READ:
Righteous Anger
WATCH:
Politicians... *shake head sadly*
Ummmm... did she just say that?
READ:
Haven't I seen this somewhere before?
No, really... it's on the tip of my tongue...
Now, I remember...
In the US, miscegenation laws that restricted marriages on the basis of race were once enforced in most states. For example:
In the 1660s, Maryland became the first colony to prohibit interracial
marriages.
By 1750, all the southern colonies as well as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania made interracial marriages illegal. 1 For example, Virginia had a law stating that "All marriages between a white person and a coloured person shall be absolutely void without any decree of divorce or other legal process." (Code Ann. A7 20-57)
During the 1950s, half of the states still had laws prohibiting interracial
marriage.
By the early 1960's at least 41 states had enacted anti-miscegenation
statutes at one time.
In Maryland, when slavery was introduced in 1664, "the law also prohibited marriages between white women and black men.... between 1935 and 1967, the law was extended to forbid marriage between Malaysians with blacks and whites. The law was finally repealed in 1967.
The first court to overturn an anti-miscegenation law was, predictably, the
California Supreme Court in 1948.
By 1967, 16 states still had anti-miscegenation laws in place.
"In case after case, legislation prohibiting racial inter-marriage was justified as unbending tradition rooting in received natural law."
For example, in 1869, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that:
"...moral or social equality between the different races...does not in fact exist, and never can. The God of nature made it otherwise, and no human law can produce it, and no human tribunal can enforce it. There are gradations and classes throughout the universe. From the tallest archangel in Heaven, down to the meanest reptile on earth, moral and social inequalities exist, and must continue to exist throughout all eternity."
Really? I mean, now, come on... REALLY???
A rose by any other name... Love comes in many shapes and sizes. There is no true definition of love, it means something different to each and every one of us.
Do you know which animals have the greatest chance of survival? It's not the prettiest, or the fastest, not the tallest or even the smartest. No, it is the being that readily accepts change and is able to act accordingly.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Why are so many people unable to accept change? Why do they have to be so rigid, even when the 'change' has nothing to do with them personally? Why can't society learn from the past? Their errors? And the pain inflicted by wanton judgements?
