Film Analysis: The Prom Night In Mississippi

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The Prom Night in Mississippi was an extraordinary documentary, which encompassed the racial and discriminative views and actions from a small community and school district from the early 2000s. While watching the video multiple emotions and thoughts rushed through my head, however what stuck out to me the most was how recent this document took place, and how severe certain individuals where to possessing certain racial qualities. From only nine years ago students where still experiencing racial discrimination, in which individuals fought so hard for to be solemnly free in the United States. In fact to have an interracial school district that thought it was “okay” or politically right to have a segregated prom in 2008 blows my mind. Especially when the school district had superior faculty members who were interracial to multiple sport teams. Nonetheless, even when a school district possessed so many positive biracial qualities there was still a major separation and unequal treatment between black and white students. …show more content…

From parents supporting having separate proms, to police officers forming alliances against black students, and treating white students with higher respect is extremely inappropriate and only causing more harm on the society and students. In fact, I believe when a higher authority such as parents or police offers hold certain views, these views are then enriched and forced upon other lower citizens, to follow or believe in, explaining why some students did not want to attend the interracial prom, to faculty members enforcing higher security restrictions for individuals who were apart of the “black

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