{"id":54312,"date":"2017-06-27T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54312"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:31:09","slug":"one-possible-antidote-to-the-misappropriation-of-multiracial-identity-is-for-loving-day-celebrations-to-focus-upon-what-was-the-ultimate-civil-rights-objective-of-the-loving-v-virginia-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54312","title":{"rendered":"One possible antidote to the misappropriation of multiracial identity is for Loving Day celebrations to focus upon what was the ultimate civil rights objective of the Loving v. Virginia decision \u2013 the impermissible pursuit of what the Supreme Court there termed \u201cWhite Supremacy.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One possible antidote to the misappropriation of multiracial identity is for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loving Day<\/a> celebrations to focus upon what was the ultimate civil rights objective of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a> decision \u2013 the impermissible pursuit of what the Supreme Court there termed \u201cWhite Supremacy.\u201d This is because interracial bans only prohibited interracial marriage involving white persons. Fifty years later, after the <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> decision, interracial marriage bans no longer exist, but White Supremacist violence and rhetoric still flourish. Whether or not Loving Day ever becomes an official federal holiday, it is to be hoped that its celebrations will specifically commemorate the decision\u2019s fundamental civil rights concern with racial hierarchy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tanya K. Hern\u00e1ndez, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What the\u201cLoving Day\u201d 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> Court Decision Really Need \u2013 A Challenge to Ongoing White Supremacy<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Huffington Post<\/em>, June 11, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/593b4961e4b094fa859f1878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/593b4961e4b094fa859f1878<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One possible antidote to the misappropriation of multiracial identity is for Loving Day celebrations to focus upon what was the ultimate civil rights objective of the Loving v. Virginia decision \u2013 the impermissible pursuit of what the Supreme Court there termed \u201cWhite Supremacy.\u201d This is because interracial bans only prohibited interracial marriage involving white persons. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10108,5006,70,2113,5161,2112,2425],"class_list":["post-54312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-huffington-post","tag-loving-day","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54312","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=54312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54315,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54312\/revisions\/54315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}