Sup Super Friends:
So I'm checking the news cycle, online of course, screw the tele, and I come across this on Huffington Post(which by the way, if you wanna get some good news check out her site. It's mos definitely what's up) and I come across this story from the AP. Please read it and weep....
AP) NEW ORLEANS A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.
"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."
If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.
"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.
Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/interracial-couple-denied_n_322784.html
....... I mean really? I have a feeling this guy's 2 1/2 years of work is about to go down the drain. His reasoning is flawed. Does this idiot know that the President of the United States is born of an interracial couple?
I think it's really, really sad how people exert so much energy and cause mad frustration for folks like myself over things like race. Did you know that your race is determined by less than 1 % of what makes you you in your DNA? LESS THAN ONE PERCENT. How could something so minuscule cause such silly sad shenanigans. It's truly tragic.
Perhaps if we had some sort of choice in the race we were born, then maybe I'd understand. We all know that's not the case though. You're born whatever skin tone you get and that's that. So why take so much pride in something you had no control over? You didn't get a say in the matter, it's the cards you were dealt. Just like what nation you're born in. I'm not saying don't be proud of who you are, or where you were born, but don't be arrogant and ignorant of the things and those around you and the fact that these things are of little concern in the big picture.
Ill be happy when the day comes when what color your skin no longer matter. When whenever I fill out a job application, or take a standardized test I won't have to check what racial affiliation I belong to. When the color of my skin is the last thing I'm used to describe me of pigeon old me to some sophomoric stereotype.
We're all part of the HUMAN race.
If we don't start taking care of each other, treating those the way we want to be treated, we'll kill ourselves from the inside out.
Some day we'll get it right.
Or perhaps die trying...
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