http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/16/louisiana.interracial.marriage/index.html
Beth Humphrey, and her boyfriend, Terrence McKay, were denied a marriage license, due to their race, by a justice of the peace in New Orleans. The justice, Keith Bardwell, states that it is not the race difference that he has a problem with, it is the future children that he is worried about. He also stated that these types of marriages never last. Bardwells wife referred the couple to another justice of the peace, who did endorse their marriage license. They have since hired an attorney and the NAACP is also involved. They have since forwarded this case to the state and national level of the civil rights group. Bardwell was asked to resign.
How ignorant can one person get? He should have known that this was going to happen. Why would you even put your self in a position to become discriminant? I know that discrimination is still a big problem, but, to discriminate against someone who has not, and may never will be, thought of.
I can't believe that there are people who are still like this. I mean look at all of our children, it does not matter whether they are white, black, mixed, or even yellow, they are still children, they are our children.
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