Anyone that has read my stuff knows that I live in the cultural wasteland known as the “Deep South”….and in the past I have said they need to erect a sign at the statelines that read “Welcome to the Deep South, set your clocks back a 150 years”.
Yes, it is the 21st century but that makes little difference to the people in the Deep South…the area that voted against a black man in an election…..Wylie Coyote could have won the state…but they are not racists! Just ask them…they have a pretty good way of telling you that they are not a racist….but if you listen closely to their rants…they are racists….
CNN had a story that seemsd out of place in today’s world…but then it is the South….
Civil rights advocates in eastern Louisiana are calling for a justice of the peace of Tangipahoa Parish to resign after he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple.
The demands for Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish’s 8th Ward, to step down came after he wouldn’t issue a marriage license to Beth Humphrey, 30, and her boyfriend, Terence McKay, 32, both of Hammond.
However, Bardwell told Hammond’s Daily Star newspaper that he was concerned for the children who might be born of the relationship and that, in his experience, most interracial marriages don’t last.
“I’m not a racist,” Bardwell told the newspaper. “I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. My main concern is for the children.”
Bardwell, stressing that he couldn’t personally endorse the marriage, said his wife referred the couple to another justice of the peace.
The bride says the case boils down to discrimination.
Humphrey told CNN that she called Bardwell on October 6 to ask about getting a marriage license, and was asked by his wife whether it would be an interracial marriage. Humphrey said she was told that Bardwell does not sign off on interracial marriages.
His concern is for the children of mixed marriages….I have heard this argument many times down here in the Deep South….like what culture would they raise they children…it is a cop out…raise them as an Americans….pretty simple, huh?
But the BS about concern for the children reaches all the way back to the beginning of the country…Jefferson, who I have heard cursed the act of slavery but his only attack on the institution was to say:
There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous, the most unremitting despotism on the one part. degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate…….”
Jefferson’s only concern was what effect the institution of slavery would have on children and yet historians would have us believe that he wrote the “slavery clause” that was later deleted from the DoI. The defense will be, “things were different in those days”….a racist is a racist no matter what day it is…..
The justice used a tired old cliche to prove that he is not a racist…..”I have lots of black friends, they even use my bathroom and have eaten dinner with them”…..I paraphrase, but you get my drift…this is they type of thing every racist in the South will use in some form or another to prove that they are a racist.
You see things have not changed much in the Deep South in 50 years…some are just better at hiding their true self from the media….and then there are the ones like this justice….as obvious as hell!