Posts Tagged ‘interracial marriage’

Black men, marrying black, marrying white

Monday, February 9th, 2009

“Barack Obama is one of the few men that we have seen who is a black man who has a very, very dark-skinned wife. She’s very dark skinned for normally what you see. And I wondered to myself, would he be electable if he had a white wife?” – Whoopi Goldberg confessed to having been [...]

Is gay marriage and interracial marriage similar?

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

In 1960’s, it was illegal to marry interracially. Now we have Proposition 8, a state measure on the ballot this election, which intends to prohibit gay marriages. The laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional and those against Proposition 8 will say it is unconstitutional to put homosexuals in the same position. Is the gay marriage [...]