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smh at Virginia being an example for prohibitions against interracial marriages

“While the Nazis praised ‘the American commitment to legislating racial purity,’ they could not abide ‘the unforgiving hardness’ under which ‘an American man or woman who has even a drop of Negro blood in their veins counted as blacks’…’the one drop rule was too harsh for the Nazis.’”

“we in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even…We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it.” pg 16

“caste makes distinctions where God has made none” pg 24