Interracial marriage in the 60's?
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libra113 — 9 years ago(May 04, 2016 12:39 PM)
Yeah but even in the 70's interracial marriage was still looked down upon by certain segments of the population. Not as many as before but still enough to make it hard on those involved and given how much they seemed to hate each other at the point the movie takes place the idea that they stay together seems even more far fetched. Unless they just get off on dealing with people giving them hard time all the time.
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CountVladDracula — 16 years ago(September 26, 2009 07:08 PM)
WRONG! Interracial marriage was NEVER illegal in the US (certain racist states tried making it illegal for a little while in the middle of the last century). It was only frowned upon in others. There was an Interracial couple in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
In fact Interracial marriage was common in New Orleans as far back as it's Colonial days.
How do you think people like Oboma, Tiger Woods, and Mariah Carey came into existence? They are the children of Interracial couples. -
CountVladDracula — 16 years ago(September 26, 2009 07:27 PM)
I think two or three backwards Southern states tried making it illegal in the early twentieth century but the more civilized states like New York and California and even Louisiana never had it illegal.
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CountVladDracula — 16 years ago(September 27, 2009 12:54 PM)
Not all Southern states. Even in it's Colonial stages Louisiana was the Southern Melting plot. The very race Creole was mixture of African and French.
It's ironic when you think about it, how utterly backward it was. Especially considering Othello was about an interracial couple and that was written in the late sixteen hundreds. Also it was a common way to get out of slavery, for an African slave to marry their master.
People also forget Cleopatra and her relationships with Mark Anthony and Caesar. She was from Egypt. The Northern tip of Africa. Seems that some of the more backward parts of the American South tried to make something an issue about fifty years ago that until the end of slavery hadn't actually been an issue.
