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Related: About this forum(Jewish Group) Virginia County's Official List Of Races Includes 'Aryan,' 'Hebrew' and 'Jew'
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Attorneys seeking to overturn a Virginia law requiring couples to list their races on marriage licenses has released one countys official list of acceptable races, which includes over 200 options from Assyrian to Zoroastrian.
The federal suit, filed Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia, claims that the race requirement is offensive, unconstitutional and reflective of a racist past, NBC News reported.The plaintiffs are three couples were denied a marriage license because they refused to disclose their race.
The lawsuit also states that different counties in Virginia have different lists of possibilities. Rockbridge County, in the rural west of the state, has over 200 approved races. The countys list,released on the website of plaintiffs attorney Victor M. Glasberg, includes several outdated or unsettling terms, including Aryan, Mulatto and Quadroon.
There are also several variations for Jewish couples, such as Hebrew, Israelite, Jew, Ladina (Ladino), Semitic and, possibly, Cosmopolitan.
Glasberg and his clients have compared their case to Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 lawsuit that eventually struck down a ban on interracial marriage in that state and around the country. Seven other states Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota and New Hampshire also have laws requiring marriage license applicants to state their race.
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(Jewish Group) Virginia County's Official List Of Races Includes 'Aryan,' 'Hebrew' and 'Jew' (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Sep 2019
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still_one
(91,965 posts)1. unbelievable
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)2. Not even consistent within one state.
Not even consistent within one state.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)3. Arggh
I hope that the attorneys suing on this issue are successful