(For the record, Alabama did not formally repeal its laws against interracial marriage until 2000.)
Being a native, this does not in any way surprise me. I knew of only one interracial couple when I still lived there, in 1988. I worked with the woman, and the owners of the tiny little company were very cold toward her after they found out. Though they couldn't find any legal reason to fire her, neither of us doubted they were looking for one.
The Loving story is astounding, and the judge's words make my guts boil. I With our increasingly mixed-race society, somewhere down the road we'll all finally look the same because we'll all have intermixed for so long. And that's a good thing.
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Date: 2008-10-02 09:49 pm (UTC)Being a native, this does not in any way surprise me. I knew of only one interracial couple when I still lived there, in 1988. I worked with the woman, and the owners of the tiny little company were very cold toward her after they found out. Though they couldn't find any legal reason to fire her, neither of us doubted they were looking for one.
The Loving story is astounding, and the judge's words make my guts boil. I With our increasingly mixed-race society, somewhere down the road we'll all finally look the same because we'll all have intermixed for so long. And that's a good thing.