The Anti-Miscegenation Amendment

Yipes, in 1912 there was an attempt to amend the US Constitution to ban interracial* marriages, this in the wake of a black man defeating a white boxing champion.

You can insert that line about the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

*I can’t stand the term ‘race’ because it has no biological meaning.

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