You’ve lost that Loving feeling
posted by Kaimipono D. Wenger
An incredible story in today’s news:
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
It’s 2009, the Obama era, and some folks (a JP!) still haven’t gotten the memo on Loving v. Virginia. Mind-boggling.
October 15, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Tags: Civil Rights, Loving v. Virginia, marriage, Race
Posted in: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
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Knowledge of Jim Crow events: A quick, informal survey
posted by Kaimipono D. Wenger
I’m curious as to what level of knowledge people have of some important Jim Crow events. If you’ve got five minutes, please make a comment, to fill this out this brief, completely unscientific survey. Feel free to do so anonymously or pseudonymously. I’m not trying to embarrass anyone, I just wonder to what extent certain events are known or unknown, and this is enough to give me some general sense. Read the rest of this post »
May 18, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Tags: Civil Rights, jim crow, Race, survey
Posted in: Civil Rights, Race
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