By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--April 8, 2010
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Senior prom fell far short of the rite of passage Constance McMillen was hoping for when she began a legal battle to challenge a ban on same-sex dates. The 18-year-old lesbian student said Tuesday she was one of only seven students to show up at a private event chaperoned by school officials last Friday night. She said the rest of her peers went to another private event where she wasn’t invited.Constance McMillen really thought her whole senior class would reward her after her chosen actions made a national mockery of the school and town?
“It was not the prom I imagined,” she said Tuesday. “It really hurts my feelings. These are still people who I’ve gone through school with, even teachers who loved me before this all started. I’ve never been a bad student and I don’t feel like I deserve to be put through this.”It was all about her feelings in the first place; not about how her feelings would make everyone else feel. She expected her fellow students to celebrate her statement by force, but when people are forced to endure something, it seldom ends pretty. Let’s hope Constance McMillen retains this lesson.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight