Was Mildred Loving a Civil Rights hero? She should be.
Mildred said she considered her marriage and the court decision to be "God's work". She supported everyone's right to marry whomever they wished. In 1965, while the case was pending, she told the Washington Evening Star, "We loved each other and got married. We are not marrying the state. The law should allow a person to marry anyone he wants."
On June 12, 2007, Mildred issued a statement on the 40th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision.
She concluded:
[quote] My generation was bitterly divided over something that should have been so clear and right. The majority believed that what the judge said, that it was God's plan to keep people apart, and that government should discriminate against people in love. But I have lived long enough now to see big changes. The older generation's fears and prejudices have given way, and today's young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry.
[quote] Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don't think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person" for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people's religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people's civil rights.
[quote] I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 20, 2022 3:08 AM
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Mildred and her family were beautiful.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 19, 2022 5:49 PM
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Their name was so poetic.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 19, 2022 5:50 PM
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Her husband seemed developmentally disabled. Like he wanted to marry someone to be his mom. He acted like a big child.
One of Mildred’s grandchildren insists his grandmother was 100% Native American, not African American. Like many blacks people in the south she checked off “Native American” on application forms because it was easier to be Native American down south than to be black. It was also easier for native Americans to marry whites than it was for African American to marry whites.
Apparently, Mildred was a tad racist. She insisted she was Native American, not African.
[quote] And Mildred continued to identify as such right up until her death. Time‘s author Arica L. Coleman noted when she interviewed the interracial marriage pioneer in 2004, she told her plainly:
[quote] “I am not Black. I have no Black ancestry. I am Indian-Rappahannock. I told the people so when they came to arrest me.”
Mildred’s grandson insists there were “black aboriginal” people in the Americans before whites brought Africans to the US during slavery.
[quote] The aboriginal people of North America, particularly the eastern seaboard, were black. Black Americans are descendants of these black aboriginal and the enslaved Africans brought over in human bondage. A LOT, and usually the MAJORITY, of your ancestors who were slaves were free black aboriginals who were enslaved on their own land, right here in the Americas
I guess it’s like the Black Hebrews who claim their religion was co-opted by some middle eastern dudes.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 19, 2022 6:22 PM
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Wow, that tombstone shows her husband only lived to be 42.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 19, 2022 11:53 PM
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He was killed in a car crash, R4.
Mildred lost one eye in that crash, too.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 20, 2022 2:06 AM
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How said that she only got to have him for such a short time.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 20, 2022 3:08 AM
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