It was the summer of 1958, when Richard and Mildred Loving were a new couple sleeping in bed. All of a sudden the police, which were armed, slammed in their house arresting both of them and throwing them in jail, for getting married. But, why? Getting married isn’t a bad thing is it? Well if you married a different race, apparently in the 1950’s and especially in Virginia state, it was bad. The certificate of the new couple's marriage was from Washington D.C. , but under the law of Virginia state, two people of different races can not marry each other. Richard Loving was a white man who fell in love with a black woman, Mildred Loving, and married her. After five weeks of their marriage, they were arrested. They spent several days in jail …show more content…
Once in awhile they returned back to their hometown, but never dared to return together. They were the first married couple in the United States that were different races. At the time it was prohibited in 31 states of America to marry a different type of race. But as time passed by, racism decreased which made Mildred Loving open a case for their situation, their case went to the Supreme Court. Which led to legalization of interracial marriage in 1967 by the United States Supreme Court, but not all the states did it at the same time, it mostly took time for the southern states to change their constitution, the last state to change their constitution was Alabama; they changed it in the 2000. Even though it was legalized, not everybody agrees with it. Associate professor of sociology at Hunter College, Erica Chito Childs, says “As much as we hear that interracial couples have become more common and are acceptable, people like to pretend that they don’t get stared at and get extra attention, but they do.” Well why does it even matter if not everybody agrees with it or not, because interracial couples face discrimination, prejudice and outright hatred. Don’t believe …show more content…
It’s most likely the people they have to deal with is a problem.” And it’s true. Peer pressure and most of all their family might not agree with them at all. Because they might believe that when you marry a different race it might not be normal, or choosing the identity of the children might become a problem. For example there has been a research done about that most of interracial marriages in the United States are black and white. Though when they have children, their child will neither be black nor white; even though in our american culture ‘half black’ = ‘black’. Most white families do not want to accept that, especially shown in the movie “White or Black”. For government, medical, school forms it usually asks for what type of race their child is. For most parents it is a struggle to determine what race their child is. So they usually chooses two boxes. A vote has been done on Community Babycenter for what box do parents choose for their black and other race child, and the statistics say that 93% of parents choose the ‘other/one or more races’ box, 5% chooses ‘black’ box, and 2% chooses ‘white, asian, hispanic, etc’. As we can see most parents choose the box ‘other’ and it’s not a problem. I think most parents already know that they won’t be able to choose more than one race in a federal document, so they choose the ‘other’ box. I has also been proven that