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Face to Face (Faccia a faccia; Von Angesicht zu Angesicht)
by Glenn Erickson Oct 04, 2016
Writer-director Sergio Sollima gives us one of the best 'political' Italo westerns from the pre- May '68 era… with two top stars in great form, Gian Maria Volontè and Tomas Milian. This two-disc German import has both the long and short versions of the movie in HD, with full language options for each.
(Faccia a faccia; Von Angesicht zu Angesicht)
Region A+B Blu-ray
Explosive Media (Alive)
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93, 112 min. / Street Date April 29, 2016 / available at Amazon.de / E 21,93
Starring Gian Maria Volontè, Tomas Milian, William Berger, Jolanda Modio, Gianni Rizzo, Carole André Ángel del Pozo, Aldo Sambrell, Antonio Casas, Lidia Alfonsi, John Karlsen, Gastone Moschin, G&eacutge;rard Tichy.
Cinematography Raphael Pacheco
Film Editor Eugenio Alabiso
Original Music Ennio Morricone
Art Direction and sets Carlo Simi
Written by Sergio Donati, Sergio Sollima
Produced by Arturo González, Alberto Grimaldi
<Directed by Sergio Sollima
Wow, another Italo western that's very good!
Italian westerns hit the U.S. big in 1967-68, and thanks to their deal with producer Alberto Grimaldi, United Artists raked in all the cash from the Leone-Eastwood pictures, topping off the coffers already overflowing with Beatles money, James Bond money, etc. Spanish-made Italian westerns flooded the market as Italo sword 'n' sandal pictures never had. Ennio Morricone's music was suddenly popular on the Top 40 stations, even if only in cover versions by Hugo Montenegro.
The center of excitement here was Clint Eastwood, so much so that the ersatz Italo picture Hang 'em High did almost as well as the classic Sergio Leones – it also spawned a radio hit. But only a few other Italo items that received a strong release where I lived. The Big Gundown and Death Rides a Horse were probably big in Los Angeles, but we in the stix got less than stellar titles like El Condor and Captain Apache. During the early '70s when genre studies were booming, American studies ignored most Italo genre product, while the English critics I read were more into auteur classics and wanted nothing to do with the ragged Italian genre. I experienced that too. The dubbed voices and awful sound effects (those gunshots) on the import versions could be very shoddy.
Many fans feel that there are only quality pictures by Sergio Leone, and a pack of undistinguished pretenders. They have a point. The various movies with Lee Van Cleef try to capture the 'Dollars' spirit, but haven't Leone's spark of genre experimentation. I have to say that I now watch The Big Gundown partly and Navajo Joe mostly to enjoy how the Morricone music works with the images.
That's why it is exciting to run into Sergio Sollima's excellent Face to Face, made as Faccia a faccia in Italy and presented here on the German label Explosive Media with the title Von Angesicht zu Angesicht. Just like The Big Gundown, it lost twenty minutes on export to the UK, and was reportedly not even imported to the United States until 1976. Why? I would guess that this is because the big European stars Gian Maria Volontè and Tomas Milian meant little or nothing here.
We read a lot about politically 'committed' Italo westerns, and Face to Face is the first one I've seen that works on a sophisticated level. Like the country itself, the Italian film industry was polarized to left and right political extremes, but for the most part managed to live in harmony. When videotaping video extras for the Leone pictures in 2003, I got to ask interviewee Mickey Knox to elaborate on his statement that Leone was a commercial filmmaker, not a 'committed' one like, say Francesco Rosi. The feisty and opinionated actor, dialogue coach and English version director had strong political opinions of his own, and he respected stars like Gian Maria Volontè who were committed to socially progressive work. Volontè stated often that movies without an overt political dimension simply endorsed the existing power structure. He reportedly turned down an offer to play a major role in a James Bond film.
The 'political' content I've seen in other Italo westerns usually boils down to gunmen helping innocent peasants battle evil politicians or capitalists, who aren't all that different from the 'evil dictators' that must be put down in sword 'n' sandal epics. The screenplay by Sergio Sollima and co-writer Sergio Donati skillfully steers the western format for a conflict between characters with varying approaches toward outlawry. Suffering from TB-like symptoms, Eastern college Professor Bradley Fletcher (Volontè) is recuperating in the hot dry region of Texas, when he becomes a hostage of convicted murderer and bandit Beau Bennet (Tomas Milian). Brad takes care of Beau while a gunshot wound heals. Intrigued by the criminal lifestyle and living by one's wits, Brad eventually joins Beau's gang of thieves. Also joining them is Chas Siringo (William Berger), a crook who shoots a sheriff to prove that he's not a police spy. Brad learns the way of the outlaws and even takes a woman (Jolanda Modio) for his own by fighting another man for her. The fiercely loyal Beau wants to break a loyal gang member out of jail, but Brad has other ideas. He convinces to take on a highly ambitious bank robbery that promises a fabulous payday, not just a few thousand dollars. But neither Brad nor Beau knows that the police have an informer in their midst, whose job is to lead them into a trap.
Face to Face is constructed with standard western elements, but politically it seems to be reaching for a revolutionary consciousness. The 'natural bandit' Beau doesn't think far ahead, and is mostly concerned with survival in the moment and being true to his comrades. He directs his knife and gun only at the law, and against turncoats. When a little kid is killed during a holdup, Beau is seriously broken up about it. The intellectual Brad looks beyond Beau's simple smash & grab thievery to imagine more organized criminal strategies. He's willing to be just as ruthless, but he wants to plan things. The suggestion is that Brad is a proto- revolutionary who wants to overturn authority and set up something better; but for the moment he behave just as would a gangster of the next century, concocting smarter crimes. The Pinkerton agents in the pay of the railroads and banks are quick to realize the threat. Ordinary thieves are jailed, but revolutionaries sticking it to the moneymen can expect much worse treatment. Brad operates from an outlaw hideout called Puerto del Fuego ('Hell's Gate'). The bankers hire a thug (perennial Leone thug Aldo Sambrell) to round up a massive posse. As in the much later Heaven's Gate, a bounty will be paid for the killing of every person in Puerto del Fuego, including women and children. Brad and Beau find themselves trying to defend dozens of innocents against murderous private interests.
A common problem with Italo westerns is that the violence is treated as generic filler, and is often repetitive and overdone. A story can stand just so much nasty double-crossing and egregious cruelty before it becomes dull, as seen in otherwise well-made pictures like Navajo Joe. Sollima's Face to Face is actually sparing with its action scenes. Each makes a special impact — the partnership of Brad and Beau is based on something more than convenience. Cynical treachery isn't the only point of interest.
What this means story wise is that Face to Face is less predictable than most Italo westerns. When the final showdown arrives, it's worked out in a very interesting and satisfying way. The conflicts are not resolved with a radical-chic message statement.
Gian Maria Volontè gives everything he has to his role, as usual, taking the character entirely seriously; he starts out wearing pale-faced 'sickly' makeup that makes him look like an apprentice zombie. As a representative from academia, the Professor's conversion to banditry earns our keen attention. The Brad reiterates the old Monsieur Verdoux argument, that independent criminality is okay because companies and governments commit the same crimes on a mass scale. That evasive rationalization has never had a ghost of a moral foundation.
Cuban-born American actor Tomas Milian is the surprise here. Moreso than his character Cuchillo in The Big Gundown, this Beau Bennet actually is a desperate criminal trying to suss out a workable moral code, who makes very good decisions based on instinct. Beau appreciates the logical strategies of the initially meek Professor, but the fact is that neither of them have a defense against spies and agents provocateur: most of their followers fall victim to a massacre. Milian works under an unusual handicap, an overdone, very fake longhair wig that makes him look like Peter Sellers in What's New Pussycat? How the hell does Beau keep his hair clean?
I suppose a modern analysis of Face to Face would find the Italian screenwriters woefully deficient in the sexism department: part of Brad's education in banditry seems to be to learn how to mistreat a woman. Of course, these outlaw dames show incredible loyalty to their men, no matter how they're treated.
Armed with this superior screenplay, Sergio Sollima seems more focused than ever. The movie follows its own path, not trying to ape Sergio Leone situations, or out-kill the Django movies. Sollima uses the zoom lens much less this time out. Even though his pictures aren't visually distinguished, he and his cameraman Rafael Pacheco do find some excellent compositions. And the costumes and sets have that higher-quality Carlo Simi attention to detail — lots of rich reddish woodwork. I skipped this on DVD several years ago but I really enjoyed this Blu-ray.
(For an excellent alternate take on Sollima, Volontè and Milian's picture, see
Lee Broughton's Savant Guest review from an earlier DVD release.
Explosive Media's Region A+B Blu-ray of Face to Face (Faccia a faccia) is yet another one of their first-rank Italo western presentations. Explosive Media's top-liner Ulrich Bruckner is devoted to the genre, and has made certain that the fans will be happy, as the were with his terrific multi-language disc of The Big Gundown several years back.
As Explosive's primary market is Germany, the package title is Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, although the long version that I saw uses the English language title. Color and picture quality throughout are excellent. Of special note is the Ennio Morricone score, a jarring guitar theme that's less operatic than we expect, but quite effective. Morricone's mood and transition cues give the show a genuine boost.
Although the German Amazon listing says that a DVD is included, Explosive's release is a double Blu-ray set. Face to Face presents two versions on separate discs, the 93-minute English theatrical version and the original 112-minute full version, which is what I watched. Some sections in the uncut version have been up-scaled from Standard Def. But both versions have a full English track.
Why go for the German disc? According to Bluray.com the American Lorber disc only has the Cut version in HD, and only in English. It has the Uncut Italian version, but only in Standard Def. Although listed as Region B, the disc plays in Region A machines as well.
The short version disc contains a trailer, a photo gallery and a transfer of a Super-8 digest version (the Germans seem to like to include those). An eight-page illustrated pamphlet carries an essay in German by Markus Tschiedert.
Face to Face (Faccia a faccia)
Region A+B Blu-ray rates:
Movie: Very Good +
Video: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Audio: German, Italian, English both versions
Supplements: none
Deaf and Hearing-impaired Friendly? YES; Subtitles: English, German both versions
Packaging: 2 Blu-rays in keep case
Reviewed: October 2, 2016
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Q: read array from json without any root object I am using python 2.x. I am reading the following json from a file
[{"id":1, "name":"a"}, {"id":2,"name":"b"}]
I want to convert this json to an array of named tuple.
Is this possible or should I necessarily have a root element which contains the array?
code I wrote so far
from collections import namedtuple
import json
a = json.loads('''[{"id":1, "name":"a"}, {"id":2,"name":"b"}]''')
tuple = namedtuple('id', 'name')
mylist = [tuple(**k) for k in a]

I don't write python very frequently so please bear with me if this is a bad question

A: Named tuples need a class name passed to them, and require attributes to be in one string. For example:
from collections  import namedtuple
import json
a = json.loads('''[{"id": 1, "name": "a"}, {"id": 2, "name": "b"}]''')
mytuple = namedtuple("mynamedtuple", "id, name")
mylist = [mytuple(**k) for k in a]

A: I used to do that in a simple manner :
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json_file = "id.json"

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In 1989, Amroha parliamentary constituency had total 924732 electors. Total number of valid vote was 541351. Janata Dal candidate Har Govind won and became MP from this seat. He secured total 271559 votes. Indian National Congress candidate Khursheed Ahmad stood second with total 123477 votes. He lost by 148082 votes.
In 1984, Amroha parliamentary constituency had total 702442 electors. Total number of valid vote was 455698. Indian National Congress candidate Ram Pal Singh won and became MP from this seat. He secured total 181642 votes. Independent candidate Ishrat Ali Ansari stood second with total 164365 votes. He lost by 17277 votes.
In 1980, Amroha parliamentary constituency had total 658467 electors. Total number of valid vote was 356675. Janta Party (secular) candidate Chandra Pal Singh won and became MP from this seat. He secured total 132602 votes. Janta Party candidate Isharat Ali stood second with total 89920 votes. He lost by 42682 votes.
In 1977, Amroha parliamentary constituency had total 575748 electors. Total number of valid vote was 353108. Bharatiya Lok Dal candidate Chandrapal Singh won and became MP from this seat. He secured total 209895 votes. Indian National Congress candidate Sattar Ahmad stood second with total 73401 votes. He lost by 136494 votes.
In 1971, Amroha parliamentary constituency had total 536743 electors. Total number of valid vote was 268312. Communist Party Of India candidate Ishaque Sambhali won and became MP from this seat. He secured total 92580 votes. Independents candidate Chandra Pal Singh stood second with total 61538 votes. He lost by 31042 votes.


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Golf Club Stará Boleslav je golfové hřiště a golfový klub mezi obcemi Borek a Stará Boleslav. Hřiště je přibližně 2 kilometry od Staré Boleslavi a 2,9 kilometrů od Borku. Projektantem hřiště je Ing. Jiří Velden. Hřiště bylo otevřeno 17. dubna 2005.

Informace o hřišti
Hřiště má 9 jamek, PAR hřiště je 34 a celková vzdálenost hřiště je:

 2320 metrů – bílé odpaliště
 2229 metrů – žluté odpaliště
 1949 metrů – červené odpaliště

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Prvních 9 jamek:

 287/279/248 metrů – PAR 4 – Stroke Index 11
 289/275/236 metrů – PAR 4 – Stroke Index 5
   122/117/97 metrů – PAR 3 – Stroke Index 17
 460/447/383 metrů – PAR 5 – Stroke Index 1
 157/145/117 metrů – PAR 3 – Stroke Index 13
 330/330/299 metrů – PAR 4 – Stroke Index 3
 147/133/112 metrů – PAR 3 – Stroke Index 7
 260/242/223 metrů – PAR 4 – Stroke Index 15
 268/261/234 metrů – PAR 4 – Stroke Index 9

Golfové hřiště není veřejné. Hrát mohou pouze golfisté s platnou registrací na ČGF a handicapem 54. Psi pouze na vodítku a kočárky z bezpečnostních důvodů mají vstup zakázán.

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International History, 1945-1991
Level: AS and A Level
Subject: History
The Woman Warrior
Diane Zalaquett August 15, 2005 IB Eng. 11 Mr. Welbes Pd.3 The Search for Human Identity All humans encounter the search for personal identity at some point in life. As an "American Chinese" Maxine Hong Kingston tries to find out what defines her. Let them be her mother's traditional world, her new American home, or herself as an individual. Undoubtedly, Maxine is strongly interested in the margins between certainty and falsehood, remembrance and tradition, honesty and deceit. As she grows up, she realizes that indeed, part of becoming a young mature woman is figuring out what makes up her own individual. She also questions who she really is, and where she belongs in her family. Maxine Hong Kingston begins her search with the story of an aunt, to whom the first chapter in No Name Woman talks about. Throughout the story, Maxine tries to define whether she can see herself as a product of her family's history and how their story may define her as an individual. Maxine is also concerned with exploring how her Chinese culture can be submissive with her emerging sense of self as an American. Kingston must learn more about what Chinese cultural history really is. ...read more.
She writes about her aunt worrying about the new baby and where it would belong. Maxine does not want her family to be so harsh on her aunt. She also refers to women and how they are considered useless to society. This is another example of how Maxine is her own individual, not necessarily defined by her family or their cultural traditions, for she is still in the process of understanding them and their customs. Maxine is originally Chinese although she feels like she cannot identify who she is based on her family's traditions and cultural history. She grew up and lived in a Chinese community that followed such traditions, yet she cannot deal with women seen as wives or slaves. It is clear that there are several different viewpoints on Chinese culture, for Maxine, unlike her mother agrees and supports her aunt's final destiny. Along the story, the narrator attempts to understand the traditional view of women in society. On the other hand, the narrative about Maxine's aunt helps the reader understand how Maxine's dissatisfaction towards her family's traditional view creates little or no empathy for the traditional view of women in Chinese culture. ...read more.
In order to understand her relatives, and finally understand herself, Maxine Hong Kingston describes her family's cultural traditions using tales that point out the differences between her mother's Chinese culture and her American culture. Kingston wants to understand the culture she is part of and yet one that she has never known. To conclude, even though Maxine sees herself as her own individual, she remains confused as to some aspects in relation to the identity she tries to uncover. When Maxine's aunt goes against the standards of acceptable behavior in her community, "the villagers punished her for acting as if she could have a private life, secret and apart from them." This is when Kingston realizes that she has her own private life, and that no one but Maxine may define who she really is. Finally, Kingston questions her family's traditional views to find out whether they fit her life principles and her own views as an individual. This serves as an example to prove how Maxine is her own individual, and how her family's history is nothing near defining her own identity as a person. Maxine has a family and feels like part of it; yet she knows that the standards of being part of her Chinese family are totally different to what she views as her own standards of life, which she has decided to live by. ...read more.
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Orla Gartland Announces New Album 'Woman On The Internet'
It's out on August 20th...
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Orla Gartland is set to release her debut album 'Woman On The Internet' on August 20th.
The songwriter has complete work on the record, and the announcement "feels like a moment I've been waiting for for years..."
Using the unexpected spare time afforded to her by the pandemic, Orla is keen to stress it isn't some "lockdown blues" story.
She comments: "Something clicked into place last year - I grew into my role as a producer and lyrically I knew what I wanted to say. Although this album was made in 2020 it isn't laced with lockdown blues - it feels more like the soundtrack of new time to me; a sunnier time, a more hopeful time. I'm so proud of this record and beyond excited for everyone to hear it!"
Out on August 20th, 'Woman On The Internet' taps into "the chaos of my 20s".
She adds: "It's a different chaos to your late teens, such a different brand of angst. I feel so much more settled and sure of myself now than I was when I was 18 or 19 but I'm still just half the person I'm going to be and to capture that became really important."
New song 'Do You Mind?' is a fine introduction - lyrically astute, witty and empathetic, Orla Gartland's use of melody perfectly offsets the darkness of her songwriting.
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Myanmar has more to prove before U.S. drops all sanctions
Bit by bit, Myanmar is winning nods from the West as the former military junta edges toward reform, freeing political prisoners and letting the opposition compete in elections.
The Obama administration recently announced that it would loosen some of its economic sanctions, making it easier for food and medicine to get to the needy. The European Union suspended most of its sanctions Monday, a step that could help the impoverished nation gain thousands of jobs. Canada quickly followed suit, lifting most of its bans on imports and exports Tuesday as a reward for reform.
Yet Myanmar, also known as Burma, has much to prove before the United States will completely clear its thicket of complicated sanctions. The country is still a far cry from a free, democratic nation, experts and activists say.
"It's better," said Josh Kurlantzick, a Southeast Asia fellow at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. "But it's hardly turned into Sweden overnight."
Brutal violence has been reported as ethnic conflict rages in Myanmar's northern stretches. The army has attacked and pillaged Kachin villages, raped women and forced Kachin child soldiers to the front lines to fight, Human Rights Watch said in a recent report.
Though the government has agreed to halt hostilities with some rebels, experts say that in order to forge a lasting peace, leaders need to strike a broader agreement that gives dissatisfied groups more autonomy and affords them a share of economic proceeds from mining or other industries.
"It's a glaring thing that people have lost sight of," said Maureen Aung-Thwin, director of the Open Society Foundation's Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative. "Almost nobody has written about it. But this is the main issue that Burma has to resolve to complete its transformation."
Though hundreds of political prisoners have been freed, hundreds more are believed to still be behind bars -- no one knows exactly how many are jailed. Repressive laws still allow journalists to be jailed, and people are not allowed to send emails abroad criticizing the country.
"They have all of these tools," said Aye Chan Naing, chief editor of Democratic Voice of Burma, which broadcasts news reported by Myanmar journalists from Norway. "They're just not using them. But if they want to, they can do it. The censorship is still there."
Even some of the vaunted reforms fall short. A new law on peaceful protests, for instance, still allows people to be jailed up to a year for holding a demonstration without permission. Slogans must be approved by the government. The new laws are debated without letting outsiders contribute.
Although recent elections ushered former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi into elected office for the first time, only a fraction of the parliamentary seats were in play in the election. That will change in three years, when Suu Kyi's opposition party will have a chance to tip the balance of power. The question is whether the military, still a driving force in the government, will allow it.
"The real litmus test in terms of how far the country has come" will be in 2015, said Suzanne DiMaggio, vice president of global policy programs for the Asia Society.
Another unknown is how and whether government leaders will be held accountable for past regime abuses. The popular Suu Kyi has stressed forgiveness, and many opposition leaders fear an aggressive push for accountability could sour the government on reform.
"The international community is not going to be happy with that," Kurlantzick said. "The question is what they are willing to accept."
The biggest fear is that Myanmar will backslide. President Thein Sein, who has a rapport with Suu Kyi and has helped institute the reforms, is aging, raising fears that his eventual death could derail change. Bringing the opposition into parliament has already hit a snag; Suu Kyi and her elected allies put off taking their seats Monday in a dispute over the wording of the oath of office.
The U.S. has been slower to lift sanctions than other countries partly because it has layered so many different sets of sanctions on Myanmar over time, so undoing them is complex. Some can be lifted by the president; others require Congress to act. But that same complexity has allowed the U.S. to walk the line politically on Myanmar, easing some sanctions while holding on to others.
"The challenge is striking the right balance between carrots and sticks," DiMaggio said.
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-- Emily Alpert in Los Angeles
Photo: Protesters in Tokyo hold banners outside the Myanmar Embassy during a rally Monday to demand the release of political prisoners and other moves toward democracy in Myanmar. Credit: Koji Sasahara / Associated Press


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Love Conquers All – Waiting A Decade For The Court's Decision
In 2013, a federal Judge cited the Loving case in his ruling when striking down Virginia's same-sex marriage ban. The Loving case has become the foundation in which other courts are striking down bans against same-sex marriage. How did it come about?
Loving — The last name is so appropriate.
Mildred and Richard Loving
In 1957, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter married. They met and lived in Central Point, Virginia, but married in Washington, D.C. because in Virginia, it was illegal to marry a person of another race. Richard, White, and Mildred, "colored," fell in love at first sight.
At about 4 a.m. one morning, the local police came to their house and arrested them. It wasn't just the law against interracial marriage that the police was going to arrest the Lovings for violating. They were hoping to catch them in the act of making love, because there was also law against interracial sex.
Mildred showed the police their marriage certificate, but that marriage certificate became evidence for the criminal charge of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth."
On January 6, 1959, the Loving's pled guilty. The law they were charged with violating was passed in Virginia in 1924. It was the Act for the Preservation of Racial Integrity. That law set forth that any trace of nonwhite ancestry (the infamous "one drop" rule) defined someone as ineligible to marry anyone defined as white.
The court found the Loving's guilty and sentenced each to one year in prison, but suspended sentencing for 25 years if they moved out of Virginia.
They moved to Washington, D.C. and could only return to Virginia separately, not together, to see their families. The Loving's were unhappy in D.C. and in 1964, Mildred wrote to Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He referred her to the ACLU. Two attorneys with no prior experience, but believers in equality and the constitution, went to work.
Their work filing appeals in Virginia were unsuccessful. Virginia Supreme Court Justice Harry L. Carrico wrote an opinion where he used Virginia cases to uphold Virginia's anti- miscegenation statutes. He modified the Loving's sentences, and affirmed their criminal convictions.
Attorney Bernard S. Cohen of the ACLU then took the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. Richard and Mildred were married ten years before they could return to Virginia as a married couple without being arrested.
In 1967, in Loving, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for the unanimous court, holding:
"Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," … fundamental to our very existence and survival…. "the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. . . . To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. . . . Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State."
The Loving Family
Listening now to the argument before the Supreme Court in 1967, the same issues were present then that are present now for same-sex marriage. It's not about sex but rather, equality under the law. It's about property ownership, and inheritance, and social security beneficiary and survivor's benefits.
In 2010, the federal district court decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that overturned California's Proposition 8 (which restricted marriage to opposite-sex couples), Judge Vaughn R. Walker cited Loving v. Virginia to hold that "the [constitutional] right to marry protects an individual's choice of marital partner regardless of gender".
The Loving couple had three children: Donald, Peggy, and Sidney. Richard Loving lived to be 41. In 1975, he was killed when a drunk driver struck his car in Caroline County, Virginia. Mildred Loving lost her right eye in the same accident.
In June 2007, the 40th year anniversary of the issuance of the Supreme Court's decision in their case, Mildred Loving issued a statement;
"I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry… I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about."
On May 2, 2008, in Milford, Virginia, Mildred Loving died from pneumonia at the age of 68.
In February 2014, Judge Arenda L. Wright, writing for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Bostic v. Rainey, which struck down Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage, prefaced her opinion with Mildred Loving's 2007 statement.
A documentary film titled "The Loving Story" is available on DVD. Portions of it are also available on Youtube.
To recognize the decision in Loving v. Virginia, Loving Day Celebrations happen globally around June 12th of every year. There is a Loving Day grassroots organization whose goals are to:
• Create a common connection between multicultural communities, groups and individuals
• Build multicultural awareness, understanding, acceptance, and identity
• Educate the public about the history of interracial relationships in order to fight prejudice
• Establish a tradition of Loving Day celebrations as a means to achieve these goals
Posted on 04/04/2014, in Bloggers for Peace, Heroes, research and tagged B4P, B4Peace, interracial marriage, Loving, Loving Day, Mildred, Richard, same-sex marriage, Virginia. Bookmark the permalink.	42 Comments.
Reminds me of my grandparents who came here from Scotland not knowing about laws and hatred against interracial marriage. If only my mom were alive to see the documentary. (sigh)
Jueseppi,
Good morning friend. Have a fantastic Friday!
Jackie Saulmon Ramirez | 04/04/2014 at 7:34 am
I knew this as soon as I saw the picture! This was a touching event that should have taught many back then that love matters more than color. Then again, if you fast forward to the cereal commercial…. you just know, some people will never learn beyond what their closed minds believe. This was a beautiful post. Thank you for this. 😉
It's funny that they brought up how they did not ant the races to mix but they never mention how white slave owners produced offspring. Makes me wonder how many people have "pure" blood now. I think it would be nearly impossible. How hypocritical!
I love the quote:
Good morning, Jackie!
It's funny that they brought up how they did not ant the races to mix but they never mention how white slave owners produced offspring.
Oh — I could probably write a book about that hypocrisy. In summary, it was about "business." It's one thing when a slave owner produced offspring with a slave, because that was "product" to sell and make money. Heck! Even the mother could be sold.
It's quite another thing when the wife and children are provided for out of LOVE. If the house wasn't good enough for the husband, then he wasn't going to allow his family to live in it.
It's the difference between raising children in oppression and fear, and raising children in a family where they see that dad works so they expect to do the same when they grow up.
It's the difference between profiling African-American males as thugs to discourage them from succeeding, as opposed to not being able to discourage Barack Obama.
You are absolutely right, Xena. 😉
Outstanding, beautiful article!
Thank you so much, Xena!
Thank you. They were a beautiful couple and just look at what their love and struggle has done for others. Bless them!!
Bless them, their love and struggle paved the way to allow Mr dreamer and I to marry.
A wonderful post … thanks for sharing!! It gives meaning to the word love … and how it encompasses all under that "umbrella" ….. Love is love, Love is for all. Love has no barriers!! Reblog …..
Good morning Horty!
Love is like a tree seedling. The roots grow deep, and it bears the fruit of love for generations eternally.
GM … sweets!! Love it, love it, love it!!!
Love is like a tree seedling.
The roots grow deep,
and it bears the fruit of love for generations eternally.
What you have written here, Xena, is beautiful, profound, and TRUE!
I'm going to combine a Bible passage;
after perfection comes, 3 things remain, faith, hope, and love and the greatest of these is love.
Those things are eternal. Those who are spiritual, no matter religion or no religion, have that understanding planted in their heart. All things deriving from the foundation of love continue living and brings life to others.
Who would imagine that an act of love brought before and decided by the Supreme Court of the U.S. in 1967, would have effect decades later for others who want that same marriage equality?
Yes, who could have imagined that?
They have so profoundly touched many, many lives and helped our country to grow.
How beautiful to see their deep loving spirit and deep love for each other.
On comment: "love matters more than color" ….. Love matter more than anything. Love has no boundaries. Love is the union of two souls, two spirits … no rules or laws apply here!!! We all are one!!
Love has no boundaries. Love is the union of two souls, two spirits … no rules or laws apply here!!!
Absolutely, Horty!
Hi there!! Yahtzee … hugs!! lotsa love for you!!
Hugs and love right back at you, Horty! 🙂
Have a great day and weekend!
You too!!! 😎
So very true Yahtzee.
IdealisticRebel | 04/04/2014 at 9:14 am
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A real true story that touches the heart.
This is one of your best posts ever. A brilliant story. Hugs, Barbara
Good morning Barbara,
Thank you for your kind words. I am humbled.
Once on a high and windy hill
I in the morning mist
Two lovers kissed
And the world stood still
.
Then your fingers touched
My silent heart and taught it how to sing.
Yes, true love's
A many splendored thing
In November 2000, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law banning interracial marriage. The one-time home of George Wallace and Martin Luther King Jr. had held onto the provision for 33 years after the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Yet as the election revealed—40 percent of Alabamans voted to keep the ban—apparently many Alabamans still see the necessity for a law that prohibits blacks and whites from mixing blood.
An April 2011 poll of Mississippi Republican primary voters asked "Do you think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?". The responses were "Legal" 40%, "Illegal" 46%, and "Not Sure" 14%.[
I read what you have written here about a half an hour ago, dreamer, and I was so overcome that I just could not write anything.
I have an upset heart and my soul is nauseated from reading what you have reported to us.
With a deep sadness of spirit I am left to turning to prayer. Fortunately, I know that prayer is powerful along with a strong connection to a caring community (here on Xena's blog and in the world) that seeks through so many positive causes to make this a better world.
Dr. Rex on her blog introduced me to this video:
I do believe we have the power to create a better world in so many areas as we pay attention to and help bring about change to so many important issues affecting us, our fellow citizens, and the larger world community.
We can make this world a better place:
dreamer | 04/04/2014 at 10:21 pm
I ran across that information a couple of years ago and I was stunned. I had no clue that Alabama was the last state to approve interracial marriages, which happens to be the same year I married Mr. dreamer, in 2000. What is even more troublesome to me, is the statistics that still believe it should be illegal. My journey into tracing my husbands family roots has been a real lesson in history for me. I am at a loss of words, except to say with a heavy heart, we have so much further to go. This is not about what is legal or illegal, it's about compassion and understanding. It's about soul searching.
eurobrat | 04/05/2014 at 1:42 pm
Amazing story, and yet more proof that the argument of "Well, this is they way it's always been done!" just doesn't work.
eurobrat,
Your true comment brought a smile to my heart, causing me to think back to a White Southern preacher who came to our integrated church and spoke on that subject.
He went through a series of things that people said they did because "That's the way it's always been done." Then, he shared a story.
It was about a woman who after buying watermelon, always cut off the ends off and threw them away. Her daughter asked why and she said, "I don't know. My mother did it. That's the way it's always been done."
So, the daughter called her grandmother and asked why she cut the ends off watermelon and threw them away and the grandmother replied, "I don't know. That's the way my aunt did it. That's the way it's always been done. "
Several months later, the daughter got a call from her grandmother who said that the question bothered her. She realized that she was doing what her aunt did without any understanding as to why, so she made calls and got the answer.
"In my aunt's day, people had ice-boxes. They were small. A man came around with big blocks of ice and they were put in a box with another box on top for food to keep cold. The ends of melon were cut off so the rest would fit inside the ice-box to chill."
As man became wiser and refrigerators were invented, there was no need to cut off the ends of melon but that was the way things had been done without understanding how it came about.
And, that preacher said, "Ignorance causes waste. It puts people in bondage who don't know they are in bondage to the ideas of others."
What a BEAUTIFUL, instructive story, Xena.
Thank you so much for sharing it.
Maybe the opportunity for me to use it will present itself to me so that I might be able to help someone develop a new outlook or soften his/her rigid thinking or biases.
eurobrat | 04/07/2014 at 10:02 pm
Oh my, what a story! Exactly–let's stop cutting the ends of our watermelons off–it's about time 🙂
This song was on the album I bought in 1969. It is one of my favorites.
You have once again shared something that spurs my interest. I found their Facebook page, although the last entry was in 2012. Also, there are some albums on ebay.
There's a television program titled "Unsung" that I watch from time to time. Some of the artists have talked about how their record companies didn't market them properly, or didn't know how to market them.
Yahtzee and Xena,
That's a great song Yahtzee!!!. I am always listening to The Voice on Youtube. I enjoy listening to the singers in other countries, especially the UK. I have never heard of Sally Barker, she used to sing with Robert Plant, Bob Dillon, Joni Mitchell. Her husband passed away when he was 42, and she put her career on hold. She is really good, listen to some of her music when you get a chance.
Xena, I watch Unsung as well, good show.
Thanks for sharing her video, dreamer. I found this song that she sang in her younger days:
What a magnificent voice Sally Barker has!!! Thanks for the introduction.
I try to catch Unsung as much as possible.
This is a video of introductory lectures with discussion at a screening event of the "Loving Story" documentary (Note: the documentary film is not shown in this video.):
I love this family photo of the Lovings:


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PIA03756: Nirgal Vallis (Released 27 March 2002)
Target Name:  Mars
Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey
Spacecraft:  2001 Mars Odyssey
Instrument:  THEMIS
Product Size:  1212 x 3061 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:  Arizona State University
Producer ID:  20020327A
Full-Res TIFF:  PIA03756.tif (1.766 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:  PIA03756.jpg (501.7 kB)
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Original Caption Released with Image:
This THEMIS image shows a sinuous valley network channel with sharp bends cutting across the cratered highlands of the southern hemisphere of Mars. The channel is named Nirgal Vallis, which is from the Babylonian word for "Mars." Nirgal Vallis is a channel with a total length of approximately 500 km. It is approximately 6 km wide in this region. Gullies and alluvial deposits discovered by Mars Global Surveyor are clearly visible on the polar-facing (south) wall and floor of Nirgal Vallis. These gullies appear to emanate from a specific layer in the walls. There is a pronounced sparsity of gullies on the equator-ward facing slopes. The gullies have been proposed to have formed by the subsurface release of water. Patches of dunes are also seen on the channel floor, notably along the edges of the channel floor near the canyon walls. There is still debate within the scientific community as to how valley networks themselves form: surface runoff (rainfall/snowmelt) or headward erosion via groundwater sapping. This image is approximately 22 km wide and 60 km in length; north is toward the top.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Arizona State University
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