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‘Senator Says Legalizing Interracial Marriage Was a Mistake, Backtracks Unconvincingly’

A long overdue reckoning with this country’s shameful history of miscegenation has been inaugurated by Indiana Republican Mike Braun. Indiana will apparently be the first in the nation to introduce a Population Registration Act, in which all Hoosiers will be classified as one of the following

1.native

2.colored

3.Asian

4.white

Margaret Soltan, March 23, 2022 6:27AM
Posted in: chief inspiration officer

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2 Responses to “‘Senator Says Legalizing Interracial Marriage Was a Mistake, Backtracks Unconvincingly’”

  1. Matt McKeon Says:

    My brother taught in South Africa in the bad old days. A teacher from Japan at their school was classified as “white” during the school day, and “colored” after hours.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Matt: Makes me think of that famous Zorba song:

    Oh I am colored on a Monday, a Tuesday,
    A Wednesday, and Saturday’s all right.
    But never never on Sunday a Sunday a Sunday
    For that’s my day of white…

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