So I know the Looking Glass (or "are you a tool too”, I'm a little sketchy on the title myself lately) hasn't gotten many updates for a few months, but I'm looking to remedy this situation.
And this story seemed the perfect opportunity to do so.
NEW ORLEANS – A white 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."
Wow.
You know, there are a lot of things I can say, but whenever I hear about people like this, the first thought on my mind is "how does a person like this think?" Do you think in his mind, its still 1957? Does he sit outside on his porch every morning, his delusional mind picturing his all white neighbors walking their dogs and all white children playing in the park across the street? Does he think, "well, it sure is hot today, thank god all them colored folk have their own segregated water fountains to cool themselves off?”
Meanwhile his black orderly is probably coming up behind him, leading his wheelchair into the hospital parlor, undoing his straight jacket so he can eat his hominy for breakfast.
This is obviously an odd situation: like a movie from the 1990's starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington about an interracial couple set in 1930's Georgia where the lovers are eventually chased out of town by a torch & pitchfork bearing lynch mob and Denzel makes a deft and poetic speech about how his people will "overcome someday."
Personally, I'll keep watching. Partially because of shock, but mainly due to curiosity on how a state official that opposes interracial marriage survives in a country with a black president.
Source: Associated press, Yahoo! news
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The thing that really catches my attention here is that he made a point of letting everyone know that he lets his black friends shit in his toilet.
"I'm not racist! Some of my best friends are black!"
Idiot.
why not:)
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