A Moving Post...
...about Obama's ailing grandmother.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I hope this is in good taste
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Likewise, I was looking at this picture of Obama's grandparents and thinking how much he looks like his grandfather. And suddenly, for whatever reason, I was struck by the fact that they had made the decision to love their daughter, no matter what, and love their grandson, no matter what. I'd bet money that they never even thought of themselves as courageous, that they didn't give much thought to the broader struggles in the the world at the time. They were just doing what right, honorable people do. But the fact is that, in the 60s, you could be disowned for falling in love with a black woman or black man.
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Coates' post is already followed by a ton of complimentary comments. I can really empathize with what he says. My grandparents initially had a lot of issues with their daughter marrying a Japanese man, but they also did the right thing, and I'm proud of them.
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I was reading about statutory rape laws in my criminal law textbook. One of the arguments against these statutes is that these laws are often selectively enforced--the guy is charged when the girl's family perceives him as "Other"--racially, economically, "bad crowd", etc. According to this theory, it's often used as a pretext to punish guys for relationships across ethnic & socioeconomic lines.
It got me thinking--when I was 16 I had a 19 y/o bf, statutory rape charges were very much a concern (to him, at least). Would we have been as worried if he had been a "nice Jewish boy," and not a lower-income, Hispanic boy?
So, yeah, kudos to families who do the right thing.
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