Richard & Mildred Loving

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Marie5656

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I recently watched the movie based on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, the bi-racial couple from Virginia who were arrested 5 days after their 1959 wedding for breaking the law. The law being that their marriage was illegal because he was white and she was black. The film begins with the statement from a "preacher" I think, who basically is saying that God put the races on different continents on purpose because HE did not want them to mix. I have heard that argument before, in the name of religion.
They were pretty much forced to move from Virginia because of their illegal marriage. I think there were at least 20 or more states that banned interracial marriages.
It was not just black and white...it was Asians and any other people of color inter marrying. I just cannot believe that in our own lifetime this shit (sorry) had to happen to people.
It went all the way to the supreme court in the late 60s .
Here is a link to their story: http://people.com/movies/richard-mildred-loving-real-story/
 

I forgot about this movie so thanks for the reminder. It really is hard to believe that things like this did happen our lifetime :(
 
I never heard of this movie and now I'd really like to watch it. I do come from a bi-racial family (Japanese-Caucasian) but I don't believe that it's any kind of the same discrimination as Black-White families experienced. (And I never knew it was Illegal.) I can't think of once when I felt discrimination (but also I'm kind of an oblivious kind of person, so I could have missed it). And also I look all over like my mom and don't look at all Asian. Even though we were military we've always lived in the local community. Our neighbors in Georgia were Southern Baptists, and they took me and my brother to their church and it was okay with my dad, who is actually Buddhist. And we even got baptized as Southern Baptists, dunked and all. And it's okay even though now I know the difference between conservative and liberal Christian denominations and I'm as far from being a conservative Southern Baptist as one could get. And I'm fine with having been being baptized at that church. Baptism is Baptism, and so what. I have to admit though, that being raised with such diverse beliefs in a family, it can maybe be confusing for the children. But I never felt confused at all. I just rolled it into my worldview of inclusiveness, and I'm happy and grateful for that, and wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

And the movie, by the way, is titled "Loving".
 
I saw this movie last summer, it was really mindboggling. It also kinda 'hit home,' because my grandparents managed to 'buck the laws' and married anyway. Oklahoma had among the strictest laws on this subject, and remained so until the Loving decision.

What continues to creep me out, though, is many many people believe the idiotic remarks that came from the judge actually came from the Bible.
 
applecruncher said:
Amazing how some "Christians" use the Bible (or their interpretation of it) as a way to justify racism and hatred. If it weren't so disgusting it would be laughable.
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I am going to go OT in my own thread. A friend shared this on Facebook. Reminds us, again that this is OUR generation. This woman is younger than me.


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It's amazing how much has changed. I can remember separate bathrooms and water fountains. This was before I learned to read and I had to ask my mother which one to use.
 

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