Free To Be
It's mind blowing to me that in the late sixties, interracial marriage was against the law in sixteen states. Then again, when I sometimes walk down the street with my family and feel stares, the late sixties don't seem so far away.
“When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.” --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1958.
I'm dying to see the photographic exhibit by Grey Villet, who documented the story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving in the 1960s.
Forty-five years ago, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage. Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, a woman of African American and Native American descent, who had been arrested for miscegenation nine...
An HBO Documentary on the couple and their fight airs on Valentine's Day.
I hope that forty five years from now, people will find it mind blowing and unbelievable that gay marriage was once prohibited, too.
3 comments:
I think it's so insanely full of cosmic justice that their name was Loving. I posted on this the other day because as I plan my wedding with so much love in my heart, I read this article and thought, if there was a law that said I couldn't marry the man I'm marrying because of his brown complexion and my pale, freckled complexion, I'd want to scream at anyone and everyone--oh and the government, that love has nothing to do with anything else but love. Ever. P.s. And yes, it is weird and wrong when people give you a look when you're walking down the street with each other, but when it's us, I look at that person right back with a smile because all I'm thinking is, jealous much?:)
I can't wait to see the documentary. They were such a beautiful couple, a simple and strong couple.
Yes, like you I hope that our next generations will find it silly that gay marriage was ever controversial.
@Maddy, I LOVE this comment. Such a brilliant and positive way of looking at things.
@MissA, you're right--and I think simple and strong is underrated.
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