Yesterday was Loving Day, the 39th anniversary of Loving vs. Virginia, which made it illegal to restrict interracial couples in the United States. Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving were the couple behind the fight to give marriage rights to all interracial couples involving one white partner (a little known fact is that many of the states that prohibited a couple like Mildred and Richard from marrying would have had no problem with an Asian man and a black woman marrying. Similar to the one-drop rule, anti-miscegenation laws were meant to keep power and ownership of land and property within the white population. Once whites married people of color, the power would potentially be distributed/shared with spouses and mixed children). How long do you think it would have taken for these laws to be overturned if left up to the public? Or laws keeping schools separate? Think about that the next time some a**hole starts mouthing off about activist judges.
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