May 14, 2008 6:20 PM
Law students are always amused that the case that ended laws against Whites and Non-Whites marrying has the serendipitous name of Loving v. Virginia.
A cute name for a Supreme Court decision that ended laws that restricted love to persons of one's own color.
Mrs. Loving died last month, but when I was a boy, she and her White husband were arrested for doing what their names implied, for loving, or more specifically for marrying against the ancient mores of their state.
As the Lovings told reporters years ago, they didn't marry to advance civil rights. They married because they were in love.
Yes Virginia, you once tried to imprison Loving.
You know you have a point...my marriage is an interracial marriage, but I never even think about it.
A quick story....there was this guy that was a friend of a friend that would hang out with us every so often. He once went on a tirade about how he was completely against interracial marriage. At the time I was engaged to my husband who is Native American. When I pointed out to this guy that my marriage was indeed going to be an interracial marriage, he replied by saying "oh it doesn't count because he looks white."
Needless to say that's the last I ever saw of him.
By Lisa Votino-Tarrant May 14, 2008 07:39 PM
Just thought i'd share my thoughts... Many people do not realize that "Hispanic" is an ethnic term and not a racial term... hence, one might be Hispanic and be in an interracial marriage if the person is a Afro Cuban or Afro-Dominican and is married to a Dominican or Cuban of Caucasian descent... does this make sense? Hence, if a Hispanic of European descent, or of the white race, this would not constitute an '
interracial marriage'.. this seems to throw people off, they tend to classify people in categories that they feel most comfortable in, by the way someone looks, talks, acts, or who they "hang out" with.
There's a funny thing about "interracial" marriages... people tend to make up their own rules according to what they feel most comfortable with.
thank goodness we have moved away from the ridiculous idea that "interracial" marriage should be punished or outlawed. who is the government to tell someone who to fall in love with?
i dream of a day when we will finally look at ourselves as ONE HUMAN RACE...
By Diana Gabriele May 21, 2008 07:20 PM