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Prom 2008: Trendy or Flimsy?

What is really going on with this generation today? Have they lost their minds?! I do not understand how high school staff & parents allow these students to wear such inappropriate things to prom!! Please explain to me how one gets away with wearing a jogging suit & tennis shoes to a prom? How does one get away with wearing dresses revealing your belly or showing off too much cleavage or wearing so-called "booty shorts"? I'm sure many of you saw the excerpt on CNN news a while back about the high school student in the gold dress that was turned away from her prom because of her dress. I was listening to a radio show that same day, and quite a few high school students were calling in saying how embarrassed they were for the girl in the dress. When I was in high school (which wasn't that long ago), students would be turned around & sent home if they were to show up in something too revealing or inappropriate! I understand that every teenager wants to be dif

Observations of Talk Show Taping

Observations from Audience Perspective: 1. Waiting! Waiting! & more waiting! 2. Taping did not start on time 3. Audience was 100% black 4. Snacks were provided (empty calorie / all junk food) Chips Sodas Water ( Not in Bottle form) / self-serve from water cooler (what if it was tap water? What if many audience members do not drink tap water?) Candy (Chocolate candy bars, twizzlers, mints, etc...) (What if audience members preferred not to eat junk food?) What if we're actually being taped while waiting? (waited for about an hour and a half before beginning the actual taping of the show) Observations from Talk Show Crew's Perspective: 1. Let's see how many black folk show up on time. 2. Let's see how many of them become irate after waiting so long. 3. Let's see how black folk interact with one another in a controlled environment. 4. Let's feed the monkeys bananas ( no other fruit was served ). 5. Let's see how many choose water over soda.