Posted on 05/05/2008 7:36:54 AM PDT by hepatoma
Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.
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In a rare interview with The Associated Press last June, Loving said she wasn't trying to change history — she was just a girl who once fell in love with a boy.
"It wasn't my doing," Loving said. "It was God's work."
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“”It wasn’t my doing,” Loving said. “It was God’s work.””
Indeed. Rest in peace, Ms. Loving.
What a bold lady. Even today, there are some freaks out there who look down on interracial marriage, I can’t imagine what it was like back when she was fighting for this.
One must sample a wide array of gastronomical palate pleasures to gain a further appreciation of G-d's handiwork.
That was back when marriage was important to all races. Today, I’m more concerned with interracial rapes and violent crimes. Guess who the perps are?
Loving said she wasn’t trying to change history — she was just a girl who once fell in love with a boy.
Rest in peace dear lady.
Unfortunately I can predict that the depraved perverts will take this occasion to try and convince everyone that they face this same problem. Just watch.
Criminals.
what did I win?
+1
I don't think I ever realized that.
“That was back when marriage was important to all races. Today, I’m more concerned with interracial rapes and violent crimes. Guess who the perps are?”
blacks, whites, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Turkish, Arabs, Indians. I’m sure I missed a few others.
It may become illegal again.
In NC when I lived there, it was illegal for whites to adopt black children. The Democrats refused to allow it.
Glad she had a happy life and all, but not sure I agree with the idea that states’ rights to determine who could marry should have been taken away and federalized by yet another activist Supreme Court decision. Her case was was a stepping stone to Roe and others like it.
More concerned than with, say, intraracial rapes and violent crimes?
“Glad she had a happy life and all, but not sure I agree with the idea that states’ rights to determine who could marry should have been taken away and federalized by yet another activist Supreme Court decision.”
Keep in mind, had it not been for the “activist” Supreme Court, Al Gore may have been our President.
Interestingly enough, these anti-miscegenation laws were absent in the French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies, but were present in nearly all of the former English colonies (a legacy of the different types of colonialism). It also helps that the Catholic Church NEVER banned interracial marriage, and even encouraged it in the Spanish colonies (due to the lack of white females at the time).
14th Amendment, something the “States Rahts” crowd conveniently forgets.
One could argue that the foregoing powers and equal application clauses of the US Constitution do make this a federal power.
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