Go to Louisiana and you’ll find jazz, Creole culture, crawfish and all sorts of good stuff. But you won’t find much interracial love, at least not while justice of the peace Keith Bardwell is on the job. He’s refusing to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples out of concern for their future children.
According to Bardwell, who is a justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, interracial marriages don’t last long.
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”
Bardwell also said that it’s his policy to not marry mixed race couples, and always pre-screens. After conducting his own independent research, he claims he’s discovered that black society doesn’t accept mixed race offspring (um, last I checked black people wear Kimora’s Baby Phat all the time). He also feels that white society doesn’t accept the offspring (Ashley is the queen of Ireland and listening to Lenny Kravitz right now).
Keith Bardwell, I wish you were on facebook so I could leave images of half-black penis ALL OVER YOUR WALL.
This dude is a dumb bigot. I’ve been happily married for nearly 3 yrs and our biracial daughter has always been accepted by both hubby’s family and mine. Sheesh Mr. Bardwell, even my old-timey family from Maine (a.k.a. land of the white, Catholic, French-Canadians and not much else) is more open-minded than you are!
What a load of manuer. This Judge needs to do a reality check. People are people no matter what color, there are thousands of variations of white and black. Lets be more specific shall we? exactly what colors are acceptable? Cream? Chocolate? Ivory? mahogany? walnut? I have a few freckles, is that acceptable? And his comment about having black friends, what an ass, could he be anymore insulting? Wow, we should give him a medal cause he lets his black “friends” use his toilet. What an american! GEESH!