50 years ago

[Tommy Tainant]

11 #LovingDay tweets to celebrate 50 years of legal interracial marriage

How far most of us have come in that time.

 

[Bush92]

50 years ago we were a great nation...well...fucking LBJ was in office. When the slide began.

 

[Auld Phart]

50 years ago, I graduated High School.

5 years before that, my cousin married a black woman.

Personally, I, nor my family, thought it was all that big a deal

 

[ScienceRocks]

50 years ago, I graduated High School.

5 years before that, my cousin married a black woman.

Personally, I, nor my family, thought it was all that big a deal

So you support being different. That's great...

 

[Auld Phart]

50 years ago, I graduated High School.

5 years before that, my cousin married a black woman.

Personally, I, nor my family, thought it was all that big a deal

So you support being different. That's great...

Great uncle Red was gay

Hated to see him come up home from Florida with his partner on vacation.

(he cheated at cards)

and he, and his partner of nearly 50 years, would have been very vocal about same sex marriage...

they would have been totally against it.