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Thank you for calling my grandfather "John whomever" and my grandmother an
"Indian chick." Scholarship abounds on this list.
S,
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:04 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> John whomever. He was still a white guy who married this Indian chick
> way
> back in the day in Virginia. The Loving case was a test case to get rid
> of a
> law that was essentially un enforced In Virginia much as the 55 mile an
> hour
> speed limit is largely un enforced. It apparently had no chilling effect
> on
> anyone, including the Lovings, who wanted to get married in the state.
> It
> was a vestige of Jim Crow that had long died and just needed to be taken
> off
> the books. The NAACP funded and backed the whole thing, and since the
> Lovings
> were living in DC at the time, there was no risk of any sort of
> enforcement
> by the Commonwealth.
>
> What else did she ever do for the public good?
>
> J South
>
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