Do you ever wonder why it is common to see more and more marriages that are mixed in terms of race? During my years of looking at commercials which were displayed to perform digital entertainment, I noticed that I saw more interracial marriages on TV then in our society.
To provide historical context this act of marriage was prohibited during the segregation between Whites, and Blacks. These were called the miscegenation laws, in which one couple could not marry outside their race and it only applied to 13 southern states.
On July 11, 1958 at 2 am in the morning Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested due to their Interracial relationship. This act of marriage was illegal in their state and they were forced to leave Virginia for 25 years or to stay a year in prison.
This act of law was initiated by the 1924 Racial Integrity Act of Virginia. This was a federal law which means that this applied to all states of America. Mildred who was a black woman and Richard being a white man was a crime during that time.
Mildred who was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement decided to fight back. She wrote a letter to Robert F. Kennedy who forwarded their case to the American Civil Liberties Union. And addressed them to two young lawyers Phil Hirschkop and Bernard Cohen.
Lawyers Hirschkop and Cohen took this to court, eventually going all the way up to the Supreme COurt. The Anti-Miscegenation laws they had was a violation of the constitution of the 14th amendment which was written for the privileges and rights of the people, providing equal rights to the people including their right to citizenship.
To also provide some political contribution, this is a progressive ideology. Parallel to the mentions of multiculturalism, and diversity which is the unification of all races in this ideal. But to stay back on track, Virginia soon banned the law on interracial marriages making Mildred, and Richard Loving’s marriage acceptable.
Information from Voa news provide views about interracial marriages, and that certain advertisements show this form of marriage. Kelly Thurman, a mother with a biracial child, explains that the way the present this form of advertisement makes her child feel included.
Color doesn’t mean anything when it comes to love and thankfully the Lovings were able to convince the American government of that basic human fact.
