Love Has No Color
Love Has No Color
Written by Stephanie Figueroa
Kingsborough Community College
Sociology 3100
Partners amongst interracial relationships have been experienced and full of content ever since the 1600s. From laws of abolishment to the percentage of young America whom take part in an interracial romance, this particular group of individuals who believe in miscegenation didn’t let anything nor anyone interfere with their right to love. The battle has ended but still raises eyebrows to some individuals who just can’t accept the fact of anyone marrying outside of their race till this very day. Even though it may seem wrong to some, their judgment can’t ever out-beat the amount of courage and pride a couple may share, the Loving vs. Virginia case is definitely the perfect example of a such couple. Romance amongst people outside of their races has been a point of happiness in the United Stated since the first English settlers established colonies in the seventeenth century. Maryland banned interracial marriage in 1664 due to inquiring of whether the child of a slave and a white individual would be considered a free person or property. Later on the states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina decided on anti-miscegenation laws which banned interracial marriage. Virginia forbid interracial couples and their children would be considered as “that abominable mixture and spurious issue.” in 1691. When slavery was extinguished by the thirteenth amendment in 1865, many southern states established what were known as the “Black Codes.” These codes continued the restriction of marriage between whites and blacks. This was based on the commonly held an approach that Africans, and Native Americans as well, were subordinated races and incest would deprave the white gene pool. When Congress tried to override the “Black Codes” by issuing a series of laws from 1866 to 1875, the Supreme Court announced most of the legislation abandoned and
Written by Stephanie Figueroa
Kingsborough Community College
Sociology 3100
Partners amongst interracial relationships have been experienced and full of content ever since the 1600s. From laws of abolishment to the percentage of young America whom take part in an interracial romance, this particular group of individuals who believe in miscegenation didn’t let anything nor anyone interfere with their right to love. The battle has ended but still raises eyebrows to some individuals who just can’t accept the fact of anyone marrying outside of their race till this very day. Even though it may seem wrong to some, their judgment can’t ever out-beat the amount of courage and pride a couple may share, the Loving vs. Virginia case is definitely the perfect example of a such couple. Romance amongst people outside of their races has been a point of happiness in the United Stated since the first English settlers established colonies in the seventeenth century. Maryland banned interracial marriage in 1664 due to inquiring of whether the child of a slave and a white individual would be considered a free person or property. Later on the states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina decided on anti-miscegenation laws which banned interracial marriage. Virginia forbid interracial couples and their children would be considered as “that abominable mixture and spurious issue.” in 1691. When slavery was extinguished by the thirteenth amendment in 1865, many southern states established what were known as the “Black Codes.” These codes continued the restriction of marriage between whites and blacks. This was based on the commonly held an approach that Africans, and Native Americans as well, were subordinated races and incest would deprave the white gene pool. When Congress tried to override the “Black Codes” by issuing a series of laws from 1866 to 1875, the Supreme Court announced most of the legislation abandoned and