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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt wasn't all that long ago that a black man would get murdered for hugging a white woman
We've come a long way. Miles to go before we sleep, though.
eleny
(46,166 posts)I was thinking how the stagecraft was perfect and the hug was a totally warm touch. But you're right. I'm sure it had some teeth on edge around the country. Oh, f 'em!
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)Perspective.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)to vote on repeal of an old Jim Crow era law that prohibited interracial marriage, to get an odious, old, law off the books.
It was repealed, but by an uncomfortably narrow margin.
There is change, but there's a tendency to overestimate the extent of it.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)...that one day men will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Mission Accomplished
as Obama noted Democracy is not easy and change is slow-but on this nite a descendant of a black man and a white woman gave one of the Classic Political Speeches in American Political History
Wow-what a Nite
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But, damn, that was an image to be proud of