years on the subject of Racism, the people documenting Racism always love to go to the South to "find and uncover" it yet there are just as many White Supremacists in the rest of the country, the Klan is alive and well in Michigan and many Skin Head groups dot the mid west as well as other locations within the country
Peoples individuality have nothing to do with the color of their skin. By wanting to live in a world where everybody is white or black, makes you want to live in a world where everybody looks the same too.
I'm Black, and my family is from Bentonia, Mississippi. We went down there for my great-granddad's funeral (R.I.P Tampa Wilson). Anyway, I don't know what part of Mississippi we went to. We went to a mall, so I'm guessing it was the closest mall to Bentonia. Anyway wherever that place was, I could just feel the racism around me. It was weird. I was only 10 at the time.
interesting...if you believe in God, you should know that the Bible says there was just ONE couple from which ALL people came...so how silly does that make racism?
@hihosilverlining2 - Some people, not me, but some people would say that you haven't read far enough into the Bible. Google; "Curse of Cain Racism". What you'll find is that some folks believe that black skin is a sign that they have been cursed by God and therefore are no longer entitled to the rights of full human being. It was used to uphold slavery in the South.
I an neither Black nor Southern but I am a Bluesman and the cultural artistic contributions form Mississippi came from the African American Community From Robert Johnson to "Shakey Walter Horton" , the greatest music this country produced came from the suffering and joy of the African American Community. The whites south of the Mason Dixon Line should hang they heads in shame It has been reported that by 2030 or so, whites are going to be a minority in the country. It can't come fast enough.
ok, i'm from Mississippi and they picked the town that is still stuck in the past.......does NOT mean we are all that way. we are NOT all racist and i'm waiting for someone to say so.
uhuh i live in mississippi too and im black. i have no problem with anybody here. i think it's just charlestown and a couple more places. but yea, i agree with you
Good post. Charleston is one of the WORST areas of Mississippi. Its as ghetto as it gets, and if I had children... we wouldn't live there.
Maybe if some of you critics would move your industry to this area, create jobs, help end the desperation, which would lower the crime... it wouldn't be like this.
I'm so sick of outsiders giving Mississippi a black eye, and they have no clue as to why it is like this.
But Charleston is a very unsafe place, and its not the white folks you need to fear
If religion didn't exist, would we still have rabid racism? Probably not. Pretty scary what religious(*the hard corers) people still believe. And it defenitely isn't peace for all man kind.
If you were'n't raised to believe in a god, would you still want segregated proms? Probably not. So our problem here is pretty clear... religion. I'm sorry to say.
What if we took "religion" and the bible out of the equation, would we still have racism? That's one big question i don't think this film tackles. But i guess, one issue at a time right? ;)
No, if god wanted us to live separately between race we wouldn't be living on the same planet. These so-called religious people only take bits and pieces of the bible and turn it around to use them against others based on their 'own' belief. It's okay because Jesus was racist and he didn't teach people to love one another :rollseyes:
i love how these white supremacists are like yo if your white your white for real where are yall to say the world is better without segregation you want to live in a world where white people are the supreme rulers well if thats the case i would rather be black any day because i think they are more cultured then our race will ever be
The good thing is that these people have been so left behind by the world. They are powerless, and contribute nothing to the progress of our country. They never did, and never will because all they do is spread ignorance and poor fashion sense.
Yeah, there still r segregated proms in some RURAL areas of the south, but even most of the rural towns are not like that, just a few.
Earlier this year I was talking to a girl from Mt. Vernon, Georgia....and the high school down there still has segregated proms.
However she told me generally speaking among the young adults theres really no real racial problems and that some of the whites and blacks actually went to each others prom anyway (so its stupid for them to even have a segregated one
This lady is so ignorant!!! Does she even realize thew words that are coming out of her mouth...Seriously, visualize what she is saying...
and it don't make no sense.
Same goes with these half of these comments.Nobody said that they are not proud to be black, i believe the point is coming together and interacting with other races... if you are going to school together, playing sports together, eating together, why should prom be any different....
It's Wonderful and i will not say all but a lot of people think like this woman! who think that whoever is not white is their slave or just simply not human! this woman needs to read the bible cause it says that Men were all created equal. So this means that we are all equal and nobody is better than anyone just because they are a different color skin.
I can not believe your ignorance! i think that you should get out of you tube! and start doing some reading and you will learn something good that is going to keep you from writing things like the one you just wrote. look outside the box cause FYI south America, middle east and some parts of Africa like you said are NOT how they are for being BROWN or BLACK OK! Read please Read that is our only salvation! i would tell you more but i can't. Just do what i said read and you will see the truth!
I saw that lady in an interacial porn film! NO JOKE! SERIOUSLY! She gladly took on 2 black guys and while her husband filmed it. Then she gave them money and told them not to say a word to anyone!
Everyone is mixed if you go back far enough. If you actually think you're racially pure, you're lying to yourself. And as a Christian, I find it very offensive that you would bring God into your racist arguments.
I'm leaving b/c of racism! Ms. will never progress until people, like the 1's in this documentary erase the hate that is filled n their hearts, like others across Ms. This place is not 4 any1 trying 2 progress w/ and education especially if ur a minority like myself, which is why I'm leaving 2 have a better & comfortable life, people in ms. R so ignorant, & do NOT take well 2 change I can't wait 2 leave!!! It will definitely be the most rewarding satisfaction in my lif
Some people are so ignorant. GOD isn't simpled and prejuidce like humans. If he really exists he's surpasses those issues. If we weren't meant to mix, then why do we have the same sex organs to produce offspring together. And there's millions of people on this planet, people are going to be atttracted to one another and mix. It's inevitable.
Some people like the ones on this video are simple-minded. GOD isn't simple, like humans. If we weren't meant to mix, then why do we have the same sex organs to produce offspring together and there's millions of people of this planet, people are gonna mix, it's inevitable.
This is crazy! THESE people are either really WHITE or really BLACK. Most of the whites are confederate insurgents, and most of the blacks didn't get the memo that blacks are free.
Hey black people: feel free to raise your FREE asses up out of enemy territory.
If you need help understanding how backwards this looks to the rest of America, think of this: It's a documentary film on HBO on Demand.
Morgan Freeman likes white women. One broke him and his wife up causing them to divorce after years of marriage (they were even in a car wreck together just outside Charleston), I guess he couldn't deal with the race war going on in this city.
If morgan wanted to help this town he should have built a new school as much money as the man has to have . That is what the black and white kids needed more . He never knocked on a white girls door at the age of 17 and asked for a date . If he had he would be missing in alot of movies cause that would have been one dead black man back in that time frame in mississippi . So congrats to him for footing a dance in his home town . I like the man but there are chains on the poor period any color.
I'm from Northeast MS, and I know for a fact that racism exists throughout the North part of MS. As for NE Mississippi, racism is heavy and it powers and provides a means of shelter for alot of racist people in this area.
If the whites would stop with their bigot mindset and shallowness.Then, we might all be able to get along...then again I am talking about NE Mississippi.
Being black, you would say that. Its our fault our fault. Dude its both ours and your fault. Blaming it on white people is the uneducated thing to do. Which I'm sure you are not educated anyway.
Sometimes it that way, BUT when to comes to segregation it caused by whites. Blk parents don't care, they only want their kids to enjoy their high school prom. The high school promo is for eveyone , but the whites didn't want it to mix. It's like that in ALOT of towns in the South.
The racism in MS is completely ridiculous but it's real. Look at the interracial couple in the documentary that had to drive to the prom in separate cars. The racism is real and dangerous.
yes i voted for mccain not cause he was white but because he believed in the same God George Washington did and same one I DO and yes i love black people some of best people i ever worked with where black much better than some fat lazy white ones i think HBO missed the whole point we are moving ahead and getting better color is only skin deep and all races have stupid people in them and to the dude that dont believe in God dude u going to hell anyway so who cares what u think Gotta love America
You know what I find interesting is that the most racist people first start off with "I love black or I have black friends" and THEN here come BUT. HBO didn't miss any point. The year was 2008 and you have segregated proms. What the hell kind of nonsense is that? So what Obama doesn't pray to the same God George Washington did? Please, I'm a democrat and prayer has gotten me through the most difficult times. Since when does God ask what your political affilation is?
question was to the couple How where u raised to believe . being from ms. our grandparents did teach us not to mix as far as sex not cause one is better than the other but because it leads to trouble . how is she racist she let her kid attend the prom . have u ever lived in a place where 2 black men broke into a church & raped a 80 year old white woman or seen a band of red necks beat the hell out of a black boy for dating a white girl . would bet morgans own parents taught the same back then !
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I live in Mississippi and racism only exists in about 1% of our population. Videos like this just keep bringing up an age old problem that we (Mississippians) solved years and years ago. It was the blacks who split and wanted to have their own prom. Who cares??? Seriously its just a prom. Let them do what they want and what makes them happy. My high school's prom was not split and it was 10 years ago.
Blacks didn't want their own prom, ARE you F***** serious Ghostofjackie??? The high school prom is for everyone, the whites wanted to split, like it has always bee nin the South. Not wonder people think MS is racist, cause folks like you hide the truth and yes I'm from MS and a black male.
get real please! racism exists throughout the entire state of mississippi, I'am so ELATED morgan freeman sheded light on this subject, it was definitely needed, I live in Ms. and plan 2 leave 4 graduate school soon n cali. continued...
Well, I'm from Grenada, MS (about 20 minutes from Charleston) and there are some in my town that feel the same way as those in this doc about races needing to be separate. The school prom here isn't segregated, BUT there is something called a "cotillion" that's nothing but whites. I've always been told it was created as a "dance to keep the blacks out". And considering some of the attitudes of some in this area, it wouldn't surprise me one bit. Seriously, Mississippi-WAKE UP.
Not to parrot everybody but it boggles my mind that there are segregated proms in this day and age. It makes me wonder how far we've really come since the turmoil of the 1960s. So many fought to end this sort of thing, only to have it abided by those in power once again.
i live in mississippi and i'm not racist how bout yall come down here and see how many of us aren't racist and yes i do agree with the second dude but i'm not racist
I find it so funny that some people talk about how enlightened and progressive it is that Obama has a white mother and a black father.
The great majority of black/white mixed couples are between a black man and a white woman. Now how do you think black women feel that a certain percentage of black men would rather date an obese white woman over a black woman? I bet they don't like it very much.
i live in mississippi and this ignorant couple look like a couple of meth heads. this state is already the butt of every stupid, redneck, religious freak joke out there. but honestly i had no idea there were still segregated proms. that's just sad. i'm not saying religious people are racist, but if you're a racist chances are you're religious too. and yes, i'm an atheist, liberal, non racist born and raised and still living in mississippi.....how the hell did that happen?! LOL
It's not wrong to try to change peoples views on racism. Racism holds us down as a society, it squelches thought and suppresses opportunity. It hurts everyone who is inundated by its polluting waters. People who are racist deprive others the right to excel on their own merits while simultaneously denying themselves the benefit of knowing another human being, their ideas, and gaining from their experiences.
These people are ridiculous, in order to break the cycle it has to start with them! Like what someone said from the NAACP on CNN to paraphrase, "people say we're living in a post racism world, but we're still not over racism."
I live in Oxford Ms. (Ole Miss). In 1991 a white girl asked me to prom. Word got back to the teachers, etc and a counselor called me in and discouraged me from going. Her words, "We don't need anymore black boys hanging from trees." . What?? I'm like 16 at the time. I had to lie to the girl & make up some excuse not to go..she already bought her dress.
MrMoodyHyadd 2 months ago
@MrMoodyHyadd that's a shame man
kpawis 1 week ago
Certainly Prom Night is uplifting, but how uplifted can you truly be, knowing that the following year, Charleston High School had another all-white prom. Or that Saltzman's film, far from capturing a dying tradition, taps into a new era of educational segregation in USA, with recent reports that conclude the nation's schools are more racially segregated now than at any other time since 1954. Which makes Prom Night in Mississippi that much more important to watch.
444suse 2 months ago
poor woman, can't see past her nose. living someone else's ideals. God has no color, but I respect their views, they come here to experience life and not matter how many life times is up to them. Mainwhile people that concure these issues move on the other advanced planets and galaxies.
silverfox53able 6 months ago
For those of us you live in America we know how embarrassing this is. America stands for equality and this type of racist crap still goes on. Any type of segregation should not exist and when parents spew this racist crap to their children it only makes it worse. Morgan Freeman you are an amazing person for standing up for the children who realize how important it is to break this tradition. And thanks to the children in this video you stood up for what's right!
Stonymypony 7 months ago
if God didn't want races to mix then he would have made the DNA incomparable, the same reason why you can't cross a Dog with a Cat...but that's not the case now is it?
skamilf 9 months ago
Woman at the front, you stupid fuck! If that's your problem then why do you feel comfortable living in the land of the Indians? Caucasians are from Europe. If that's how you feel (like you expressed it) then you should go back to Europe
donperry1 10 months ago
graduated high school in 88' we were intergrated. I had never heard of a segragated prom in mississippi. Perhaps this some timy town in north mississippi? Whites are only 50% of the student body and 15% in others in South Mississippi.
bugsaregod 10 months ago
Morgan Freeman has a earring on his right ear. That means he's gay.
PhillyLucky7 10 months ago
@PhillyLucky7 no, it doesn't. "earring on the right ear means gay" is something of the youth , not the older generation. He's an elderly man--it doesn't apply to him because he's obviously not going to aware of or interested in the current trends. And Morgan Freeman is an amazing actor and a beast so stop hatinggg
karmalotus22 6 months ago
FUCK Mississippi uS NIGGAS STAY UP NORTH!
OhhFoolish1 10 months ago
those fools better check a calender its 2011 whos cares what race you are we are all the same under the skin
7475flyersfan 11 months ago
@7475flyersfan well because different races of humans lived in different continents bone and muscle structure has adapted to suit each races habitat, this is why people that have a family history of living somewhere are defined differently. But yes as far as chromosomes we are all the same ;)
huronwarriors 8 months ago
I happen to be a big fan of Mississippi
PrinceOfMississipi 11 months ago
Clearly you're not the person to criticize intolerance. You have got to get rid of a lot of self-righteousness to qualify for that. But if it helps you to feel good about yourself to call others racist, then you do well to choose me. That meaningless term has lost it sting to my hide a long time ago. Just curious, do you also call your mother, "dude?"
carolhawn 1 year ago
white people are the epitome of racism and they invented it. Whites are fucking ugly,pink skinned mutated albino east indians. thank god by 2050 white race will be extinct.
psychoeyez 1 year ago
how does integration effect individuality? How is mixing black and white change who you are? We are all individuals because of our personalities not by the colour of our skin.
It's time to wake up and realize that.
shirz87 1 year ago
OMG!! I saw this lady on a interacial porno site!
DG3744 1 year ago
ok twiker bitch get the fuck out o here.
usnavysss 1 year ago
Race is a myth...everyone holds the genetic diversity in their dna to be any "race"
normaleitalia 1 year ago
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Why does wanting to marry in your own race make you racist?
Imogen1885 1 year ago
Who in the hell is Morgan Freeman to judge anyone? I notice he stuck to his race when he hooked up with his own granddaughter (step granddaughter, but regardless). Playing god doesn't make you god Morgan, now shut the hell up and go make another half-assed movie.
mikeman123454321 1 year ago
ignorance should be illegal
textremehill 1 year ago
@textremehill "ignorance should be illegal? Is that like prision for disagreeing with you.
carolhawn 1 year ago
@carolhawn when it comes to law, ignorance is often illegal, apart from in cases of duress, misrepresentation or unconscionable conduct. oh yes. and racism is illegal.
ilikeoootoob 1 year ago
@ilikeoootoob . If racism is illegal, then you and I and everyone else should be in prison. The law punishes acts, not thoughts. But oh, I have corrected you. Dumb me, because no way will someone like you stand for that. Just curious, what does the race of Jesus have to do with anything? To define what race a person is depends on how you define the different races. That is going to vary a lot among the 3 billion people here on earth. Sorry. but you only get to define that for yourself.
carolhawn 1 year ago
@carolhawn sorry dude, i'm not racist, so i'm not going to jail :-). you're right, the race of Jesus doesn't necessarily pertain to your comments. but can you honestly say that to be against racism is indoctrination? of course, the idea of what race is debatable - i'm not sure i subscribe to ideas of race anyway. but your comments imply an acceptance of racism - discriminating on the basis of "race". that is indefensible. in fact, you've admitted to being racist.
ilikeoootoob 1 year ago
Respond to this video.....cont..by admitting to racism, you're defining others by race - i'm not.
ilikeoootoob 1 year ago
anyone else see the correlation between religion and racism?
GUCCImontana420 1 year ago
racists are not properly educated
cutCouture 1 year ago
@cutCouture "Racist are not properly educated?" Is that like being indoctrinated into agreeing with you?
carolhawn 1 year ago
@carolhawn no. education is enlightenment and liberation. indoctrination is myopia and imprisonment. quite a fallacy there. i see you're into Jesus. just wanna point out he wasn't white.
ilikeoootoob 1 year ago
@cutCouture I agree with you. Even if they might know that the sqaure of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the sqaures of the other two sides of a right triangle, SOMEWHERE they either missed something or were taught some VERY odd things by "well-meaning older people".
shmuli9 1 year ago
Everyone's entitled to their own views- no matter how horrible they seem to you, that's their views. All I can say is that I think tolerance towards everyone is started at home. We need to set good, open-minded examples for our kids to follow.
bookscantalk 1 year ago
@bookscantalk How do you do that? Ive lived in Mississippi all my life and still today whites teach there kids to be racist. someone my be entitled to their views but that doesn't make them right. I know a white guy here now who wants to date a black girl but he says his dad would kill him if he brought her to his house. People its 2010 when will it end.
redd1911 1 year ago
2-4-6-8.... We don't want to intergrate!!!! Ahahaaa!!
Mr. Freeman your wastin your time!! Theese people can's see past their own assholes!! Stick to Hollywood and giving money to overseas! I.E. Cambodia,Haiti, Central America, Africa. Oprah already wrote the fucktards off and built a school in Africa for girl...and she's from Mississippi too!
That's why the Gov't does give a shit about that part of the country!!!
DG3744 1 year ago
2-4-6-8.... We don't want to intergrate!!!! Ahahaaa!!
Mr. Freeman your wastin your time!! Theese people can's see past their own assholes!! Stick to Hollywood and giving money to overseas! I.E. Cambodia,Haiti, Central America, Africa. Oprah already wrote the fucktards off and built a school in Africa for girl...and she's from Mississippi too!
That's why the Gov't does give a shit about that part of the country!!!
DG3744 1 year ago
OMG that lady in the begining was in an Amature interacial cuckold video on a pornosite!
DG3744 1 year ago
Why do racist people always have to use God to justify their racist or backwards views.....like really lol
arie624 1 year ago
@arie624 Because that is one to two ways for ignorant people who are loosing/ can't really back up an arguement to stop it in it's tracks. Traditional Racist use "God" in the wrong way and Modern day liberal racist call others "RACIST". These are the best ways for the far right and far left to try and stop any arguement in it's tracks today.
mrhoffame 1 year ago
Some people are just ... stupid . GOD gave us all different nationalities and different native languages for ONE reason only . Back in the biblical days some people tried to build a ladder to heaven and GOD made us all different so they couldnt communicate with each other to build the ladder . Its actually in the bible . I dont know exactly what chapter but it's in there. Racism is just a way for people to express their ignorance .. GOD made ONE race .. the HUMAN race ... dummies.
ModelTypeChiQ 1 year ago 3
@ModelTypeChiQ It's in Genesis 11, and most likely it's a parable to help understand the world in terms of God... And you're right. Apart from some VERY superficial physical stuff, humans, regadless of color or cultural group, are QUITE alike and form one speicies. (Or to put it another way, intelligent beings from another planet are quite a bit more likely to be gentically different and unable to mate with humans.)
shmuli9 1 year ago
One thing I have noticed for many years on the subject of Racism, the people documenting Racism always love to go to the South to "find and uncover" it yet there are just as many White Supremacists in the rest of the country, the Klan is alive and well in Michigan and many Skin Head groups dot the mid west as well as other locations within the country
stardust13 1 year ago
Peoples individuality have nothing to do with the color of their skin. By wanting to live in a world where everybody is white or black, makes you want to live in a world where everybody looks the same too.
souldude81 1 year ago
If you God made you an inbred redneck, then god wanted to you only be with other rednecks.
christpunchers 1 year ago 2
Idiots.
God makes us different so that we won't be all wipe out by one wave of pendemic.
And God himself didn't tell you that, ignorant people did
s990067 1 year ago
is something wrong with her eye?
WaltzeswithFoxes 1 year ago
@WaltzeswithFoxes YES!
PynshessB 1 year ago
when did god say this shit??? god didn't write the bible, some nut jobs did, dumb hicks
boomshamwow 1 year ago
"For all men to be created equal....MY ASS!
ECWExtremeMoments 1 year ago
cookies
esrapk 1 year ago
i can see the logic there, now where is my cookie ?
esrapk 1 year ago
@Egamssadab no one want to fuck woth a white person but there shouldnt be a fuckin segregation! fuck u ignorant bitch
cassie4evers 1 year ago
look at her eyes
cassie4evers 1 year ago
They say if God wanted this and that but in the bible God never says to be with one race. He realy doesnt so these idiots are making things up
LetzNeverSplit 1 year ago
@Egamssadab Are you really so fucking stupid that you don't know what causes different skin pigmentation?
whiteyvanpeebles 1 year ago
wow! these people disgust me! i think they're so stupid and uneducated to think like that. they're low-class, white trash!
madinax0 1 year ago 4
I'm Black, and my family is from Bentonia, Mississippi. We went down there for my great-granddad's funeral (R.I.P Tampa Wilson). Anyway, I don't know what part of Mississippi we went to. We went to a mall, so I'm guessing it was the closest mall to Bentonia. Anyway wherever that place was, I could just feel the racism around me. It was weird. I was only 10 at the time.
MrPandemonius1 1 year ago
You sir are an idiot.
HailBrees17 1 year ago
I wonder why youtube didn't allow my last comments. I guess they don't like my thoughts
Stucifer 2 years ago
Watch the very beginning of this. It's nice to see mullet's are still alive and well.
tbone2872 2 years ago 2
@tbone2872 I went to the beginning and pause the mullet HAHAHAHA
WaltzeswithFoxes 1 year ago
interesting...if you believe in God, you should know that the Bible says there was just ONE couple from which ALL people came...so how silly does that make racism?
hihosilverlining2 2 years ago 3
@hihosilverlining2 - Some people, not me, but some people would say that you haven't read far enough into the Bible. Google; "Curse of Cain Racism". What you'll find is that some folks believe that black skin is a sign that they have been cursed by God and therefore are no longer entitled to the rights of full human being. It was used to uphold slavery in the South.
Chiyo1967 1 year ago
I an neither Black nor Southern but I am a Bluesman and the cultural artistic contributions form Mississippi came from the African American Community From Robert Johnson to "Shakey Walter Horton" , the greatest music this country produced came from the suffering and joy of the African American Community. The whites south of the Mason Dixon Line should hang they heads in shame It has been reported that by 2030 or so, whites are going to be a minority in the country. It can't come fast enough.
jleoblues 2 years ago
ok, i'm from Mississippi and they picked the town that is still stuck in the past.......does NOT mean we are all that way. we are NOT all racist and i'm waiting for someone to say so.
punkette2009 2 years ago 11
uhuh i live in mississippi too and im black. i have no problem with anybody here. i think it's just charlestown and a couple more places. but yea, i agree with you
sgtank123 2 years ago 7
Good post. Charleston is one of the WORST areas of Mississippi. Its as ghetto as it gets, and if I had children... we wouldn't live there.
Maybe if some of you critics would move your industry to this area, create jobs, help end the desperation, which would lower the crime... it wouldn't be like this.
I'm so sick of outsiders giving Mississippi a black eye, and they have no clue as to why it is like this.
But Charleston is a very unsafe place, and its not the white folks you need to fear
Stucifer 2 years ago
If religion didn't exist, would we still have rabid racism? Probably not. Pretty scary what religious(*the hard corers) people still believe. And it defenitely isn't peace for all man kind.
whataboutoddd 2 years ago
If you were'n't raised to believe in a god, would you still want segregated proms? Probably not. So our problem here is pretty clear... religion. I'm sorry to say.
whataboutoddd 2 years ago
What if we took "religion" and the bible out of the equation, would we still have racism? That's one big question i don't think this film tackles. But i guess, one issue at a time right? ;)
whataboutoddd 2 years ago
No, if god wanted us to live separately between race we wouldn't be living on the same planet. These so-called religious people only take bits and pieces of the bible and turn it around to use them against others based on their 'own' belief. It's okay because Jesus was racist and he didn't teach people to love one another :rollseyes:
sidehop 2 years ago 4
we all take stinky poops and pee. we're all the same. all males of any race love pussy. cept the fags and dykes.
mikeandcooper 2 years ago
Nobody has the right to tell other people how to live or who they can or not associate with. Nobody!
okinawasfinest 2 years ago 5
I wish cancer on the racist white people who made those comments.
BobReidy 2 years ago
i love how these white supremacists are like yo if your white your white for real where are yall to say the world is better without segregation you want to live in a world where white people are the supreme rulers well if thats the case i would rather be black any day because i think they are more cultured then our race will ever be
onecrazdorito 2 years ago
The good thing is that these people have been so left behind by the world. They are powerless, and contribute nothing to the progress of our country. They never did, and never will because all they do is spread ignorance and poor fashion sense.
Gary922 2 years ago 2
Dr Frances Cress Welsing
youtube her
she talks about White peoples subliminal fear of being genetically anihilated (made extinct by race mixing)
Racism aka White Supremacy was born from that fear
Views that put other races down eg.
Black people r no good, into drugs, stupid inferior in everyway etc etc BW afro hair dark skin isnt as beautiful as white women etc
serves a purpose to make black people seem abhorant & as undesirable & inferior as possible-
*2 prevent whites frm dissapearing
Applebaum 2 years ago
Her Grandma said
'if we all start mixing we are all gonna be the same'
Her Grandma was RIGHT
if all non whites mix with all whites, white people will no longer exist
*basic genetics
Whites only make up 10% of the worlds population (despite medias omnipresent portrayal of whites u'd think that they wer the majority in the world)
So yes whites wouldnt exist anymore if we all mixed-
*This is the fear that propelled Europeans to colonise& enslave non whites & make laws that keep them dwn
Applebaum 2 years ago
whats wrong with everyone being mixed?
Applebaum 2 years ago
Yeah, there still r segregated proms in some RURAL areas of the south, but even most of the rural towns are not like that, just a few.
Earlier this year I was talking to a girl from Mt. Vernon, Georgia....and the high school down there still has segregated proms.
However she told me generally speaking among the young adults theres really no real racial problems and that some of the whites and blacks actually went to each others prom anyway (so its stupid for them to even have a segregated one
MacTownGaKuntryBOY 2 years ago 2
HE IS WAY TOO OLD FOR EARINGS
nauris706 2 years ago
This lady is so ignorant!!! Does she even realize thew words that are coming out of her mouth...Seriously, visualize what she is saying...
and it don't make no sense.
Same goes with these half of these comments.Nobody said that they are not proud to be black, i believe the point is coming together and interacting with other races... if you are going to school together, playing sports together, eating together, why should prom be any different....
haanelicious 2 years ago 3
It's Wonderful and i will not say all but a lot of people think like this woman! who think that whoever is not white is their slave or just simply not human! this woman needs to read the bible cause it says that Men were all created equal. So this means that we are all equal and nobody is better than anyone just because they are a different color skin.
araujo1987b 2 years ago
I can not believe your ignorance! i think that you should get out of you tube! and start doing some reading and you will learn something good that is going to keep you from writing things like the one you just wrote. look outside the box cause FYI south America, middle east and some parts of Africa like you said are NOT how they are for being BROWN or BLACK OK! Read please Read that is our only salvation! i would tell you more but i can't. Just do what i said read and you will see the truth!
araujo1987b 2 years ago
I saw that lady in an interacial porn film! NO JOKE! SERIOUSLY! She gladly took on 2 black guys and while her husband filmed it. Then she gave them money and told them not to say a word to anyone!
NO Bullshit! look on xhamster cucold wife!
DG3744 2 years ago
Everyone is mixed if you go back far enough. If you actually think you're racially pure, you're lying to yourself. And as a Christian, I find it very offensive that you would bring God into your racist arguments.
jcanno7 2 years ago
CHANGE IS HERE!!! get ova it!!!
kmoroyalty 2 years ago
I'm leaving b/c of racism! Ms. will never progress until people, like the 1's in this documentary erase the hate that is filled n their hearts, like others across Ms. This place is not 4 any1 trying 2 progress w/ and education especially if ur a minority like myself, which is why I'm leaving 2 have a better & comfortable life, people in ms. R so ignorant, & do NOT take well 2 change I can't wait 2 leave!!! It will definitely be the most rewarding satisfaction in my lif
KMELIZ21 2 years ago
Some people are so ignorant. GOD isn't simpled and prejuidce like humans. If he really exists he's surpasses those issues. If we weren't meant to mix, then why do we have the same sex organs to produce offspring together. And there's millions of people on this planet, people are going to be atttracted to one another and mix. It's inevitable.
Cyberblack78 2 years ago 5
Some people like the ones on this video are simple-minded. GOD isn't simple, like humans. If we weren't meant to mix, then why do we have the same sex organs to produce offspring together and there's millions of people of this planet, people are gonna mix, it's inevitable.
Cyberblack78 2 years ago
This is crazy! THESE people are either really WHITE or really BLACK. Most of the whites are confederate insurgents, and most of the blacks didn't get the memo that blacks are free.
Hey black people: feel free to raise your FREE asses up out of enemy territory.
If you need help understanding how backwards this looks to the rest of America, think of this: It's a documentary film on HBO on Demand.
toribaltimore 2 years ago
Morgan Freeman likes white women. One broke him and his wife up causing them to divorce after years of marriage (they were even in a car wreck together just outside Charleston), I guess he couldn't deal with the race war going on in this city.
craybmsn 2 years ago
If morgan wanted to help this town he should have built a new school as much money as the man has to have . That is what the black and white kids needed more . He never knocked on a white girls door at the age of 17 and asked for a date . If he had he would be missing in alot of movies cause that would have been one dead black man back in that time frame in mississippi . So congrats to him for footing a dance in his home town . I like the man but there are chains on the poor period any color.
superboo2u 2 years ago
I'm from Northeast MS, and I know for a fact that racism exists throughout the North part of MS. As for NE Mississippi, racism is heavy and it powers and provides a means of shelter for alot of racist people in this area.
If the whites would stop with their bigot mindset and shallowness.Then, we might all be able to get along...then again I am talking about NE Mississippi.
06blackadonis 2 years ago
Being black, you would say that. Its our fault our fault. Dude its both ours and your fault. Blaming it on white people is the uneducated thing to do. Which I'm sure you are not educated anyway.
ghostofjackie 2 years ago
Sometimes it that way, BUT when to comes to segregation it caused by whites. Blk parents don't care, they only want their kids to enjoy their high school prom. The high school promo is for eveyone , but the whites didn't want it to mix. It's like that in ALOT of towns in the South.
Cyberblack78 2 years ago
The racism in MS is completely ridiculous but it's real. Look at the interracial couple in the documentary that had to drive to the prom in separate cars. The racism is real and dangerous.
gumdrop25 2 years ago
I'm from arkansas and I went to baldwin once before and everybody was friendly blacks and whites
William82oct 2 years ago
"If the whites"
xD
So every single white person is racist and shallow.
Numner 2 years ago
yes i voted for mccain not cause he was white but because he believed in the same God George Washington did and same one I DO and yes i love black people some of best people i ever worked with where black much better than some fat lazy white ones i think HBO missed the whole point we are moving ahead and getting better color is only skin deep and all races have stupid people in them and to the dude that dont believe in God dude u going to hell anyway so who cares what u think Gotta love America
superboo2u 2 years ago
You know what I find interesting is that the most racist people first start off with "I love black or I have black friends" and THEN here come BUT. HBO didn't miss any point. The year was 2008 and you have segregated proms. What the hell kind of nonsense is that? So what Obama doesn't pray to the same God George Washington did? Please, I'm a democrat and prayer has gotten me through the most difficult times. Since when does God ask what your political affilation is?
gumdrop25 2 years ago 4
question was to the couple How where u raised to believe . being from ms. our grandparents did teach us not to mix as far as sex not cause one is better than the other but because it leads to trouble . how is she racist she let her kid attend the prom . have u ever lived in a place where 2 black men broke into a church & raped a 80 year old white woman or seen a band of red necks beat the hell out of a black boy for dating a white girl . would bet morgans own parents taught the same back then !
superboo2u 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I live in Mississippi and racism only exists in about 1% of our population. Videos like this just keep bringing up an age old problem that we (Mississippians) solved years and years ago. It was the blacks who split and wanted to have their own prom. Who cares??? Seriously its just a prom. Let them do what they want and what makes them happy. My high school's prom was not split and it was 10 years ago.
ghostofjackie 2 years ago
Blacks didn't want their own prom, ARE you F***** serious Ghostofjackie??? The high school prom is for everyone, the whites wanted to split, like it has always bee nin the South. Not wonder people think MS is racist, cause folks like you hide the truth and yes I'm from MS and a black male.
Cyberblack78 2 years ago
get real please! racism exists throughout the entire state of mississippi, I'am so ELATED morgan freeman sheded light on this subject, it was definitely needed, I live in Ms. and plan 2 leave 4 graduate school soon n cali. continued...
KMELIZ21 2 years ago
Well, I'm from Grenada, MS (about 20 minutes from Charleston) and there are some in my town that feel the same way as those in this doc about races needing to be separate. The school prom here isn't segregated, BUT there is something called a "cotillion" that's nothing but whites. I've always been told it was created as a "dance to keep the blacks out". And considering some of the attitudes of some in this area, it wouldn't surprise me one bit. Seriously, Mississippi-WAKE UP.
jmcampbell78 2 years ago 2
maybe we could change BET to W&BET
musicdudetoday 2 years ago 4
Not to parrot everybody but it boggles my mind that there are segregated proms in this day and age. It makes me wonder how far we've really come since the turmoil of the 1960s. So many fought to end this sort of thing, only to have it abided by those in power once again.
PTKilowatt 2 years ago
I loved this documentary and I love MORGAN FREEMAN! this was really sad but really interesting to everyone should try and watch it on hbo
Colormeprettyluv 2 years ago
i live in mississippi and i'm not racist how bout yall come down here and see how many of us aren't racist and yes i do agree with the second dude but i'm not racist
IWISH134 2 years ago 2
no, you're just ignorant...but it's not your fault you're from mississippi...it's your inbred ancestry. but no, you're not racist
rickimlan 2 years ago
I wonder how they feel now that we have a President who had a black father and a white mother? Heck they probably voted for McCain anyway.
afannell 2 years ago 5
I find it so funny that some people talk about how enlightened and progressive it is that Obama has a white mother and a black father.
The great majority of black/white mixed couples are between a black man and a white woman. Now how do you think black women feel that a certain percentage of black men would rather date an obese white woman over a black woman? I bet they don't like it very much.
morbie5 2 years ago
Lmao, stupid idiots we all looked the same at one point lol
keys33 2 years ago 4
This comment has received too many negative votes show
OOOHH AMERICANS, AMERICANS....the land of the idiots and stupid....
elsoda 2 years ago
i'm an american, and i agree with you
with the way things are going and with this ignorance we aren't getting smater we are getting stupider with each rachial slur we throw
ventosage 2 years ago 2
We are the greatest country on the face of the Earth.
FFLOVER525 2 years ago
i live in mississippi and this ignorant couple look like a couple of meth heads. this state is already the butt of every stupid, redneck, religious freak joke out there. but honestly i had no idea there were still segregated proms. that's just sad. i'm not saying religious people are racist, but if you're a racist chances are you're religious too. and yes, i'm an atheist, liberal, non racist born and raised and still living in mississippi.....how the hell did that happen?! LOL
zenrau 2 years ago 7
This is so cute people talking about their imaginary friend, so harmless nothing bad can come from that.
BonScottAC 2 years ago
I fuckin love your comment! Lol.
Ellalla 2 years ago
people forget that racism is your choice, being racist is just as wrong as trying to change some ones views on it.
Jcashrulez 2 years ago
It's not wrong to try to change peoples views on racism. Racism holds us down as a society, it squelches thought and suppresses opportunity. It hurts everyone who is inundated by its polluting waters. People who are racist deprive others the right to excel on their own merits while simultaneously denying themselves the benefit of knowing another human being, their ideas, and gaining from their experiences.
SunSunSuperFun 2 years ago 32
Amen to that.
swtg 2 years ago
omg Morgan Freeman. was not expecting that
naffychav 2 years ago 6
he was born in mississippi and still lives here =)
zenrau 2 years ago 5
Yeah :) ive driven by his house and it is big!..i thought it was his..lol..thats what my parents told me.. :))
bensonlilpat 2 years ago
These people are ridiculous, in order to break the cycle it has to start with them! Like what someone said from the NAACP on CNN to paraphrase, "people say we're living in a post racism world, but we're still not over racism."
cuzitsnecessary 2 years ago 11
god didnt make me my parents did , god gives you your soul not your body
MixtleedemonEsquivel 2 years ago
i think he hates gays too. or was that some one else???
tsb84supra 2 years ago
Damn HBO, whoever your video engineer is certainly is familiar with how YouTube converts video files to its particular format.
This is the best quality clip, in terms of audio and video, I've seen running that's not 720p on this site. Props to your video engineer.
DonkeyFist 2 years ago 3
wow....I never knew god is a racist?
ANDERTHALRADIO 2 years ago 15
haha good one
marveloushop 2 years ago
Um last time I checked humans were made the same to start with...in Africa lol.
biggerflexible 2 years ago 26