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Stella Tsai's blog

Justice of the Peace Gone Wild!!!

So have you heard about the tale about the Louisiana justice of the peace,  Keith Bardwell, who denied an interracial couple a marriage license out of an abundance of concern for their potential offspring?   JP Bardwell, who proclaims he is not a racist, drew the following conclusions from his (?) experience: (a) interracial marriages don’t last long and (b) the offspring are not accepted by either white or black society.