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I totally missed posting this on #LovingDay2020, but Mildred Jeter was Rappahannock, and their marriage license has her listed as “Indian,” this case has significance for understanding blood quantum given Virginia’s archaic one drop rule.
The one-drop rule was used against anyone with Black ancestry to showcase “impurity” whereas, blood quantum for Indigenous Peoples was used against us to showcase “purity”.
Blackness was/is considered expansive. Yet, indigeneity was/is not.
Blackness was/is considered expansive. Yet, indigeneity was/is not.
These are important to understand give anti-Blackness within the colonizing US, especially among Indigenous communities. The one drop rule has been used against Black folks, especially mixed Black folks, to continue their enslavement and disenfranchise them.
53 years ago, Mildred and Richard Loving made history when the Supreme Court ruled that all interracial marriage bans were unconstitutional. It was a landmark decision that struck down laws that restricted Americans from loving one another.
#LovingDay
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They risked their lives for their love and they should be honored not just today, but every day.
That is why I'm publicly asking that the Virginia government change the name of the Jefferson Davis Highway to the Mildred and Richard Loving Highway.
#LovingVsVirginia
That is why I'm publicly asking that the Virginia government change the name of the Jefferson Davis Highway to the Mildred and Richard Loving Highway.
#LovingVsVirginia
People would see that we are proud of our citizens fighting for what is right. They would see that Virginia welcomes them from wherever they come from. No matter who they are, they’ve found a place they can call home. They would see Virginia is for lovers.
#LovingDay2020
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