Posted on 06/12/2017 2:57:17 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving's landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of facing discrimination, disapproval and sometimes outright hostility from their fellow Americans.
Although the racist laws against mixed marriages are gone, several interracial couples said in interviews they still get nasty looks, insults and sometimes even violence when people find out about their relationships.
"I have not yet counseled an interracial wedding where someone didn't have a problem on the bride's or the groom's side," said the Rev. Kimberly D. Lucas of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
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Good afternoon.
I’ll give you one of the violent ones.
I believe it was in 1988. We were in St. Pete at the Crab Shack. We went in and sat down. After about 10 minutes we noticed everyone else was being served, and we didn’t get water or a menu.
So I went to the bar to get a menu and the bartender said, we don’t serve your kind here.
I did a double take because I didn’t believe what I had heard. I asked him to repeat it and before he got to, “your kind” I punched him the face and knocked him out.
Since we were probably outnumbered we left in a hurry.
The Crab Shack has changed hands a few times but the First lady will not go back there.
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“The Marxist love this.”
Love what?
I haven’t experienced it. My wife (Singapore Chinese) gets jealousy directed at her, sometimes - but since it most often comes from women who outweigh her by 80 pounds I think it isn’t entirely racial. :)
Perfect response.
I guess you pay your money and take your chances.
Wrong, it would just be a different lifestyle.
((((If a guy married his right hand, then, one day, used his left, would that be adultery???))))
I would get a divorce but I don’t want to cut off my right hand...separation is a bitch
LOL! That’s what I know about the South :-)
LOL...
I recently attended the funeral of one of the matriarchs of a family which has been ‘mixed’ for three or four generations. Some people looked very White, some very Black; and a lot of them looked sort of in-between. In the Church, everyone was ONE.
This happens to have been an educated, professional family, but there are many other families like this, of all socio-economic classes. These families represent a very interesting ‘subculture’ in the US. I felt privileged to be there and to be able to experience their interaction, and what it says about America.
In my experience, these people tend to be very Christian, and very patriotic.
GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to go.....
Wife is Japanese. I come from a town of ~800. Married over 20 years and no one has ever said a thing to me or my wife about race in the States.
My family was all onboard. Her mom was against it, but only till the grandkids came...to make it up to me she had me give her sister away at her sisters wedding. (Dad passed years earlier).
In law grumble stuff same as for any family otherwise. I think this is mostly hogwash.
I am part Ani Yun Wiya (Cherokee to white people).
I had kids in high school back in the 60’s called me “Chief” a lot...I got tired of it and finally told one the next time everyone would call him “toothless”....
It stopped...
Interracial marriage is positive as an independent liberty.
It is negative as a collectivist weapon.
One of the best posts that I’ve seen here.
Our Founders were concerned about the Individual, and his/her longing for Liberty. Jesus was concerned about the same thing.
But many people don’t seem to understand that Jesus was speaking to political philosophy as much as to ‘religion’ or spiritual philosophy - exactly as our Founders were, when they invoked the Creator.
The teachings of Jesus were part of the foundation of our Nation; and it wasn’t just because of how his teachings related to Religion.
You live in Florida correct? Isn't Florida a bit more multicultural than the rest of the south?
I take you are African American and your wife is of another background.
I would have thought by 1988 that wouldn't been considered a big deal.
But then 1988 is when my historical perspective starts since that is the year I was born.
Can't imagine why that could be Mr. Jeeves ;)
The First lady is of African American descent, and yes we live in FL. As you know racist can live anywhere, and St. Pete is no exception.
Now overt and covert racism has definitely been on the decline. 1988 was a long time ago, although if you travel the interior of FL there are still small pockets that exist.
Heck, back in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s the Klan still existed, and being Catholic in a small town like Clewiston was difficult to say the least.
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William Buckley had a column on this maybe 20 years ago where he deftly questioned liberal media assumptions about the even-then emerging “hands up don't shoot” narrative.
Buckley, best I can remember, asked why any white person that wants to have kids would marry a black person knowing the supposed racist nature of America?
Buckley noted that if your son is perceived to be black he would certainly be harassed by police. (Now he would add arrested while driving black or just simply shot down by police while attempting to walk down the street.) The black child, Buckley noted, would be discriminated against at school, expelled more often, and unable to get a good education. He would face housing discrimination. He would face employment discrimination. He would face less medical care and earlier death. He would not be able to find a friendly church.
If it was bad then, it is worse today judging from stories in the popular media, statements from Hollywood and Democrat Party operatives.
As Buckley asked, if things are so bad why do mixed couples who want to have children get married and put young children through all that?
where someone didn’t have a problem on the bride’s or the groom’s side,” said the Rev. Kimberly D. Lucas
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