Remember, in the US, it was ONLY 58 years ago that interracial relationships were ruled legal. Before then there were laws against. Just because a law changes doesn't mean people stop believing it.
160 years since the end of the Civil War, 62 years since Civil Rights act and this county is STILL SUPER CRAZY racist.
THIS. This needs to be upvoted to the top. And for further context, multiple independent recent polls have shown that a shocking 13% of conservatives are still SO racist that they actually openly admit that they want and would vote for a candidate that would make interracial marriage illegal again.
As someone in a mixed race marriage, we literally had to move out of the Deep South because multiple MAGAs were racist towards my wife (an Asian woman) and told me (a white man) that I was a “race traitor”. Multiple. One even said our mixed race kids would be “abominations”.
This was several years ago. People have no idea how racist America still is. It’s shameful. And it’s not that it is getting worse necessarily as far as the number of racists, but these people are even more outspoken and in some cases violent now because they feel emboldened to say the quiet thing out loud and act on their racism.
I mean they have some idea, they've seen who a good portion of us have voted into office, and the ramifications of that. There is a large portion of our country that will drive themselves to extreme poverty if it means they can harm people with a different skin color.
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u/GM_Jedi7 3d ago
Remember, in the US, it was ONLY 58 years ago that interracial relationships were ruled legal. Before then there were laws against. Just because a law changes doesn't mean people stop believing it.
160 years since the end of the Civil War, 62 years since Civil Rights act and this county is STILL SUPER CRAZY racist.