I usually try & share stories of celebration on #LovingDay as neither I, my siblings or my son would be here without that landmark ruling. #LoveIsLove
But I read this story a few weeks ago & it’s really stuck with me. For reasons obvious & not so..
cnn.com/2019/06/05/eur…
These excerpts provide the best sum:
“The US Army refused permission for black GIs to marry their pregnant white girlfriends & so the babies they gave birth to were branded "illegitimate"
“Between a third & half of the babies are thought to have been placed in children's homes”
And, “..one case in which a black GI who said he wanted to marry his pregnant girlfriend was told by his commanding officer "if you do that you will be charged with rape, & the penalty for rape is death."
Black men want to be husbands & fathers. White supremacy doesn’t allow it.
This is but one example over generations of trauma that Black families have had to endure.
In this case trauma DIRECTLY inflicted by the United States Government. By leaders who no doubt claimed “family values.”
Trauma that persists to this day.
As we celebrate #LovingDay remember the untold # of families that continue to suffer because of policy based in white supremacy ideology.
Know that there are families suffering the same fate at our southern border & throughout our country.
#FamiliesBelongTogether #LoveIsLove
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