Loving Day Is Nearly Here

The Dark King

The Dark King

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I just wanted to remind everyone why we all joined this site because Loving Day is right around the corner. For those of you who might not know Loving Day is a yearly celebration honoring the first American couple to be joined in interracial marriage. The Loves were a real couple who tried to get married in the late 50s and their union was rejected because marriage between blacks and whites were illegal then. Through their arduous tribulations they fought the Supreme Court to make unions between blacks and whites legally recognized so if you're in the NY area or know of a festival near you please go out and show your support. If it wasn't for their sacrafices we wouldn't be together.
 
andrae09 said:
I just wanted to remind everyone why we all joined this site because Loving Day is right around the corner. For those of you who might not know Loving Day is a yearly celebration honoring the first American couple to be joined in interracial marriage. The Loves were a real couple who tried to get married in the late 50s and their union was rejected because marriage between blacks and whites were illegal then. Through their arduous tribulations they fought the Supreme Court to make unions between blacks and whites legally recognized so if you're in the NY area or know of a festival near you please go out and show your support. If it wasn't for their sacrafices we wouldn't be together.
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Thanks for the reminder Andrae. :smt023
 
Wow, I didn't know there was a day to honor them. That's awesome!

Unbelievable to think that someone could actually be convicted for such a thing, but it happened and not so long ago. A great excerpt from the decision:

These statutes also deprive the Lovings of liberty without due process of law in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
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andrae09 said:
As cheesy as it sounds it's kind of cool that their actual names were love. Kind of sweetly ironic.
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What's also ironic is this was a WM/BW couple that took IR marriage to the Supreme Court level at a time in history when black men were still getting lynched. Angry sistas need to take notes.
 
karmacoma. said:
What's also ironic is this was a WM/BW couple that took IR marriage to the Supreme Court level at a time in history when black men were still getting lynched. Angry sistas need to take notes.
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Touche brother. Thank god they did what they did because we wouldn't have sites like this or id wouldn't havr had the fun life that I've had.
 
Andrae & karma,
Thanks for the education.....that court case
triumph indeed paved the way for IR couple progress!
Now.........any suggestions on how we
should properly honor and recognize the day?....
.......I have my own ideas........
 
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We usually barbecue on Loving Day.

One good thing to do is to tell everyone about it. If you bbq, you can let your whole circle know about Loving Day. Be sure to let everyone you know in an IR that this is *our* day. Be sure to invite everyone else, too, so that more people know about Loving Day -- generally people love it, everyone loves an excuse for another holiday, particularly one this romantic, particularly if there's bbq involved. And finally, be sure to invite any singles you know who are interested in dating IR -- like weddings, Loving Day's a great time to met someone, because everyone's in the mood. Of course, be sure not to invite haters. Or, if you have to invite them, lay the IR frosting on thick so they don't want to come.
 
Oh, also, you can really have fun with the food at a Loving Day BBQ.

You can do "fusion" menus, that include the tastiest bbq food from different ethnicities.

Alternately, you can do a Hawaiian themed BBQ in honor of Obama -- also, there's a huge amount of IR marriage in Hawaii, more than anywhere else in the nation, so it's a good theme by itself anyway.
 
Our local newspaper is writing an article on mixed race couples' stories to commemorate Loving Day - my husband and I are one of the couples they are writing on. ;) Once it's published, I'll have to post the link. Also, a facebook group that I'm a member of (and know the lady who runs it) is having a BBQ - it will be fun. Can't wait! The group is called "Mixed and Happy: I Support Mixed-Race Families" - if any of you are on facebook, check it out. It's great! http://www.facebook.com/mixedandhappy :heart:
 
Archman said:
A smart-ass engineer who sits in the office next to mine came over and
peeped at your post on my screen........he suggested I invite over folks for watermellon, fried chicken and basketball;... I could not decide weather to laugh or body-slam the mf.....this happened today in my office!
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What an ass. It's pathetic that anyone would think it appropriate to say something like that outloud. :smt018
 
suprchic73 said:
Our local newspaper is writing an article on mixed race couples' stories to commemorate Loving Day - my husband and I are one of the couples they are writing on. ;) Once it's published, I'll have to post the link. Also, a facebook group that I'm a member of (and know the lady who runs it) is having a BBQ - it will be fun. Can't wait! The group is called "Mixed and Happy: I Support Mixed-Race Families" - if any of you are on facebook, check it out. It's great! http://www.facebook.com/mixedandhappy :heart:
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i actually read all about this in another thread where you were talking about you and your husband being interviewed...loved your blog as well....what a great story suprchic...thanks for sharing your story and being a part of the loving day in your home town

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lipstick said:
i actually read all about this in another thread where you were talking about you and your husband being interviewed...loved your blog as well....what a great story suprchic...thanks for sharing your story and being a part of the loving day in your home town

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Thanks, Lippy! Hope I wasn't too redundant, lol...I keep mentioning this article we did - guess, I'm just excited about it. :smt060
 
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