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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“When Harris’s parents immigrated here in the early 1960s, they entered a pre-existing racial caste system and the classifications that undergirded it. When the couple fell in love, so-called antimiscegenation laws prohibiting Black people from marrying white people still existed in 16 states.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/magazine/kamala-harris-black-identity-history.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak4.9snv.zxR52BCsx6xc&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb