Way to go Mississippi!!!

Alferd_Packer · 7th April 2011, 01:31 PM

Once again, you have proven to the nation that if ignorance were cash, you'd be the richest state in the union.

Poll: 46% of Mississippi Republicans want interracial marriage ban

Redtail · 7th April 2011, 01:48 PM

Hmmm... maybe I shouldn't have applied for that job @ Southern Miss.

Weak Kitten · 7th April 2011, 01:51 PM

It's strange to think how many of my friends and their parents would be effected by such a change. Even if it was just making black and white marriages illegal that would take out my childhood best friend.

I wonder how they define "interracial"? My father-in-law is Welsh and his wife is English...that could be considered interracial by certain definitions!

Thunder · 7th April 2011, 02:20 PM

so this means Jews and Aryans could not marry?

JamesDillon · 7th April 2011, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Weak Kitten

I wonder how they define "interracial"? My father-in-law is Welsh and his wife is English...that could be considered interracial by certain definitions!

The Mississippi anti-miscegenation statute that was in effect at the time of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia criminalized marriage between "a white person and a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, or with a Mongolian or a person who shall have one-eighth or more of Mongolian blood." Miss. Code Ann. § 459 (1942). Of course there's no guarantee that the poll respondents' preferences overlap precisely with the old legal definition, but that's the history for whatever it's worth.

DC · 7th April 2011, 02:33 PM

pls tell me Salon is something like TheOnion...

Weak Kitten · 7th April 2011, 02:38 PM

So what do they mean by Mongolian? Are they just picking on people from Mongolia or are they using the older term for what we now call Asians?

If the latter that still effects quite a few of my friends.

JamesDillon · 7th April 2011, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Weak Kitten

So what do they mean by Mongolian? Are they just picking on people from Mongolia or are they using the older term for what we now call Asians?

If the latter that still effects quite a few of my friends.

I'm not sure if there was a statutory definition, but according to Wikipedia it likely included all East Asians:

Quote:

The first usage of the term Mongolian race was by Christoph Meiners in a "binary racial scheme" of "two races", with the Caucasian whose racial purity was exemplified by the "venerated... ancient Germans" and "Mongolians" who consisted of everyone else. The term Mongolian was borrowed from Meiners by Johann Blumenbach to describe "second [race], [which] includes that part of Asia beyond the Ganges and below the river Amoor [Amur], which looks toward the south, together with the islands and the greater part of these countries which is now called Australian".

In which case it would include me and my Filipino-Canadian wife-- but we never wanted to move to Mississippi anyway. (Or maybe not, as Wikipedia continues "In 1983, Futuyma claimed that the inclusion of Native Americans and Pacific Islanders under the Yellow people race was not recognized by 'many anthropologists' who consider them 'distinct races'".)

Weak Kitten · 7th April 2011, 02:57 PM

Wow, thanks for the info. It makes me ashamed to use the term Mongolian...but if they don't object then I'll probably keep using it. I just can't remember the proper name for the peoples of that area.

It's all rather silly anyway. Interracial marriage is here to stay and any attempt to get rid of it would be met with horrible pictures of families torn apart promptly followed by the supreme court getting to tear some lawyer into tiny quivering shreds.

DC · 7th April 2011, 02:59 PM

so how do they devince races? here only members of the human race can marry eachother.....

Uncle Otto · 7th April 2011, 03:03 PM

Sometimes it's just supremely embarrassing to be an American citizen.

JamesDillon · 7th April 2011, 03:13 PM

Just to give a sense of how much attitudes have changed, below is a quote from the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which held anti-miscegenation statutes unconstitutional. The Court is quoting the Virginia trial court, which upheld the law against racial mixing based on the following reasoning:

Quote:

Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

Note that that's 1967, not 1867. This was a common view when a lot of people alive today were born.

Hercules Rockefeller · 7th April 2011, 03:15 PM

Could it be that some Mississippians are just afraid they have to start marrying outside of their own family?

MattusMaximus · 7th April 2011, 03:23 PM

It should be noted that the article in question states that 46% of Republican primary voters think the state should ban inter-racial marriage. It is not a poll of the general population... not that it makes the poll results any more palatable.

thaiboxerken · 7th April 2011, 03:25 PM

Ah, the beauty of "the South."

KingMerv00 · 7th April 2011, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller

Could it be that some Mississippians are just afraid they have to start marrying outside of their own family?

That's bigotry. How dare you perpetuate stereotypes.

It's pretty clear they were just illiterate. They were in a hurry to get back to playing the banjo and filled in whichever circle look the least "queer".

John Jones · 7th April 2011, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Weak Kitten

Wow, thanks for the info. It makes me ashamed to use the term Mongolian...but if they don't object then I'll probably keep using it. I just can't remember the proper name for the peoples of that area.

It's all rather silly anyway. Interracial marriage is here to stay and any attempt to get rid of it would be met with horrible pictures of families torn apart promptly followed by the supreme court getting to tear some lawyer into tiny quivering shreds.

Mississippi as a state isn't trying to make it illegal.

The minority of Mississippians who opined that way are displaying defiance and/or a personal preference.

You see similar things in the south all the time. Antebellum state laws are refused being struck-down even though the southerns know there's no chance in hell of surviving a superior court challenge.

FWIW, everybody in the south looks-down on Mississippi on account of their non-reconstructed sentiments.

John Jones · 7th April 2011, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller

Could it be that some Mississippians are just afraid they have to start marrying outside of their own family?

That wouldn't save them.

thaiboxerken · 7th April 2011, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by John Jones

The minority of Mississippians who opined that way are displaying defiance and/or a personal preference.

Right, so they don't want to actually make their bigotry law.

Hercules Rockefeller · 7th April 2011, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by KingMerv00

That's bigotry. How dare you perpetuate stereotypes.

It's pretty clear they were just illiterate. They were in a hurry to get back to playing the banjo and filled in whichever circle look the least "queer".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE

quadraginta · 7th April 2011, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by John Jones

That wouldn't save them.

More than a few could be marrying relatives even if they did marry someone black, especially if it was someone from the same part of the state.

Thunder · 7th April 2011, 05:26 PM

maybe secession wasn't such a bad idea after all.

John Jones · 7th April 2011, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by thaiboxerken

Right, so they don't want to actually make their bigotry law.

It won't matter and they know it.

John Jones · 7th April 2011, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by quadraginta

More than a few could be marrying relatives even if they did marry someone black, especially if it was someone from the same part of the state.

Exactly.

John Jones · 7th April 2011, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Thunder

maybe secession wasn't such a bad idea after all.

Thanks for missing the point, excrement -stirrer.

John Jones · 7th April 2011, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by thaiboxerken

Right, so they don't want to actually make their bigotry law.

The dreaded double-post.

SOdhner · 7th April 2011, 07:14 PM

Aww, someone beat me to it. I just found this on another site and rished right over.

Just for the record, in case anyone was curious but not so much that they looked it up:

Originally Posted by SURVEY

PPP surveyed 400 usual Mississippi Republican primary voters from March 24th to 27th.
The survey’s margin of error is +/-4.9%. Other factors, such as refusal to be interviewed
and weighting, may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify.

I like the people that said "not sure".

jimtron · 7th April 2011, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Alferd_Packer

Once again, you have proven to the nation that if ignorance were cash, you'd be the richest state in the union.

This is more an example of intolerance, not ignorance, no?

Dorian Gray · 7th April 2011, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Thunder

so this means Jews and Aryans could not marry?

In Mississippi, it means that NASCAR fans and Formula One fans can't marry.

Accidental Martyr · 7th April 2011, 09:37 PM

Here in Alabama we're very progressive. The ban on interracial marriage was overturned in 2000.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/al/main03.htm
However:

Quote:

In many rural, mostly white counties, the amendment either passed narrowly or was defeated. But in urban centers, such as Jefferson County, it passed overwhelmingly.

blobru · 7th April 2011, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE

Uh-oh... a banjo and guitar playing together. That'll never fly with the grand wizard.

BobTheCoward · 7th April 2011, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by Alferd_Packer

Once again, you have proven to the nation that if ignorance were cash, you'd be the richest state in the union.

How is it ignorant?

It sounds like they don't lack knowledge, but simply arrived at a position you find reprehensible.

Redtail · 7th April 2011, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by BobTheCoward

How is it ignorant?

It sounds like they don't lack knowledge, but simply arrived at a position you find reprehensible.

What reasons for banning interracial marriage aren't based in ignorance?

DC · 8th April 2011, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by BobTheCoward

How is it ignorant?

It sounds like they don't lack knowledge, but simply arrived at a position you find reprehensible.

sorry my ignorance but what is race?

ponderingturtle · 8th April 2011, 05:32 AM

Originally Posted by DC

sorry my ignorance but what is race?

Like gender it is a purely social construct based commonly on certain physical traits. Just because it has no biological basis does not mean it is not real enough to impact peoples lives.

Accidental Martyr · 8th April 2011, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by Dorian Gray

In Mississippi, it means that NASCAR fans and Formula One fans can't marry.

That isn't an issue. There are no Formula One fans in Mississippi.

Thunder · 8th April 2011, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by BobTheCoward

How is it ignorant?

not only is it ignorant, but its racist and authoritarian.

I thought these Conservative folks were all about freedom and liberty?

I guess not.

Ysidro · 8th April 2011, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by Weak Kitten

Wow, thanks for the info. It makes me ashamed to use the term Mongolian...but if they don't object then I'll probably keep using it. I just can't remember the proper name for the peoples of that area.

What's wrong with "Asian" if you don't know where else they're from? I'm not going to call a Frenchman "German" just because I can't remember what French people are like.

thaiboxerken · 8th April 2011, 07:37 AM

And most of the Republicans there want to get Haley Barbur as POTUS.

WildCat · 8th April 2011, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by Ysidro

What's wrong with "Asian" if you don't know where else they're from? I'm not going to call a Frenchman "German" just because I can't remember what French people are like.

Why do the Amish call all non-Amish "English"? And how did Germans become "Pennsylvania Dutch"?

7th April 2011, 01:31 PM	#1
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Weak Kitten Graduate Poster Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Lost and lonely...will you be my friend? Posts: 1,723	It's strange to think how many of my friends and their parents would be effected by such a change. Even if it was just making black and white marriages illegal that would take out my childhood best friend. I wonder how they define "interracial"? My father-in-law is Welsh and his wife is English...that could be considered interracial by certain definitions!
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JamesDillon Master Poster Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA Posts: 2,631	Originally Posted by Weak Kitten I wonder how they define "interracial"? My father-in-law is Welsh and his wife is English...that could be considered interracial by certain definitions! The Mississippi anti-miscegenation statute that was in effect at the time of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia criminalized marriage between "a white person and a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, or with a Mongolian or a person who shall have one-eighth or more of Mongolian blood." Miss. Code Ann. § 459 (1942). Of course there's no guarantee that the poll respondents' preferences overlap precisely with the old legal definition, but that's the history for whatever it's worth.
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Weak Kitten Graduate Poster Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Lost and lonely...will you be my friend? Posts: 1,723	So what do they mean by Mongolian? Are they just picking on people from Mongolia or are they using the older term for what we now call Asians? If the latter that still effects quite a few of my friends.
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JamesDillon Master Poster Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA Posts: 2,631	Originally Posted by Weak Kitten So what do they mean by Mongolian? Are they just picking on people from Mongolia or are they using the older term for what we now call Asians? If the latter that still effects quite a few of my friends. I'm not sure if there was a statutory definition, but according to Wikipedia it likely included all East Asians: Quote: The first usage of the term Mongolian race was by Christoph Meiners in a "binary racial scheme" of "two races", with the Caucasian whose racial purity was exemplified by the "venerated... ancient Germans" and "Mongolians" who consisted of everyone else. The term Mongolian was borrowed from Meiners by Johann Blumenbach to describe "second [race], [which] includes that part of Asia beyond the Ganges and below the river Amoor [Amur], which looks toward the south, together with the islands and the greater part of these countries which is now called Australian". In which case it would include me and my Filipino-Canadian wife-- but we never wanted to move to Mississippi anyway. (Or maybe not, as Wikipedia continues "In 1983, Futuyma claimed that the inclusion of Native Americans and Pacific Islanders under the Yellow people race was not recognized by 'many anthropologists' who consider them 'distinct races'".)
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Weak Kitten Graduate Poster Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Lost and lonely...will you be my friend? Posts: 1,723	Wow, thanks for the info. It makes me ashamed to use the term Mongolian...but if they don't object then I'll probably keep using it. I just can't remember the proper name for the peoples of that area. It's all rather silly anyway. Interracial marriage is here to stay and any attempt to get rid of it would be met with horrible pictures of families torn apart promptly followed by the supreme court getting to tear some lawyer into tiny quivering shreds.
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JamesDillon Master Poster Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA Posts: 2,631	Just to give a sense of how much attitudes have changed, below is a quote from the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which held anti-miscegenation statutes unconstitutional. The Court is quoting the Virginia trial court, which upheld the law against racial mixing based on the following reasoning: Quote: Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix. Note that that's 1967, not 1867. This was a common view when a lot of people alive today were born.
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KingMerv00 Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Philadelphia, PA...USA Posts: 14,482	Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller Could it be that some Mississippians are just afraid they have to start marrying outside of their own family? That's bigotry. How dare you perpetuate stereotypes. It's pretty clear they were just illiterate. They were in a hurry to get back to playing the banjo and filled in whichever circle look the least "queer".
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John Jones Illuminator Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3,719	Originally Posted by Weak Kitten Wow, thanks for the info. It makes me ashamed to use the term Mongolian...but if they don't object then I'll probably keep using it. I just can't remember the proper name for the peoples of that area. It's all rather silly anyway. Interracial marriage is here to stay and any attempt to get rid of it would be met with horrible pictures of families torn apart promptly followed by the supreme court getting to tear some lawyer into tiny quivering shreds. Mississippi as a state isn't trying to make it illegal. The minority of Mississippians who opined that way are displaying defiance and/or a personal preference. You see similar things in the south all the time. Antebellum state laws are refused being struck-down even though the southerns know there's no chance in hell of surviving a superior court challenge. FWIW, everybody in the south looks-down on Mississippi on account of their non-reconstructed sentiments.
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John Jones Illuminator Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3,719	Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller Could it be that some Mississippians are just afraid they have to start marrying outside of their own family? That wouldn't save them.
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thaiboxerken Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 20,963	Originally Posted by John Jones The minority of Mississippians who opined that way are displaying defiance and/or a personal preference. Right, so they don't want to actually make their bigotry law.
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Hercules Rockefeller Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Ponylandistan Posts: 1,383	Originally Posted by KingMerv00 That's bigotry. How dare you perpetuate stereotypes. It's pretty clear they were just illiterate. They were in a hurry to get back to playing the banjo and filled in whichever circle look the least "queer". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE

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quadraginta What was the question? Join Date: May 2009 Location: Central Vale of Humility Posts: 7,908	Originally Posted by John Jones That wouldn't save them. More than a few could be marrying relatives even if they did marry someone black, especially if it was someone from the same part of the state.
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Thunder Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queens Posts: 34,947	maybe secession wasn't such a bad idea after all.

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John Jones Illuminator Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3,719	Originally Posted by thaiboxerken Right, so they don't want to actually make their bigotry law. It won't matter and they know it.
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John Jones Illuminator Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3,719	Originally Posted by quadraginta More than a few could be marrying relatives even if they did marry someone black, especially if it was someone from the same part of the state. Exactly.
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John Jones Illuminator Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3,719	Originally Posted by Thunder maybe secession wasn't such a bad idea after all. Thanks for missing the point, excrement -stirrer.
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John Jones Illuminator Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3,719	Originally Posted by thaiboxerken Right, so they don't want to actually make their bigotry law. The dreaded double-post.
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jimtron Master Poster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 2,966	Originally Posted by Alferd_Packer Once again, you have proven to the nation that if ignorance were cash, you'd be the richest state in the union. This is more an example of intolerance, not ignorance, no?
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BobTheCoward Muse Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 699	Originally Posted by Alferd_Packer Once again, you have proven to the nation that if ignorance were cash, you'd be the richest state in the union. How is it ignorant? It sounds like they don't lack knowledge, but simply arrived at a position you find reprehensible.
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7th April 2011, 11:58 PM	#33
Redtail Philosopher Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 9,304	Originally Posted by BobTheCoward How is it ignorant? It sounds like they don't lack knowledge, but simply arrived at a position you find reprehensible. What reasons for banning interracial marriage aren't based in ignorance?
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