With all of the hot air surrounding Falcon Heene, our favorite barfing balloon boy, I wonder how many people missed this disturbing incident in the news Thursday. Seems Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace and backward lame ass racist in Tangipahoa Parish in the southeastern part of Louisiana, denied to marry Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, an interracial couple. Really? I was unaware that it was still 1961 in Louisiana.
Bardwell, known to friends and neighbors as a steaming pile of ignorant human excrement, actually came out and stated the reason why he never officiates the marriage of an interracial couple is due to his concern for the children any said marriage might produce. Huh? Yes, our society has produced some pretty screwed up kids as a result of folks of a different color starting a family.
Here’s just a few underachievers whose very existance was no doubt steered toward a life of misery and woe because mom and dad were black and white.
Thankfully, Louisiana Governor Jindel and other politicians are grabbing themselves some sound bite and camera time by calling for Bardwell’s head. Clearly, he’s broken the law, as a licensed Justice of the Peace is obligated to serve the public in completion of their duties. They can’t decide for themselves who they’d like to serve and who they’d like to deny their civil rights. Plenty of other civil rights organizations are also seeking this idiot out to force his license to be revoked, and perhaps be bitch slapped by an agitated Panda.
This blatant racism is disturbing on many levels. Perhaps a little more disturbing to our Giddy family as ours is an interracial marriage. I’m a light skinned human and my wife is a dark skinned android. Funny thing is, we never give the interracial thing a single thought – we just happen to like each other based on who we are. Oh sure, we find ourselves getting some pretty shitty tables in restaurants, and some suspicious looks at the local Aryan Nation ice cream socials, but we really never think about it. But when you hear stories like this you realize that racism still permeates throughout our society – and we have a long way to go, until small minded fucktards like Bardwell are forever swallowed by their own idiocy.What a shame too for the disgrace this brings on to the state of Louisiana as well, in that this moron has been allowed to operate as a representative for them. Louisiana has produced the Manning’s, Mahalia Jackson and Fat Tuesday plus, New Orleans is our second favorite city – spending the first week of our interracial marriage there just a couple of weeks before Katrina hit.
Wouldn’t it be nice if this sort of small minded thinking could just be swept away? It won’t, for as long as there’s ignorance there will be prejudice, and they walk hand in hand.
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One of my personal favorites, most people have no idea how fucked up people are until they are in situations of targeted racism. Good job whitey!
It makes me want to puke, too. I haven't been to any good Aryan Nation socials lately. I hear they always meet on Halloween. Honestly, racism is a waste of human intellect. A mind is a terrible thing to waste in the pursuit of destroying the human spirit.
Reading your post made me think of Tina Turners song "What's love got to do with it". Apparently nothing according to the dumb ass who thinks it's all about race. It's time for all the closed minded people to stop looking at what's on the outside and concentrate on the person on the inside. Great post.
I remember Falcon and his family from when they appeared on "Wife Swap". Falcon's dad came off as a total nut case so this turn of events really didn't surprise me.
Thank you for including Tom and Helen Willis in your post. Maybe not the first interracial couple on TV, (Lucy & Ricky Ricardo?) but definitely the funniest.
And Tom made such a great foil for George. "HONKEY!"
I still chuckle.
I saw it. I have to agree that it is pretty messed up. I was quite surprised. I'm pleased to know that the resident politicians in Louisiana are just as appalled as the rest of us. It should be interesting to see how this plays out for the judge...
Makes no damn difference what the color of your skin is, duh. Everyones the same color on the inside.
I can't believe you found a clip of a very STRANGE singing trio. HA HA
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at your post. So damn funny and so sadly true.
Thanks to all for your comments!
Chrissy: I’m thinking that if perhaps you refrained from calling me Whitey in public – we’d stand a chance of getting a better table at the restaurant.
Lauren: This year’s social should be a hoot with Halloween falling on a Saturday! I’ll forward you an evite.
Ann: A common sense approach no doubt – if only people could accept that people are people. But, they don’t so we’ll keep pointing them out!
Me Me: Happy to see more than just his balloon is coming down now ;)
C: One of our all time favorites! Did you know that Roxie Roker who played Helen was Lenny Kravitz’ real life mother? Tom, was not the dad however.
Mom: Can’t wait to find out who his accomplices were.
Glenn: It’s a shame Dana Plato never had the chance to fully follow her singing dreams – she and Janet could have made quite a pair. Todd Bridges…not so much.
NP – if you feel like crying – might as well laugh, it feels better!
I don't think I'll ever understand why some people get so hung up on what a person LOOKS like. It's what they ACT like that makes them who they are. And I agree that the JP should get his ticket jerked. And he should be rewarded with whatever the law says his punishment should be.
BTW, I love the picture of you with your beautiful android. Can't see why anyone would give such a good looking couple anything but the best seat in the house.
Thanks Clara - I guess we'll never know why people can't judge people by what makes them up rather than what they're made up to look like.
Oh, and the table thing is probably more in part to my horrific table manners than my lovely android!
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