Apr 23
Turner County High School in Ashburn, Georgia had its first racially integrated prom—on Saturday.
That’s last Saturday. As in, 2007.
But there was still a separate whites-only prom. Baby steps, I guess.
May 09
Republican Strom Thurmond, who espoused racial segregation, had a mixed-race daughter.
Republican mayor of Spokane James West opposed gay rights, but enjoyed gay rites, trawling Internet chat rooms to find male lovers. He may also have molested a few children, but is still denying that.
Dec 05
A scientific investigation discovered that Jews are genetically so close to other Middle Eastern racial groups that there is absolutely no basis for defining Jewishness on the basis of genetic difference or matriarchal descent. Jews and Palestinians are racially the same. So far, so painfully obvious to everyone except the people concerned.
However, the journal which published the study has faced such howls of protest from outraged Jews that it has actually written to subscribers asking them to tear out the article from their copies and destroy it.