Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Wampum: If you weren't white, you were black...

Wampum: If you weren't white, you were black...: "In modern 'post-racial' America, it is often overlooked that earlier racist laws were not aimed only at African Americans. Anti-miscegeny laws covered marriage between all races, a fact which the NYTimes did not overlook in their obituary of Mildred Loving, whose landmark case, Loving v. Virginia, overturned the laws against racial intermarriage in 17 states in 1967:"

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