Filed by Trevor at 12:03 am under Racism, Social Issues

Consider, if you will, the origin of the following quote:

Adkinson’s sister, Mindy Bryan, attended a segregated prom in 2001.

“There was not anybody that I can remember that was black,” she said. “The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It’s nothing racial at all.”

An article from the Onion, perhaps? Maybe even a witty non sequitur from Bill Maher or Margaret Cho? Not so much. Had this been excerpted from a piece of satirical journalism I would have laughed my ass off, but the fact that the speaker was deadly serious absolutely scares the crap out of me. Just call me naive for thinking that segregation was the thing for the history books; leave it to South Georgia to keep our good old-fashioned traditional American values alive. Boy, just wait for when the women’s liberation movement hits Turner County. That’ll sure be something, won’t it? Anyone want to help me put together care packages of Ortho Tri-Cyclen and the collected works of Betty Friedan just to speed up the process?

Ever wanted to know who on earth still thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11? These people. Consider the source and shudder.