{"id":54091,"date":"2017-06-04T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54091"},"modified":"2017-06-04T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:02","slug":"how-interracial-love-is-saving-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54091","title":{"rendered":"How Interracial Love Is Saving America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/03\/opinion\/sunday\/how-interracial-love-is-saving-america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>How Interracial Love Is Saving America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-06-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sheryllcashin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sheryll Cashin<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/03\/opinion\/sunday\/how-interracial-love-is-saving-america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/06\/04\/opinion\/sunday\/04cashinSUB\/04cashinSUB-master768.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Mildred and Richard Loving in 1965.<br \/>\n<em>Credit Estate of Grey Villet<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As a descendant of slaves and slaveholders, I embody uncomfortable incongruities \u2014 just as America does. In \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notes on the State of Virginia<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> wrote with anguish about the risks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amalgamation<\/a>, or interracial sex, to a new nation. Whites were \u201cstained\u201d when they mixed with blacks, whom he speculated were inferior in mind and form.<\/p>\n<p>There was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strom_Thurmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strom Thurmond<\/a>-esque artificiality to this cry for racial purity. Southern patriarchs made an art out of objecting to what was happening under their own noses \u2014 or pelvises. As history would prove, human urges, whether violent or amorous, inevitably muddy lines, and master-slave rape and coupling produced many mixed people.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the \u201cardent integrators\u201d who pursue interracial relationships are motivated by love and are our greatest hope for racial understanding. Although America is in a state of toxic polarity, I am optimistic. Through intimacy across racial lines, a growing class of whites has come to value and empathize with African-Americans and other minorities. They are not dismantling white supremacy so much as chipping away at it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/03\/opinion\/sunday\/how-interracial-love-is-saving-america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a descendant of slaves and slaveholders, I embody uncomfortable incongruities \u2014 just as America does. In \u201cNotes on the State of Virginia,\u201d Thomas Jefferson wrote with anguish about the risks of amalgamation, or interracial sex, to a new nation. Whites were \u201cstained\u201d when they mixed with blacks, whom he speculated were inferior in mind and form.<\/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],"tags":[70,2640,11439,2327],"class_list":["post-54091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-new-york-times","tag-sheryll-cashin","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54091","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=54091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54093,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54091\/revisions\/54093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}