Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me
Oct. 15th, 2009 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mickeymInterracial couple denied marriage license in La.
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
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I'm sitting here with my mouth hanging open, trying to make this make sense in my brain, and not succeeding. What the HELL? Seriously, what decade/century are we in? Also, how is it his concern how long a marriage lasts (or doesn't)? I just... yeah. I hope that couple files a discrimination suit, or something, because holy cow.
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Read the rest of the article here.
I'm sitting here with my mouth hanging open, trying to make this make sense in my brain, and not succeeding. What the HELL? Seriously, what decade/century are we in? Also, how is it his concern how long a marriage lasts (or doesn't)? I just... yeah. I hope that couple files a discrimination suit, or something, because holy cow.
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Date: 2009-10-15 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-15 10:55 pm (UTC)/sarcasm
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Date: 2009-10-15 11:02 pm (UTC)Good to know that stupid still breeds stupid.
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Date: 2009-10-15 11:06 pm (UTC)I like how he uses the "concerned for the children" thing. I don't think he has any business trying to decide who can and cannot be married for any reason. As long as they have the paperwork, etc, all he has to do is say "I now pronounce you blah-and-blah."
That is so not his place to say. AUGH.
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Date: 2009-10-15 11:22 pm (UTC)Even Matthew is outraged by this, and man, he's a 14yr old boy with an autistic disorder. Pretty bad when KIDS can see how wrong something is.
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Date: 2009-10-16 04:12 am (UTC)And hey, isn't it awesome, how he has 'piles and piles' of black friends, and allows them to use his bathroom? /sarcasm
Jesus.
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Date: 2009-10-16 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-15 11:43 pm (UTC)As for the kids not being accepted? Our boys have no idea that they are supposed to treat each other different because they aren't both 'black' or 'white', they claim they are green, Drew being slightly darker than Chris. Alayna laughs and says they're icky because they are boys. His family accepts my kids, and mine do his. They both are hinting at babies. Bright, beautiful, 'multicultural' babies.
GRRRRR
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Date: 2009-10-16 04:16 am (UTC)The least the asshole could do would be to own up to his racism, 'cos I'm sorry, but comments like, "I don't believe in mixing races that way", and the one about letting "them" use his bathroom... that's pretty fucking racist, as far as I'm concerned.
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Date: 2009-10-15 11:44 pm (UTC)Can he *do* that?
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Date: 2009-10-16 04:22 am (UTC)The only thing that's ever going to stop prejudice, and the sorts of difficulties fitting in or adjusting or whatever, is if guys like this JoP aren't allowed to discriminate. Aren't allowed to pass their racism on to others.
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Date: 2009-10-16 11:21 am (UTC)This isn't so surprising as it is infuriating because there's a mile of case law that this dude went against -just because- he wanted to. I hope he's fired or voted out or whatever. It makes me sick.
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:23 am (UTC)We have enough seriously problems to be fighting (autism epidemic anyone?) for us to have to be expending energy on this sort of blatant bigotry.
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:35 am (UTC)Of course... I live in Los Angeles now.. home of the freaks :P I went from one extreme to another!
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:42 am (UTC)I live in the Hippyville of the South now and it's pretty good here - very liberal but still enough of the South to keep me at home.
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:45 am (UTC)Sorry for the hijack, Mickey! ♥
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Date: 2009-10-16 04:27 am (UTC)Sorry, dude. Pulling out the "I have ______ as friends" card is one of the best, first signs. Idiot.
(And yeah, I grew up in Michigan--with a father who didn't hesitate to share his less-than-stellar opinions on anyone not caucasian. Kentucky isn't much better.)
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Date: 2009-10-16 03:34 pm (UTC)Yeah.. I have family in Kentucky and they're worse than the Ohio family. It just frustrating to listen to people like that. Thank God my parents (somehow) managed to grow up without those prejudices and didn't raise me with them either.
And lastly... love your icon :P The heart is awesome!
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:50 am (UTC)Christ! they use my bathroom???? WTF???
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Date: 2009-10-16 02:42 am (UTC)SAME RACE COUPLES BREAK UP ALL THE TIME TOO! WTFF? O.O
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Date: 2009-10-16 04:31 am (UTC)It makes absolutely no sense to me--and it also makes me wonder, if his definition of interracial only extends to white/any other race, or if he also means black/asian, asian/native american, etc. and so on. ANY interracial. I really do wonder.
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Date: 2009-10-16 06:21 am (UTC)Not last long? Yeah, tell that to my sister and her husband who have their twentieth anniversary in January.
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Date: 2009-10-16 08:03 am (UTC)This dude is a fucking delight. As long as you're friends with the people you're being an ignorant twatermelon to, that's okay. Jesus christ.
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