Loving Day

[nanila]

I had wanted to post this yesterday, as it was the 50th anniversary, but ran out of time. So, a day late, but no less important: Here is my very personal celebration of the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision, handed down on 12 June 1967, that legalised interracial marriage in the USA.

Without it, my parents might have been jailed or permanently separated. Without it, I might not exist. I am grateful that what was just and correct prevailed in the face of popular opinion.


[Image of my dad, baby!me and my mom, with one of my aunties in the pool at a Honolulu hotel. Photo taken by my maternal grandfather.]


[Image of me in a flowery yellow dress being cuddled, and surrounded, by my Filipino cousins and aunties.]

Comments

[paw_prints]

It's terrible that interracial marriage was ever illegal in the first place, but the fact that it didn't become legal until 1967 just blows my mind!! That's almost within my own lifetime.

Lovely, lovely photos! You have a beautiful family! And like others have said - baby Keiko is the dead spit of you when you were wee (sunny smile included)!

[nanila]

I don't think all states had explicit anti-miscegenation laws on the books, but the decision by the Supreme Court rendered all of the ones that did, moot.

Thank you! I'm very lucky to have quite a lot of photos from my early childhood. My maternal grandfather and my parents were shutterbugs.

Keiki is aptly nicknamed for more than one reason. In Hawai'ian, it means "small child", so that's an obvious choice. But in horticulture (and I didn't know this when I picked it for internet usage), a keiki is a plant produced asexually by an orchid plant. The baby plant is an exact clone of the mother plant. ^.^