Whenever Loving v Virginia comes up, I’m reminded that Americans are TOTALLY normal about race and sex, and that America abandoned the Roman and English law principle of partus sequitur ventrem, suffering from generations of coded trauma, eventually resulting in the popular assertion that Barack Obama’s mother was NOT a white lady from Kansas.

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