{"id":18735,"date":"2016-12-16T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18735"},"modified":"2016-12-17T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T15:35:58","slug":"loving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18735","title":{"rendered":"Loving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I thought I was much younger when I read this story<\/a> in our family’s copy of Life Magazine but it came out when I was 15 years old. Its about the mixed race couple, the Lovings, who successfully challenged the anti-miscegenation laws in the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n

One of the bigoted things (my Buddy’s characterization) I wrote recently was that southern racists fled into the once hated “Party of Lincoln”<\/em> in my lifetime. Evidence of this came out in a notorious 2011 poll showing that 46% of Mississippi Republicans<\/a> thought “miscegenation” should be made illegal again as opposed to 40% who thought it should be legal. If it had been up to the majority President Obama’s mother would have been put in jail.<\/p>\n

We went to see the touching movie “Loving<\/a>” at the Zinema today. Claudia said it was a little long and slow but I suspect it captured the experience lived out by the Lovings. It was a nice antidote to our Birther race baiting President……who, no doubt, never believed a things he said while he was rallying America’s racists. Heck. Now that he’s President he’s making it clear he he didn’t mean anything he said while campaigning to be President<\/a> of the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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