Mr and Mrs Loving
I read an article that says 1 in every 12 marriages is now between an inter-racial couple. What was once a crime, then taboo and then strange, is now only just a little bit unusual. This got me to wondering what the average person on the planet will look like in a few hundred years. Maybe in a lot less the way things are going!
They say that the typical face on the planet is that of a 28 year old Asian, simply because there are so many billions of them here today. There is also this terrific computer generated picture of what the future person in America will look like.
A tip of the hat to Mr and Mrs Loving who in 1967 (such a short time ago!) fought in the United States Supreme Court to declare Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.
I read an article that says 1 in every 12 marriages is now between an inter-racial couple. What was once a crime, then taboo and then strange, is now only just a little bit unusual. This got me to wondering what the average person on the planet will look like in a few hundred years. Maybe in a lot less the way things are going!
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