Your cynicism is astounding. They wanted to move back to Caroline  
County, from which they had been kicked out. Aren't we supposed to be  
able to live wherever we want? They lived in DC because they'd have  
been thrown in jail if they went back home. There were a lot of  
white/ native marriages at the beginnings of Virginia, but that has  
nothing to do with later miscegenation laws.

John whomever? Try getting your history from something other than a  
Disney cartoon.

Nancy

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On 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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