Prom Night in Mississippi

stares were just stares, the comments were just words. Social justice ran in the teaching of my family. We were taught and educated on the cruelty our ancestors endured from slavery, to Jim crow to the new Jim crow. Watching movies like, Roots, Mississippi Burning, and Panther allowed my to really visual the pain felt in black families. On top the injustice black communities faced everyday, black women and queer folk have it just as bad. Everything that I did or was taught was centered around…

a white man, he has to hide his true self through drinking for people to be less harsh on his dating life. Father of white daughter from the film Prom Night in Mississippi comments on her black boyfriend; “She's never been on a date with him. That's my choice. It's not hers, because I have a little control still. I'm still the parent” (qtd. in Prom Night n.pag.) Although in this situation the daughter is not hiding from the fact that she is in a interracial relationship she still has to face…