Posted on 11/13/2008 4:46:00 PM PST by SJackson
Black, white or neither? The mixed race dilemma
Barack Obama has identified himself as a ‘mutt'. We, too, should acknowledge our fastest-growing ethnic minority
In America in the spring of this year, 2008, a widow named Mildred Dolores Loving died at the age of 67. Let me hand the story over to the late Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Earl Warren, writing in 1967.
“In June 1958,” Warren explained, “two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a negro woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia pursuant to its laws.” But not pursuant to the laws of their native Virginia. When they returned to the state and set up home in Caroline County, a Virginia grand jury indicted them for violating the local ban on interracial marriages.
“On January 6, 1959,” Warren continued, “the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced to one year in jail; however, the trial judge suspended the sentence for a period of 25 years on the condition that the Lovings leave the State and not return to Virginia together for 25 years. He stated in an opinion that: ‘Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix'.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Probably Aryan, since he’s the leader of the new National Socialist Party.
Pity he was wrong.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Thus further confirming the left’s obsession about race.
Known as “Pardos” in Brazil, where they comprise 40% of the population.
1. Although the judge invoked the name of God, it's not clear that his ideas came out of the Bible.
2. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not sure that the Bible is considered an acceptable form of court precedent.
3. Doesn't it bother you to be contributing to a stereotype that your state is probably trying to overcome.?
The only "race mixing" the Bible prohibits is between Israelites and non-Israelites.
I remember the times and culture against interracial marriage, but I don't recall a Biblical prohibition against same. And neither, it appears, does our bishop or archbishop.
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True.
Cushites were OK. :>)
Another cutting edge episode of Star Trek comments on the absurdity of Chief Justless Earl Warren.
Looks like “Saint Francis, the Sissy.”
Though what America was founded on, that's not a sentiment that could be used to political advantage.
German, English, Choctaw, not sure there are any voting blocs there, BHO would have you make up that missing fourth ancestor. Someone from Kansas or Kenya would be nice, it's a K year.
Suspect most US families that have been here more than 150 years are mutt, containing people who were considered low status or undesirable somewhere. Within my extended family, we include English, highland Scots, lowland Scots, Welsh, Irish, Swede, Laplander, Choctaw, Cherokee, German, French, Slovakian, Jewish, and Japanese, Metis, and probably Melungeon. There have been circus performers, indentured servants, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, at least one bank robber, at least one moonshiner, career army, preachers, farmers, weavers, slaveowners, tenant farmers, iron masters, muscians and post masters.
There are none of us pure...somewhere, somehow, some of us had ancestors in groups that were considered less desirable and suffered persecution.
This is the human experience.
Actually, I do have a Kansas connection. I also have a "grapes of wrath" connection. My maternal grandparents migrated from Oklahoma to California during the dustbowl. I grew up with the "make do, or do without" motto.
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