Beks, the preview picture on that video is disturbing!
Being Prejudiced
by purplesofa 68 Replies latest jw friends
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mrsjones5
He was telling her how the guy he works with won't hardly talk to him today. The guy he works with is black and seems he has been calling him the N word, I don't think to his face,
Sounds like it got back to the black guy what your daughter's friend has been saying. I wonder why he's surprised that now that the black guy barely acknowledges him, I sure wouldn't. None too swift is he.
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purplesofa
Hey,
He is on his way over and we are gonna have a little chit-chat!
Thanks friends
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mrsjones5
Don't hurt him...too much
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John Doe
Just thought I would point out that this guy's thinking is not out of line with where our country was a short time ago. Loving v. Virginia, a famous case, was decided in 1967 and was a landmark decision for the court. There, a white man legally married a partially black woman in another state, but lived in Virginia. They were arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for violation of a state statute, which the Supreme Court overturned. Check out this quote from a lower courft judge:
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
Incredible ain't if folks. Kind of makes atheists little plaques not look so bad, eh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
The plaintiffs, Mildred Loving (nee Mildred Delores Jeter, a woman of African and Rappahannock Native American descent, 1939 – May 2, 2008) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Richard Perry Loving (a white man, October 29, 1933 – June 1975), were residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia who had been married in June 1958 in the District of Columbia, having left Virginia to evade the Racial Integrity Act, a state law banning marriages between any white person and any non-white person. Upon their return to Caroline County, Virginia, they were charged with violation of the ban. They were caught sleeping in their bed by a group of police officers who had invaded their home in the hopes of finding them in the act of sex (another crime). In their defense, Ms. Loving had pointed to a marriage certificate on the wall in their bedroom. That, instead of defending them, became the evidence the police needed for a criminal charge since it showed they had been married in another state. Specifically, they were charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia Code, which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia, and Section 20-59, which classified "miscegenation" as a felony punishable by a prison sentence of between one and five years. On January 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one year in prison, with the sentence suspended for 25 years on condition that the couple leave the state of Virginia. The trial judge in the case, Leon Bazile, echoing Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's 18th-century interpretation of race, proclaimed that
“ Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix. ” The Lovings moved to the District of Columbia, and on November 6, 1963 the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion on their behalf in the state trial court to vacate the judgment and set aside the sentence on the grounds that the violated statutes ran counter to the Fourteenth Amendment. This set in motion a series of lawsuits which ultimately reached the Supreme Court. On October 28, 1964, after their motion still had not been decided, the Lovings began a class action suit in the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. On January 22, 1965, the three-judge district court decided to allow the Lovings to present their constitutional claims to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Virginia Supreme Court Justice Harry L. Carrico (later Chief Justice of the Court) wrote an opinion for the court upholding the constitutionality of the anti-miscegenation statutes and, after modifying the sentence, affirmed the criminal convictions.
Ignoring United States Supreme Court precedent, Carrico cited as authority the Virginia Supreme Court's own decision in Naim v. Naim (1955), and also argued that the case at hand was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause because both the white and the non-white spouse were punished equally for the "crime" of "miscegenation", an argument similar to that made by the United States Supreme Court in 1883 in Pace v. Alabama.
In 1966, the Presbyterian Church took a strong stand stating that they do not condemn or prohibit interracial marriages. The church found "no theological grounds for condemning or prohibiting marriage between consenting adults merely because of racial origin". [ 4 ] In that same year, the Unitarian Universalist Association declared that "laws which prohibit, inhibit or hamper marriage or cohabitation between persons because of different races, religions, or national origins should be nullified or repealed." [ 5 ] Months before the Supreme Court ruling on Loving v. Virginia the Roman Catholic Church joined the movement, supporting interracial couples in their struggle for recognition of their right to marriage.
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John Doe
These two people are the ones who turned the tide and allowed for interracial marriage. They look like a happy couple. Interestingly, Mildred died in May of this year, but unlike Rosa Parks, the news media didn't make a big deal about it. Richard Loving died in a car accident in 1975. Awfully hard to image these folks being branded as criminals, huh.
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beksbks
Crazy
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John Doe
Is it just me, or does that picture remind anyone else of Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Barry in "Monster's Ball?"
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snowbird
I remember ... boy, do I remember!
I don't watch movies, so I wouldn't know about Halle & Billy Bob.
Sylvia
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Farkel
The religion I was raised in was the last major sect to be totally integrated. Did you know that? Even after all the Civil Rights laws were passed, Congregations were told for years not to integrate in parts of the Southern US because "some people" might be "stumbled." It wasn't until well into the 1960's that the WTS finally relented and let congregations be integrated in the South. I forgot where I read that, though. Chuck Russell/Clayton Woodworth were racist, and Grudge Rutherford hated everyone. Nathan Knorr was the world's worst sourpuss. Can you imagine being a total sourpuss and having NO personality both at the same time? It's like being pissed off all the time and not even being able to do that with any style!
It's already been long acknowledged by those who study the subject that all modern races originated in Africa, leaving from there to go along the shoreline into India, and down their coast to New Guinea, and across the water to Australia, while other groups went north and east and north and west and settled Asia and Europe. In fact, there is some solid evidence that Africans were the first to visit the East shores of South America. And they didn't take a jet plane to get there.
This makes all of us mutts and any notion of a pure race today is stupid self-delusion.
Farkel
