"In 1967, interracial couple Mildred and Richard
Loving made history when they helped strike down the law that made their
marriage a crime (Youtube below.)" taking their case Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court.
What a Dickensian name Loving is for a couple the
marriage of whom was all about love and the racist edict in place that
prevented their marriage ironically was all about hate. In the 1950's, the
glorious time to which Trumpites would love to return and make their nation
great again, one could kill a person of color with impunity, but love between
black and white human beings could quite possibly get one killed or, at the
least, land one in jail.
June, 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of that
monumental decision. Imagine, it
required a Supreme Court finding to allow two people to love each other. When one thinks of this nation's horrific
racist past from slavery even unto this day as certain states still try to deny
persons of color the vote and a Roberts
Court weakens the 1964 Voting Rights Act, one sees we are not so far from our
1860 Civil War historical past.
Yet again, in different ways from literacy tests and
grandfather clauses, states in our time of the now Republican south and
elsewhere in this nation try mightily to make voting more difficult for persons
of color and the poor. Moreover, in many states, persons of color have been
killed with impunity for often the least offensive non-violent crime, no crime
or the crime of simply being black. We
have taken baby steps in the panorama of over 300 years in the nation's efforts
toward inclusiveness of persons of color, brought here against their will and
in chains, only to find Herculean mountainous obstacles to happiness and the
prohibition of rights whites take for granted. The case, Loving v. Virginia is one of the most flagrant examples of entrenched
racism that still finds a home in the sinew of a nation which continues to
attempt to deny the vote and sometimes even the life of a person of color.
The phenomenon of Trump is the latest example against
a besieged people and other minorities – citizens of this nation.
I do not care if FIFTY Trumps are elected, quoting Ted Kennedy from his
1980 Democratic convention speech: "The work goes on, the cause endures,
the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." The indelible stain
of racism in a nation allegedly all about freedom must be, as the civil rights song says, "overcome
one day" permanently erased from our nation’s racist past and
present-day shame.
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VOTING DEMOCRATIC IS ONE'S MORAL OBLIGATION. GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE OR TRUMP WILL BE THE NEXT RACIST REALITY!
