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Justice of the Bigotry: Gone!

posted November 4, 2009 - 1:46pm
Justice of the Bigotry: Gone!

Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell is finito, as of yesterday (November 3rd, 2009).  For those of you who need a refresher, the former justice of  Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, created controversy by refusing to marry interracial couples. His rationalization behind his bigotry was that he was looking out for the potential offspring of these couples (because we all know that people cannot have sex/ have children outside of marriage). The article below gives more backstory and explains the civil rights lawsuit that Bardwell is now facing.


Website: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_interracial_rebuff


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AlisonCook - Thu, 2009-5-11 1:23 pm

Thank you for your comment! Your story is beautiful and insightful.

I agree: this is 2009, we need to all get over the racial b.s. and see each other as individuals rather than as different groups. This "justice" was the antithesis to progressive thought.

With love,

Alison

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kateperez - Wed, 2009-4-11 10:02 pm

I have been hearing of this for a while.  I am white, my husband is Hispanic.  We are the proud parents of three very well-adjusted half white, half hispanic children.  They are beautiful (handsom) and happy.  I even heard one of them was accused of being prejudice against Mexican kids, and she took them to task, proudly stating her full name (she was named after his grandmother and mother).  As they had only seen me they presumed her to be white.  She LOOKED mexican.

Until the day that her dad had to come and pick her up from school she was getting flack.  After they saw his dad, everything was different.  She became a chica, and La Raza was all over her.  LOL.

I agree that probably in the History of the USA interracial children were in for some trouble but for goodness sakes, it's 2009!  We're over that!  If someone is not, they can just leave!

Great post, great article, and good riddance to the not so good judge.

Kate

 

Warmest regards and best intentions,

Kate

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