What is the “Mixed Community”?
It wasn’t until June of 1967 (less than a decade before my birth) that the United State Supreme Court ruled that bans on
miscegenation (the intermarriage of people of different races) were unenforceable. The case was prompted by the
conviction of a couple in Virginia whose trial judge Leon Bazile, in his decision quoted Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's
18th-century interpretation of race, proclaiming 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.
Even after this ruling, several states still held such language in their constitutions.
It wasn’t until the 21st century we have seen the elimination of anti-miscegenation
laws from our country. However, the vote to remove antimiscegenation laws from the last state to do so was decided with a distressing 40% of the voters AGAINST the repeal.
As the first generation of Americans born post-Loving v. Virginia, we find ourselves in uncharted territory.
Recently, the “mixed community” had gained a presence in the web-based community. Below are a few
links to places discussing issues from “please check one box” to community and familial acceptance to
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