Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans ‘mixed race’ couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada |
Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans ‘mixed race’ couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada
National Post
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014-11-06
Marni Soupcoff, Deputy Comment Editor
A Canadian woman falls in love and joins her life with that of a man of a different race. As a direct result of this union, she is harassed, receives notice of eviction, and is told she must leave her home.
What century are we talking about? This one, I’m afraid; and the culprit is not some errant racist landlord trying to throw one tenant out of a building. It’s the Kahnawake Mohawk council, which has a law that bans all “mixed race” couples from living anywhere in its Montreal-area territory.
Waneek Horn-Miller is half of one of those “mixed race” couples who has been told to get out. Horn-Miller may be a Mohawk, but because her common-law husband (and the father or her two children) is white, the aboriginal activist and former Olympian is no longer welcome or permitted to live on Kahnawake territory.
This is happening in 2014. Which, to put things in context, is 47 years after the United States Supreme Court ruled anti-miscegenation (or race-mixing) laws unconstitutional in that country…
Read the entire article here.
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