For those who did not see my brothers link, here is an article about a racist judge in Louisiana. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/16/louisiana-bardwell-interracial-marriage-licence .
It is people like this who justify us in calling people like Maxine Waters who has attacked Ward Connely for being married to a white woman as racist.
What other logic could this guy use. Let us see, since Mormons are a smaller minority in Louisiana than children with one black and one white parent, and they at least in northern Louisiana are hated by most people, should this guy exclude Mormons from marrying at all?
Beyond this, if he thinks refusing people a marriage license will keep them from having kids, he is truly out of touch.
I might also cite a great group of black men with white wives, from Clarence Thomas to Jesse Thomas and from Thurl Bailey to Alex Boye. Then there is Larry Caulford, the well praised hometeacher of one of our speakers at my ward yesterday. Brother Caulfor was originally the wife's hometeacher, the man who was our speaker was not a member, but due to Brother Caulford's dilligence and boldness, the man who spoke to us met with the missionaries and got baptized. Brother Caulford is of European descent, but his wife is an African-American.
Of course, some of the most self-assured liberals I have known, such as Adrienne Allard, my high school quiz bowl coach who despised Rush Limbaugh, have also been ardent opponants of inter-racial marriage. She may have seen Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, but her thought processes were still those of the girls parents at the start of the movie.
The fact that this man was fired for his actions is encoraging. The fact that this was his apparently his fourth denial of marriage is disturbing, and the fact that he was doing it in Louisiana, a state with a long history of inter-racial mingling, even if they often made such unions illegal, the state that produced Mr. Plessy who had to turn himself in for violating the railroad segregation laws because he only had 1/8th African-Ancestry and looked to be a man of European descent so well, that if his goal had been to benefit from the better services in the "white" cars, he could have done it.
Monday, October 26, 2009
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This guys arguments are all the more bizarre in light of the election of Barak Obama as president of the United States.
Barak Obmama's mother is of European ancestry. Yet no one ever seems to speak of him as other than the first African-American president of the United States.
I have not managed yet to get together a group of African-Amercians who had slave ancestors to launch a protest in which they chant "Obama, just because your ancestors kept our ancestors as slaves, does not mean we will let you enslave us".
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