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    Report: Interracial couple evicted from Mississippi RV park... | www.whio.com

    I grew up near the gulf coast in the 90's, and this would've been unusual even back then. Not that there wasn't older people around who didn't think that way, just not actually doing something like that. Then again I've occasionally encountered people that were that racist in places like Ohio, NY, and Penn. also, so it's not a southern thing.
     
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    What right does someone have to tell one minority group which minority group they can't date or marry?
     
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    It's like the US is trying it's best to go back in time...
    Next thing you know they'll be thwacking us with wooden clubs!
     
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    To be fair he did return the check and he said he would rather close his business than having to deal with another interracial couple. I find it kinda funny.
     
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    Sigh... Why... people really do messed-up things. Racist asshole.
     
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    They are.

    And people think the USA is a 'bastion of equality'.
     
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    This is also illegal...it's sad to see such things happening, even today. Yet Mississippi seems to be leading in the 'most backward state' contest, by a pretty good margin, managing to make Alabama look progressive by comparison...and, it should be admitted, Alabama does seem to have a fair number of bastions of sanity, whereas with Mississippi, I seem to see it as a lot worse. Plus, Alabama has the SPLC, and a much richer civil rights history...if I were to move to one of the two for my job, it'd be Alabama.

    I just can't believe the state would stand by, and let this happen.
     
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    There isn't much the state can do on this one. Most businesses comply with the law not only because they don't want fined or their license pulled, but because it's simply good business not to turn business away without a good valid reason. These owners however don't care if they stay in business or not anymore. They're probably older people who lament that things aren't the way they used to be when they were growing up.

    I heard an older person talk about how great things were in America (for him) when he grew up in the fifties to early sixties (the Jim Crow era) :rolle: He didn't happen to remember any of the bad things back then, but being white and male and straight he didn't personally experience any of it. One of the things he said was "America was great back then, not like it is now." It reminded me of a slogan one of the politicians is currently using.
     
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    I see the governor signed 1523 today.

    The people who run Mississippi...yuck
     
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