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Today, US Republican senator Mike Braun of Indiana said that the Supreme Court was wrong to overturn the ban on interracial marriage in 1967.

Braun specifically said the Supreme Court should have left abortion and interracial marriage to the states. He said it was wrong to legalize interracial marriages nationwide.

And unsurprisingly he says this while evaluating the candidacy of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who herself is in an interracial marriage. Mind you this is the Republican Party that had two members of the house speak at white nationalist conferences in the last month. A party whose current leader calls nazis “very fine people”.

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Graylight · 51-55, F

Race is low-hanging fruit. And the riper and more rotten the fruit, the better for the GOP.

Braun's trying to make the argument that this issue is a state issue versus a federal one. What he's actually promoting is the idea that interracial marriage is wrong.

This is a favorite game of the conservatives - to hide overt racism behind seemingly normal arguments. That way, they can deny they ever said anything outwardly racist.

Randi1125 · 31-35, F

@Graylight

Whew! Braun failed today. He was transparent about his racism. Disgusting.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@Randi1125 Racism always is. As one man once said in a rare moment of wisdom, "Can't we all just get along?"

Vivaci

These dimwits should have studied genetics in college…if only they go back to their roots, they’ll find that their ancestors were black! 😆🤣

God does have a good sense of humor…I wish someone publishes this fact in all magazines and TV channels so that they know who they’re going against! 🙄

Randi1125 · 31-35, F

@Vivaci

I doubt they study much of anything.

Btw, I'm agnostic but I hear you.

Vivaci

@Randi1125 Oh yeah…they don’t understand basics…which is why they are what they are.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Vivaci

they’ll find that their ancestors were black!

Yeah, they don’t believe that one bit. And the commercial dna tests don’t support it (goes too far back). So they feel perfectly secure expressing overt racism—and then accusing others of racism for calling them racists ! It’s pretty ridiculous. 😳

spjennifer · 56-60, T

I would love to introduce this little pustule to an Interracial couple I happen to know, she is trans and white, and he is African American, they are legally married and have 2 adopted Asian children who are now about 10. Both parents are retired Military and highly decorated. I would just love to see this little weasel wither under the gaze of such people!

Graylight · 51-55, F

@spjennifer uh--- Too late. His head just exploded.

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@Graylight Indeed, just like the little pustule he is! 🤪

bijouxbroussard · F

Yes, another poster was discussing this.
Makes me wonder if the GOP’s forgotten that their fellow, Clarence Thomas, is also interracially married, especially since black man/white woman couples have been especially distasteful to those people. Thomas, who was a dissenter of Obergefell v. Hodges (marriage equality), is clearly clueless about where he fits in.

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MildlyInappropriate · 51-55, M

PERFECTLY STATED!! @bijouxbroussard

bijouxbroussard · F

@Randi1125 And this isn’t new, of course, states did demand that right until Loving v. Virginia. The "land of the free" allowed states to interfere in the most personal life decisions of their citizens. And the GOP’s trying to take us back there. People were laughing when I said they’d take us back to Jim Crow if they could. But here we go. Ron Paul also said he wouldn’t have passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that stopped states from being able to have "whites only" schools, businesses, hospitals, churches, etc. even though it was ruled that "separate but equal" wasn’t. And it was unconstitutional.

Docdon23 · M

@bijouxbroussard I was going to add that myself!! Intrude in lives when it is THEIR interpretation of morality...including in women's bodies and in our bedrooms...

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

The Repubs = the Jim Crow KKK party. Jackson should have asked him if the Jim Crow laws were constitutional and if he had ever read the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

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Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User

CorvusBlackthorne · M

I don't understand. How much more blatant must these people be before it is clear to their voters?

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independentone · M

@CorvusBlackthorne Their voters are racists themselves, so not surprising they keep voting these idiots into power

bijouxbroussard · F

@independentone That’s it exactly. Why would they fight someone saying openly what they quietly agree with ? 😞

independentone · M

@bijouxbroussard Sad, isn't it? This country is truly turning into one of those "Shithole" countries Trump was talking about.

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