Netflix – “Loving” – a tribute to Juneteenth

It’s ironic that both father’s day and Juneteenth are both today. Until 1967, an African American was not allowed to marry a person of another race in the state of Virginia (including all southern states and many others). Their children were considered bastards. The couple could be forced to move, pay fines or wind up in jail. In the Netflix movie Loving, this history is well portrayed in the Loving family’s Virginia case which went all the way to the Supreme Court. That decision, based on the 14th Amendment, was one of the key racial justice improvements that led the way to others. We need to know the past to understand the present.