Nov 27, 2017

Shall We Nix The "Mixed"?

     Lots of coverage about the impending marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle....with many of the headlines calling it a "mixed race marriage" because the bride's mother is black and her father white.

     For many of us in the American South, the word "mixed" may bring to mind the KKK/Dixicrat complaint about race "mixing". Remember, Alabama was about the last state to permit interracial marriages...
"Back in 2000, Alabama became the last state in the country to overturn its ban on interracial marriage. And despite more than three decades having passed since the Supreme Court ruled such laws  unconstitutional (rendering such bans effectively moot), more than 40 percent of Alabamians still voted against overturning it."

Might we use the term "multiple-race" or "biracial"?

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