Comic Books
"Watch it, bro; remember what they say about mixed marriages — they never work."
—Speed, Young Avengers Presents
"What if the aunties at the masjid are awful to Tyesha 'cause she's Black? What if they're awful to our kids because they'll be Blackistani? Why do human beings suck as a species?!"
—Aamir Khan having pre-wedding jitters, Ms. Marvel (2014)
Harold: Let's face it. Your parents hate me and I'm convinced it's just because I'm white.
Harold's Wife: Oh, stop it. I'm sure they have other reasons too.
Harold's Wife: Oh, stop it. I'm sure they have other reasons too.
Literature
The city knows how to deal with ... inconvenient kings. But an heir to the throne who is actually called Rex?
—Dragon King At Arms on the possibility of Ankh-Morpork's crown going to someone part-werewolf, Feet of Clay
Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.
—Tom, The Great Gatsby
We, Narcissa and I, have never set eyes on our sister since she married the Mudblood. This brat has nothing to do with either of us, nor any beast she marries.
—Bellatrix Lestrange upon learning Tonks married Lupin, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Music
My father married a pure Cherokee
My mother's people were ashamed of me
My mother's people were ashamed of me
—Cher, "Halfbreed"
Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
My father he was orange and my mother she was green
My father he was orange and my mother she was green
—The Irish Rovers, "The Orange and the Green"
Religion and Mythology
Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.
—Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses (10:110)
No male or female member of our community has the right to intermarry with non-Jews; this law covers conversions which we consider to be fictitious and valueless. We further decree that no future rabbinic court of the community should have the right or authority to convert male or female non-Jews who seek to marry into our community.
—1935 Takkanah from various Syrian Jewish clerics
Theatre
Because we come to
do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll
have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse,
you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have
coursers for cousins and jennets for germans.
do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll
have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse,
you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have
coursers for cousins and jennets for germans.
—Iago to Brabantio, about Othello's marriage to Desdemona, Othello
Motormouth Maybelle(upon learning that her son Seaweed and a white girl Penny Pingleton are in love): So this is love. Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a never-ending parade of stupid.
Penny: So you met my mom.
Penny: So you met my mom.
Video Games
"Still your tongue, Blumiere... Can't you see you've been duped by a dirty human? You have brought shame to my name...and to the entire Tribe of Darkness! [...] Someday you will see, Son. Our kind and humans must never mix."
—Blumiere's Father, Super Paper Mario
Real Life
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
—Leon M. Bazile upon sentencing Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter in Caroline County Court, January 6, 1959, the case that would lead to Loving vs. Virginia.
No brutality, no infamy, no degradation in all the years of southern slavery, possessed such villainous character and such atrocious qualities as the provision of the laws of Illinois, Massachusetts, and other states which allow the marriage of the negro, Jack Johnson, to a woman of Caucasian strain. [applause] Gentleman, I offer this resolution ... that the States of the Union may have an opportunity to ratify it. ...
Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant to the very principles of Saxon government. It is subversive of social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery of white women to black beasts will bring this nation a conflict as fatal as ever reddened the soil of Virginia or crimsoned the mountain paths of Pennsylvania.
... Let us uproot and exterminate now this debasing, ultra-demoralizing, un-American and inhuman leprosy.
Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant to the very principles of Saxon government. It is subversive of social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery of white women to black beasts will bring this nation a conflict as fatal as ever reddened the soil of Virginia or crimsoned the mountain paths of Pennsylvania.
... Let us uproot and exterminate now this debasing, ultra-demoralizing, un-American and inhuman leprosy.
—Representative Seaborn Roddenbery (D-GA) in Congressional Record, 62d. Congr., 3d. Sess., December 11, 1912, pp. 502–503
I came to the conclusion that most black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society.
—Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell explaining in 2009 why he refused to celebrate an interracial marriage
We of the South have never recognized the right of the Negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him.
—Senator Benjamin Tillman (D-SC), during the 1895 state constitutional convention.
The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a negro, or descendant of a negro.
—Section 102 of the 1901 Constitution of Alabama, before being annulled in 2002
of the 1901 Constitution of Alabama, before being annulled in 2002The sane and educated Negro does not want social equality… They do not want intermarriage or social mingling any more than does the average American white man wants it. They have race pride as well as we. They want racial purity as much as we want it. There are both sides to the question and to form an unbiased opinion either way requires a thorough study of the matter on both sides.
—John Powell, author of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 of Virginia
of VirginiaMarriages between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood are forbidden. Marriages nevertheless concluded are invalid, even if concluded abroad to circumvent this law.
—Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, art. 1, one of the infamous Nuremberg Laws passed by Nazi Germany
