A lesson from Mildred Loving

You probably don’t know Mildred Loving, but you know what she accomplished. She was an African-American woman who met and feel in love with a white man. They married in Washington. After marrying they returned to Virginia where they were from. They were promptly arrested for “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the
Commonwealth”. They only avoided jail, yes JAIL, by leaving the state.

But their experience caused them to take the issue up with the courts, and in 1967 the Supreme Court ruled such laws were illegal, a true landmark in American history .

So here we have yet another example of past flow blockages from a societal standpoint. Society, in this case the state of Virginia, was legally stating that it was a sin and immoral for interracial couples to exist, much less marry.

And, as with all past flow blockages, today things are radically different. Just turn on any reality show involving dating and you will see numerous interracial couples and no on blinks an eye.

Just more proof that when you encounter societal flow blockages today (gay marriage was a great recent example) that such blockages will seem quaint, if not silly, in years to come.