Cinco De Mayo has come and gone and you probably have forgotten all about it, unless you are hung over. After my small rant on Cinco de Mayo I wondered what how I could follow up the chastisement a lot of Americans deserve for their racial attitudes and unfortunately I have found it today.
We say farewell to Mildred Loving today. This is a woman who didn’t want to be a hero, only a bride. However with her fight for racial equality in the arena of marriage made her a hero many times over. Her challenge and win in the Supreme Court overturned all the laws that prohibited interracial marriage. For that a bride is a hero.
I may be just a white guy married to a white woman. Before my nuptials there were black, Hispanic, Oriental, Indian, and Palestinian women in my life and sometimes in my bed. It is because of Mildred and Richard Loving that I could have gone anywhere in this country and legally married any of them. It was because of that couple married before my birth that my attitude on such things was greatly different than they were a generation before me. I owe them a debt for all the good times I shared with those women.
For all those who didn’t feel chastised enough by my lecture yesterday take a moment to think of all the men and women of another race that make you stiff or get panties wet while fantasizing and thank Mildred Loving for removing the legal barriers to you being with them. Also take a moment and think about how in forty years we haven’t come far enough to allow gays people can marry the person they love.
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Interesting read. I honestly had no idea who Mildred Loving was prior to reading this.
I find it difficult to imagine a time where people were not free to pursue their right to marry based on race. It’s disgusting, just as denying homosexuals the right to marry is disgusting.
People need to learn to stay out of each others lives and business, and stop trying to get our government to infringe on minorities rights based on your bigoted assessments.
My feelings are that equality is always correct. There are no ifs or buts. If I have the right to do something, you should have the same right to do that something. Whether it be getting a job, getting married, buying a home, anything. Equality is equality no matter what. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white, Asian, homosexual, a eunuch; it doesn’t the change the fact that equal is equal, no matter what.
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Well Said…