I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cars in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.
@StillIRise1963 I am old enough to remember being on a school trip bus to the old Honolulu Zoo, and seeing a touristy couple holding hands walking down Kalaukaua Avenue. A white girl from the American South who transferred in, loudly announced to our busload of non-white mixed race local kids that a Black man and a white woman together was an abomination against God's law and the laws of man. Miscegenation was wrong, she said. When we all protested in an uproar, she retreated to "I'm only concerned about their kids. Mongrel kids. I feel sorry for their kids."
This was before Loving.
The evil side wants to undo Loving.
We won't go back. We won't go back.
Vote. Vote. Vote.
@pattykimura @StillIRise1963 I'm in Portland, Oregon in 2023, in what was once called a mixed marriage, and a few of my neighbors still have emotional problems with it.
@pieist Some of my wife's family are unrepentant MAGA racists, so not sure if it was the interracial thing or the whole gay marriage thing or that I made it directly and politely clear I would not tolerate any kind of offensive language, period, but it was a very long first and only in-law silent Thanks(lol)giving.
We won't go back.
Personally, or as a nation.
@pieist Some of the people in my husband's family had emotional problems with it. @pattykimura