Today is Loving Day!
I'm sick and don't particularly feel like blogging about breakups right now, sorry. (But keep writing to me, I'll get back to it!)
I do want to share something important today: From LovingDay.org: "What is Loving Day? Loving Day is an educational community project. The name comes from Loving v. Virginia (1967), the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage in the United States.
Loving Day celebrations commemorate the anniversary of the Loving decision every year on or around June 12. Loving Day's mission is to fight prejudice through education and to build a sense of community among people who engage in meaningful interracial and intercultural relationships."
It's crazy for me to think that just 40 years ago, it would have been illegal in some states for my parents to marry. So celebrate your legal right to love a person of any race and spread the word!
Comments
This is a very good example from a Phila. Inquirer column this morning: "If it seems a shock that such a ruling ever had to be made in this country, consider: Relationships between people from different racial backgrounds were outlawed in the United States as early as 1661, and as of 1967, 16 states, including Virginia, still prohibited interracial marriages."
Posted by: Johnathan Meyers | June 12, 2007 2:57 PM