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Posted By TimALoftis 2 months, 1 week ago in Political OpinionWhen we first started dating, we faced many challenges as an interracial couple. Resistance came from friends and even family, but there was one experience more direct and threatening than all the rest. It was 1991 and Jungle Fever, a Spike Lee film documenting the trials of an interracial couple living in New York, had just come out. We were riding the subway when a group of African American teenagers got in our car and began taunting us, chanting Jungle Fever, loudly. It was degrading and we were scared, but all we could do was sit, pretending to ignore them. When the subway pulled into the next station, we quickly got out leaving them behind, but never forgetting what happened.
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TOD3962 months, 1 week ago
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This story raises two sides of the same coin. It stated that, as an interacial couple, they had to endure the taunting of several African American teens on a public vehicle. It also states of a justice in Louisiana who refuses to grant marriage licenses to interracial couples based upon his opinion that the marriage won't last.
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Could his thinking have something to do with the actions of those, like the African American teens? Could he have made a decision that interracial couples will have it more difficult
than couples of same races? The author even went so far as to explain that they endured resistance from friends and family. Maybe these factors were included in the judge's reasoning.
I hear everyone stating that the justice needs to be thrown off the bench, but did anyone stop to find out if the judge was taking all of the factors that this author had endured, along with a divorce rate at or above 50 percent as it is, and decide it just isn't worth it?
I saw a lot of contempt against this judge, and rightly so,but not one mention of how wrong the friends and family were, nor the African American teens. Pity, maybe the judge was just trying to save these couples from pain they didn't know would be coming...-
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jakesguile2 months, 1 week ago
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Sorry Todd, you did say "and rightly so" but there's still too much defense of an indefensible judge. He has no right to decide not to marry them just because of that, the statistics be damned. His job is to just stamp the paper and look the other way.
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