Will Interracial Marriage Be Outlawed in Some States?
Losing abortion rights is horrifying enough, but the U.S. political scene also continues to be influenced by dangerous White supremacist ideology.
The tragic Buffalo shooting was influenced by the great replacement theory. Payton Gendron claimed that white people were essentially being wiped out due to low birth rates as a supposed genocide.
The damaging and outlandish great replacement theory claims that the immigration of racial minorities is an attempt to have fewer White people in the population so that the Republicans will not win due to White people being the most likely to vote for them.
He is not the only racist person who fears a declining White population. Appallingly, Indiana’s Senator Mike Braun revealed that he is against the Loving v. Virginia ruling. It established a constitutional right to interracial marriage.
Prior to that both interracial marriage and sex had been illegal in Virginia under the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 — a law that Virginia had tried to uphold by claiming that it could make things equally difficult for people of any race.
That law was created under the assumption interracial relationships were inherently tainting through keeping people from having entirely White heritage.
