Originally Posted By tiggertoo <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...l_rebuff</a> I just checked my calendar just to make sure I wasn’t stuck in some 1960s time warp. Nope, everything checked out. Holy cow, has this jackass never heard of Loving v Virginia?
Originally Posted By Mr X I hope the couple sues him for a billion dollars. Bigoted piece of garbage.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom." How progressive of this guy! He lets black people use his bathroom! I wonder if he disinfects afterwards?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Another piece of evidence that shows the horrible culture I encountered on our trip through the south. Louisianna was scary and I hope to never return.
Originally Posted By Mr X Try Alabama and Mississippi, they're WAY worse! At least Louisiana gets tourists.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo We did, and kept on driving. Once we went East of New Mexico, it got scarier and scarier the further East we went. By the time we got to WDW, we were disappointed by how poor a cousin it was to DL (this was pre Epcot) and could not wait to get home. I enjoyed WDW in 2000, not so much in 2006. The pick up trucks, gun racks and GOP bumper stickers were hard to take.
Originally Posted By u k fan Am I the only one to spot the irony of deploring bigotry and then complaining about <<pick up trucks, gun racks and GOP bumper stickers>> at WDW?!!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo yep - we are all bigoted in some ways, it is a part of what makes us human. Not always right or moral, but tis human.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt davewasbaloo, when you say "scarier and scarier" what do you mean exactly? I know the standard stuff (confederate flags and toothless hillbillies) that freak out people from other parts of the country when they travel through the backwoods south, but I'm curious to know what you experienced that was so scary.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo The racism seemed to get worse, the further we went, as was the bible thumping and kids chewing tobacco and the like. The worst was when we did see the KKK on the march in Mississippi. And then when we saw a black youth beaten in Florida, and a policeman said "I spect you should be turnin 'round, t'aint nuthin to be seen here" We saw some things that have lived up to the cliched imagiary of the Okarks and the south. If it were just good country pride and BBQs, then fine (and thankfully we saw this side too). But the final straw was when my mother would not be served in a convenience store.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Bardwell, who has been a JP for 34 years, says the state attorney general told him years ago that he would eventually get into trouble for not performing interracial marriages, The Star says. “I told him if I do, I’ll resign,” Bardwell says. “I have rights too. I’m not obligated to do that just because I’m a justice of the peace.”<< I'm thinking he has the right to not be a justice of the peace. <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/10/louisiana-jp-refuses-to-issue-marriage-license-for-interracial-couples-.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.usatoday.com/onde...es-.html</a>
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I, too, was struck by the fact that he said he's not racist, he has black friends and even lets them use his bathroom. The fact that he brought that up shows his racism. I can say though, my Grandpa, who is a preacher, stopped marrying people at all because the divorce rate was so high. Black, white or black and white, makes no difference. If this guy is so bothered by the divorce rate of interracial couples, he shouldn't be marrying anyone because there is so much divorce in general.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I, too, was struck by the fact that he said he's not racist, he has black friends and even lets them use his bathroom. >>> That's mighty white of him, isn't it?
Originally Posted By dshyates So let me get this straight. According to this JP, as a white male, my only option to marry would be a white woman? What about a hot hispanic lady? I just would love to see the JP's head explode if I came into his office requesting to marry a black guy.
