Elephant Wednesday

Photo facts…

Adolescent Elephant standing in the bush with ears spread and trunk hanging down, with a small pair of tusks in Matusadona National Park, on the shoreline of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.

Elephant Video…

The following facts came from The Fact Site.

12^th June – Loving Day.

On this day in 1967 the Supreme Court struck down all anti-miscegenation laws, which stated that interracial couples were not allowed to marry.

It began when Mildred, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, got married in Washington DC and returned home to Richmond, Virginia.

Virginia was one of the remaining 16 states of America that still outlawed interracial marriage, so they had to plead guilty to “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth”, because history is full of idiots.

They avoided having to go to jail for being in love by agreeing to leave Virginia, but the sheer stupidity of the laws there urged them to take the matter to the Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and after a court case hilariously entitled “Loving vs. Virginia”, they won the right to be married in the last 16 states that were dragging their heels.

The Lovings returned to Virginia and, to the surprise and dismay of a lot of bigots, the world did not end.