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Thanks, Mildred and Richard Loving.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Bill of Rights (From public domain.) Growing up in southern Connecticut, I recoiled in horror over the blatant, violent, and rampant racism that overtook so much of the South right into the 1960's. Confronting such a reality made me also recognize all the more the substantial extent of racism right in my Northeast United States backyard -- and, sadly, even my local backyard -- without the South's then-recent Jim Crow laws.  Mildred and Richard Loving were a low-key counterpoint to my numerous strongly-worded responses over time to people saying words that at best have been racially insensitive, with some speakers admitting their racism outright, and with most of them denying being racist and sometimes trotting out that one of their best friends is this or that race or religion...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).