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Little Rock Central High:50 Years Later, a look at how the first intergrated school in the U.S. is getting along today, premiering on HBO on Sep. 25 at 8 p.m.

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[4everclairebear]

if u r black lets say who do u normally eat lunch w/? im guessing ur friends that r black 4 the most part. if u r white who do u eat lunch w/? im also guessing ur friends that r white 4 the most part. its not that we r trying 2b segregated its just that u eat lunch or hang around people like urself. idk y people think we r. like 1 of the other commenter said, just spend a day @ LRCH. we ARNT segregated. not all the black kids sit inside not all r outside, same w/ white kids.

[dannybOMFG]

ok yeah im a sophomore there and i can say its not segregated im in pre-ap and ap classes that have many black ppl in them and they are some of my best friends!! i suggest you spend at least a day at central so you don't jump to conclusions from a biased documentary

[Schizo42]

@kloudd I love how people call black people African Americans, when they were obviously born in America and not Africa. We're all Americans people. Most black Americans weren't born in Africa, and I most certainly was not born in Caucasia.

[Schizo42]

@ladyrt23 The neighborhoods around the school went into poverty and crime because the government did nothing about it, and it was allowed to fall. You can't put that on a high school I know for a fact, however, that the houses in the immediate area of Central all went under renovation in light of the 50th anniversary. This was filmed a year before. Some of those boarded up houses are no longer that way.

[Schizo42]

@ladyrt23 It's not the same. As a student at the time, this documentary angered me. It didn't take the time to look into the programs. I was an avid band member, and some of my best friends were black, but I didn't hang out with them exclusively. I hung out with people of all races. (I ran out of space, so I'm going to continue on another post.)

[fireant4000]

@kloudd so? i belive she was trying to be nice...

[ErintheSamurai]

Um, I'm attending this school, and it isn't really segregated. You hang out with people you get along with, and it isn't really that racist around here anymore. I'm white, yeah, but I have friends of almost every race. I have Muslim friends, Indian friends, black friends, Hispanic friends, Asian friends; Hell, one of my best friends is Chilean. This documentary is making it sound like central hasn't come ANYWHERE in the past 50(54 now) years, but it really has...

[dlberry4]

Yeah I can believe that cuz sometimes they try to make things seem different than what it really is.

[kloudd]

i love how that girl calls white people caucasians and black people blacks

[ladyrt23]

I absolutely love watching HBO docunmentaries. However, I must say that I was disturbed at watching this one. 50 years ago at this time, 9 black students needed the national guards to enter Central High. Fifty years later, the school remains segregated. Racism will never die. However, I was so shocked at the open hatred towards black people. These are the same cats that sing hymns in their Southern Baptist Church and remain to hate someone because of their skin.