..they mean to have it and more. When I first heard this story it seemed like there must have been some sort of misunderstanding. Does the North Carolina GOP really want to ban interracial marriages? I get that republicans want desperately for the supreme court to rule that "religious freedom" should include the right to discriminate on pretty much whatever the rwnj wants, whenever they want, but this? Rachel Maddow & team cover the truly heart wrenching story of Carol And Tom who were denied the right to marry in 1976. It took them 3 years to get married. Now in 2015, married for almost 40 years, Carol Ann and Tom Person are fighting back - again
Rachel Maddow shares the story of a North Carolina woman who, in 1976, was refused a marriage license because her fiance was black, with the magistrate citing his personal religious beliefs. North Carolina is now poised to make that possible again.
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And yes we've all seen how that this latest, yet not new, social wedge to garner support of the Huckabee type bigot keeps an awful lot of the republican base distracted away from the corporatist agenda that is the core and only important driving motivation behind the corporate shell company aka the GOP, But surely no republican voter is so devoid of compassion, fooled, distracted or otherwise so abused by their leadership that they are willing to go back in time prior to even the Jim Crow racial segregation era when 'black codes' were the law in certain states. Here is some of the legislation from America back then over 150 years ago. See if any of 1860's laws have something in common with the 21st century GOP laws we're witnessing all over the country.
These black codes were modeled after the slave codes that were placed before the civil war. These codes not only restricted the lives of many African Americans, but also created a physical separation between blacks and whites that had not existed before the war. Although African Americans were now legally free, this freedom meant nothing with the black codes in law With legal prohibitions of slavery ordered by the Emancipation Proclamation, acts of state legislature, and eventually the Thirteenth Amendment, Southern states adopted new laws to regulate Black life.
Vagrancy was a big hit with former slavers. Kind of an all-purpose vehicle to skirt the law: • Mississippi was the first state to pass Black Codes. Its laws served as a model for those passed by other states, beginning with South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana in 1865, and continuing with Florida, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Arkansas at the beginning of 1866 • Black Codes restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces • A central element of the Black Codes were vagrancy laws, in which states classified not working as criminal behavior. Failure to pay a certain tax, or to comply with other laws, could also be construed as vagrancy • Negroes were not allowed to vote, hold office, sit on juries, serve in local militia, carry guns on plantations, homestead, or attend public schools • Interracial marriage was banned • Kentucky had established a system of leasing prison labor in 1825 • Tennessee: The legislature passed two laws on May 17, 1865; one to "Punish all Armed Prowlers, Guerilla, Brigands, and Highway Robbers"; the other to authorize capital punishment for thefts, burglary, and arson. These laws were targeted at Blacks and enforced disproportionately against Blacks, but did not discuss race explicitly These are but a few of the laws back then. So when we hear the aggrieved cries from the true sufferers on the right:
"We want our country back !"
- And hearing this modern day version of the "vagrancy" meme updated and put into words ripped off from "conservatives" dating back as early as the 1870's from a Paul Ryan type pretending it's a new thing; accusing: "..able-bodied people into lives of complacency and dependency " because of a “tail spin of culture in our inner cities” shows that nothing has really changed with the "conservative movement". No autopsy, no stealing of progressive Dems rhetoric, no nothing will change what the corporate owned GOP is all about. - Indeed they do want "their" country back. NC senate Bill 2 or rather, the controlling "special interests" that fund the GOP seem to have decided that there is no bottom to the level they will stoop to foment hatred enough to keep all eyes off the top 1 % shenanigans. Amplifying the (hopefully) minority republican base that actually does believe whites and their version of a God should run this country seems to be what we'll be seeing a lot more of This is white supremacy all over again propelled and financed by a ruling few re-rearing its ugly head. There is just no honest way to get around this malignancy in today's society as a fact - imo
- with one last thing (Rachel Maddow video): Senator Bernie Sanders has voiced a challenge that I'd bet many Americans/voters on both sides would like to see. More debates with Dems and republicans in not just the general as is the norm, but in the primary debates. Love to see these GOP rookies answer the questions of a man of Bernie's knowledge, experience and honesty/Integrity - on a national stage
I'm running late and will be back after awhile - Thank you for stopping by