50 Years of Loving: Essay
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Black Crow, Robert Bracamontes
Issue Date
2017-06
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50
Issue
3
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Our input into how society is structured and functions is often discarded, because the colonized are not supposed to analyze the slave master's authority or blessings. In 1967, I was thirteen years old and fell in love with a girl named Pat, and today, we have been married for almost forty years. We walked holding hands as we passed my family's home. After several weeks my mother asked who was the Chinese girl. It was the very first time in my life that I realized that Pat was different. Many might say we were lucky that Loving v. Virginia helped make this marriage possible. But what did it actually allow? It gave us permission to become part of the societal experience reserved for those in control of a white supremacist society. It was a road to assimilation...
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Creighton University School of Law