{"id":52111,"date":"2017-03-06T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52111"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:25:17","slug":"what-if-the-court-in-the-loving-case-had-declared-race-a-false-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52111","title":{"rendered":"What if the Court in the Loving Case Had Declared Race a False Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/06\/opinion\/what-if-the-court-in-the-loving-case-had-declared-race-a-false-idea.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What if the Court in the Loving Case Had Declared Race a False Idea?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentNYT\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brent Staples<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/06\/opinion\/what-if-the-court-in-the-loving-case-had-declared-race-a-false-idea.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/03\/06\/opinion\/06mon3web\/06mon3web-master768.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Mildred Loving greeting her husband Richard on their front porch in Virginia.<br \/>\n<em>Credit Estate of Grey Villet<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_McAuliffe\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Terry McAuliffe<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> struck a resonant historical note last year when he <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.virginia.gov\/newsroom\/proclamations\/proclamation\/loving-day-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">proclaimed<\/a> June 12 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_Day\" target=\"_blank\">Loving Day<\/a>,\u201d in commemoration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a>, the 1967 Supreme Court decision that invalidated state laws across the country that restricted interracial marriage.<\/p>\n<p>That Virginia would celebrate the decision was symbolically rich, given that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richmond,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond<\/a> had been the capital of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Confederacy<\/a> under <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jefferson_Davis\" target=\"_blank\">Jefferson Davis<\/a> and the seat of a virulently racist legislature that diligently translated white supremacist aspirations into law.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Loving<\/em> decision turns 50 this summer, which will give the annual festivals, picnics and house parties held in its honor a special gravity. But the recent re-emergence of white supremacist ideology in political discourse lends an inescapably political cast to this celebration of interracialism.<\/p>\n<p>As this drama unfolds, historians and legal scholars are criticizing aspects of the <em>Loving<\/em> decision, including the court\u2019s failure to repudiate the myth of white racial \u201cpurity\u201d upon which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14135\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia\u2019s statute<\/a> was based&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/06\/opinion\/what-if-the-court-in-the-loving-case-had-declared-race-a-false-idea.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia struck a resonant historical note last year when he proclaimed June 12 \u201cLoving Day,\u201d in commemoration of Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court decision that invalidated state laws across the country that restricted interracial marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,20,693],"tags":[1804,10148,1272,70,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-52111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-brent-staples","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52116,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52111\/revisions\/52116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}