Mobituaries: Death of a marriage ban
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- In 1967, after the Supreme Court's landmark Loving decision ended bans against interracial marriage, Peggy Rusk - daughter of America's Secretary of State Dean Rusk - made front-page news by marrying Guy Smith, a Black riding instructor. [For more, tune in to "Mobituaries" wherever you download podcasts.]
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I know how she felt when her husband’s last words were “I’m sorry for leaving you alone”. Those same words are in my mind everyday when I think of leaving my wife once I live my last days on earth. 😢
Just cut out sugar and alcohol, eat alot more vegetables, get plenty of sleep, exercise twice weekly, and pray every day.
Let her die b4 u then! It sucks being the one left behind
My heart broke when he said "I am sorry I am leaving you alone"
What a beautiful couple 💑. Beautiful man.
@@heddagaza2713 You can tell they truly loved each other deeply.
Cancel higer denomination dollars to capture black money..with that money you can run government.....
That was beautiful!
I had a therapist who suggested I was with a man of color to “get back at my dad”. When I told her I was terminating therapy with her, she said “but I thought we were friends” !!
Some therapists shouldn't be therapists. Leaving "treatment" was the most therapeutic thing you could've done.
That's a real thing tho. 🤷♀
I mean... Did you ask her how she came to that conclusion?
It's alarming that she thought you were getting with a man of color to "get back at your dad," and so unprofessional to think you were friends.
If people only can accept that; no hidden agenda, they just loved each other. Just let people love who they love. Loved their story.
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The thing about that is that it includes everyone except for pedophiles. I’m not one but the love is love is a slippery slope.
It’s good in these occasions but not those occasions
@@lilrabbitcuz you are being ridiculous.
I agree completely 😊💙🦋🇺🇲
@@marthacastro9162 No- actually they're not. That line is meant to manipulate people into covering all instances. Their concerns are very legitimate as should be, and everyone else should be concerned about it as well. Obviously I'm not talking about interracial marriages, (which btw have been happening since Biblical times🙄 and God Himself blessed and joined those marriages). But have you not seen what they're trying to do to "normalize" pedophilia? Instead of pedophiles, they want to call them 'MAPS' now in order to disengage and distance people's minds from the criminality of it all. There's also a pedophilia flag now, and companies making and selling child sex dolls?!? It's sick and it's diabolical and it's happening right under our noses. Don't be so naive. This is a big deal!
I was five years old in 1967. I remember how "upsetting" the six o'clock news was to my grandparents but my parents, aunts and uncles, weren't upset about the same things. They were upset about the war. Who other people fell in love with didn't matter to them. I do remember the first interracial couple I saw. People we're staring, of course. I was smiling. Even then I knew how important things like that were and I was proud to be an American because of it. (if you were there you know a five year old in the '60's was like a nine year old today. we were already mowing the lawn and doing dishes at five)
You fall in love and get married. It should be as simple as that. It is NOBODYS business who you marry. I hate to think good people will start hiding again. We worked so hard and seemed to get so far I just assumed we would keep moving forward. It crushes my soul to think my grandchild will be starting out where I did ... fifty years ago. Trumpublican Christian Nationalists are a setback but they are NOT the majority. We must at least hold our ground.
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Trump 2024 - love, Korean American voter #JesusSaves
I can't imagine , I get emotional thinking of the cruelty of racism. I hope there is a day when we're all just humans and enjoy our diversity.
Me too doll. People are so ignorant. Segregation still goes on in the south
If y'all get emotional about It, then say something. The next time one of your friends, coworkers or family say something that you know is ignorant or racist don't shake your head and walk away in silence. Say something. Say what's in your heart. You may not be able to walk in my shoes, but you CAN walk with me.
@@bellydancer3146
I've done that. I haven't made any friends, that way, but I wouldn't want such people as friends, anyway.
Cancel higer denomination dollars to capture black money..with that money you can run government.....
What a beautiful live story. I was so touched that her dad stood by her, and Pres Johnson stood by Rusk. I miss when politicians would stand up and do the right thing for their family and country, instead of doing what it takes to get re-elected. When they were class acts not spewing hate and divisiveness.
I’m especially proud the President LBJ was a hardcore Southern Texas Democrat but he was also a wily, independent thinker. He really gave Black folks a boost with Civil Rights, Voting Rights Act (under fire today!), Social Security for low income workers who put in their efforts and deserved something when their time was done, Medicare +, LBJ with his advantaged background was a man for the people. 👍🏽🇺🇸
Agreed😄
"We just loved each other, and that's all that mattered."
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that so many people have a problem with that. Why do other people take it upon themselves to be worried or they are insulted by two people getting married that happen to be a slightly different color. 🤔
America
Because they’re morons?
@@EastSide-qc5oy I wasn't going to go quite that far but.....
It is wonderful to have this update on Guy and Peggy's life together. I remember stumbling upon the Time cover and article about 15 years ago and wondered how they fared. So thrilled to find out it was a good marriage and they were happy. I did see Guy's obituary and was sad to hear he had passed away.
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My parents were married in 1963 and I was born in 1965. I have respect and awe beyond words for what it took for my parents to ignore society and do what they wanted to.
Yup my mom and dad. Some of her white family didn't want her to marry my Hispanic dad. Glad they ignored them, married in 1964 worldwind romance and had me a year later. I'm proud to be bi-racial got the best of both white and Hispanic dna. Also being a navy brat.. Miss my da a lot 😪 they were married over 45 years.
There is a nice interview with Katharine Houghton, who played the engaged girl in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," where she says that she thought her character wasn't good enough for Dr. Prentice. He was a brilliant, accomplished, successful, highly respected man who just happened to be black, and all her character had going for her was that she was white and pretty.
I've been married to my Thai wife for 43 years. So far. I've had a great life.
Diversity is Humanity's Greatest Strength.
May you have many, many more together! 🥰
Same here.
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My bishop (I am a pastor in the Lutheran Church) has been married to his Filipina wife for 45 years (they married in 1977). I'm still looking for the right woman and if she is mixed, I'll be fine with it.
I listened to the podcast a few days ago and I loved the story, this little video brings up everything that I imagined, Guy was drop dead gorgeous! Seriously, he was a great catch, Air Force pilot, loving husband, loved horses and handsome, who wouldn’t want to marry him? ❤❤
I definitely would had married him
Wow in my mind he was a dark gorgeous black man. A light skin legend...how bout that?!
That’s what they mean by tall dark and handsome…oh yea 😍
Beautiful story. 'We just loved each other.' ❤❤
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This is beautiful. Just because they loved each other.
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Beautiful touching story, brought tears to my eyes😮💨
My husband's last words were also "sorry I have to go now"
❤🌹 (Hug)
Race is a social construct. There is only one race, Human.
If only people got what science had always known. 😕
If race is a social construct, how do you determine who should benefit from affirmative action quotas?
Was thinking the exact same thing. One race: the human race.
@@nghtwtchmn129 because social constructs have consequences. You saw the map of states that had laws Against the construct of a 'white' person marrying a person of colour? Yeah, that. Jim crow laws; another real life effect of a social construct. Red lining and financial lenders having policy based on skin colour. Hiring practices based on skin colour. Where you could go to the toilet, drink water or what can company you could use. Where you could eat dinner, or see a show, or which hotel you could stay at. All real live impacts of ' a social construct'.
How lucky she was to have a man that loved her so much. He apologized for leaving her alone. How lucky he was to have a woman who loved him so much.
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What a wonderful piece! Peggy Rusk, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the late Guy Smith=brave, loving and great Americans.
Cancel higer denomination dollars to capture black money..with that money you can run government.....
They were beautiful on their wedding day. We all need to be this courageous right now for the sake of saving what was is right.
This is a beautiful example of Love at it's best. ❤️
Thank you for reminding us.
Beautiful story I’d never heard! …”we didn’t get married for any reason other than the fact we just loved each other.”
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Omg 1967 wasn't even that far ? Smh! What an amazing father!
In 1982, when my BF and I went out, there sometimes were strange stares. Even now in 2022, when I go to the doctors with my now hubby, they would ask who I was. Things have changed some, just some.
What a nice woman and she was never out to make a press story, this was two people in love.
I love this story!! It was very simply about love!!!
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Marriage is a sacrament, giving of one another to each.
Rats. I was holding my breath watching the video, figuring (but still hoping I was wrong) that he had passed away. 45 yeard of a loving marriage. Much more than MOST people get!❤️
What a beautiful love story and am sorry he died so young..
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I watched the documentary about the Lovings. It's such a beautiful love story. The husband reminded me of Edgar Cayce, in a way, due to his humility. Both admitted to not being very smart, and both admired and loved their wives, especially their intelligence, and how they made them into better men.
Beautiful story!!!!
Sixteen states had laws banning mixed marriages. And those 16 states are in the Bible belt. Makes you think what kinda Bible they were reading down there.
At one time, about 24 states had such statutes, and they were not all Confederate states.
This story is touching and beautiful! Marriage is suppose to be about Love! They married because they loved each other! There is nothing more to be said! 💞❤️💞
You can tell she really loved him... and still missies him.
I loved this story. Thanks, Mo!
LOVE IS LOVE IT HAS NO COLOR
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Or gender.
🐵💘👩
Beautiful love story ❤️ people come in all colors. Mr Guy died way too young :(
I love mo, and his podcast never miss it.Thank you for the information and video.
Mo and Steve Hartman do some great stories that pull at your heart strings and make you remember what is good in the world.
Not boring.. Just Beautiful!!! ❤☺ Love is love!!
Her father is the best. To do that for his daughter is perfect ❤️😎
I'm so sorry they didn't get longer together. I would have loved to hear a bit from their children as well.
How many commercials do you see with mixed couples nowadays, it's like "meh", so shocking to remember how incredibly different things once were!
Yeah. We take for granted something that used to be aggressively looked down upon. You look at what happened to Emit Till and what happened to him when a white woman lied about what he did.
I love this so much. I too (to the horror of our extended families), married a man of another race. We are Bahá'í so it made no difference to us, but there was quite a bit of uproar within our families.
Thank you for sharing.
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People are people, let’s just except that. What a beautiful love story. Sad that he passed away so soon…😢
What a lovely lady..
What a beautiful story!
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Thank you.
Beautiful love story ❤️ 💕 ♥️ 💗 💖
Wonderful story. Thank you
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Love this... to bad people/church are still ignorant... love is love and it should never matter who you love.
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The same states that have held the US back throughout our entire history as a nation, still are. I was in high school when Loving was decided. So exhausted by dealing with racist, hateful people in the American south and now with their allies in the rest of the country dragging our nation down.
And going backwards. First abortion, then gay marriage, then birth control!
Incredible!
Guy Smith was gorgeous. Guy Smith died on February 20, 2012 at the age of 67. He and his wife Margaret "Peggy" Rusk, daughter of U.S. Secretary Dean Rusk, were married for 44 years. Guy Gibson Smith (1945 - 2012).
Oh he was gorgeous. That was the point of the story lol
@@steveconn What is your point? You are upset about it? Have you not other things to do? You do not find him gorgeous?
@@BellaFirenze So if he was average-looking his story wouldn't be as urgent or important? People so shallow lol
He was cute as a bug. 😘
So young. 67 is too early.
I loved "we just loved each other". as it should be.
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"Sorry to be so boring" and that is all it should ever be about. Boring, wonderful, private, love.
All you need is ❤️ love.
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In this era, not many ppl can find love or even looking for love anymore. Why cant ppl just let others in love be happy and they find their own happiness ? No one live forever and death is guarenteed. Each day mean we closer to the end, so just find your own happiness and leave those who found theirs to stay happy and peaceful!!
Sometimes, just Sometimes, Love Conquers all .
Someone keeps throwing water at my face. 🥺😥😭🥰💙🦋🇺🇲
loving v Virginia is a case Clarence Thomas should be aware of ... pssshhhhh
He is.
@@yvonneplant9434 Is he really, though? After the Roe decision he stated that the court should maybe reconsider the same-sex marriage decision. Does he think the same of the interracial marriage decision? Or does he think if it’s rescinded he and his traitorous wife will be exempt because of their wealth?
@@pibbitybibbity6599 He thinks that everyone just universally accepts that anti-miscegenation laws were wrong so they would never be touched now. He fails to realize that in his own lifetime, it WASN’T universally accepted and that the same way people used their religion to generate laws against gay marriage, so too did they use their religion to ban “interracial” marriage (and enforce slavery & Jim Crow for that matter). The only things that made these laws precedents were people of good faith who kept religion OUT of our laws. What we see (and what he is perpetuating) is the infusion of religion into our laws and once you open that door, the precedents you think are safe no longer are, including interracial marriage. It would be VERY interesting to see a case make it to the Supreme Court where some state decides that marriage is their domain and their religion dictates that “interracial” marriage is against the religion of most of the people in their state so they have a right to ban it. What would he argue? He already stated that states get to determine healthcare restrictions. He is on record advocating for states determine marriage rights of citizens who happen to be gay. I’d like to see how he squares this with a state’s right to determine marriage for all other citizens.
@@pibbitybibbity6599
You need help.
@@pibbitybibbity6599 I think that such laws (or constitutional articles) were since repealed after the Loving case. What was more important about Loving v. Virginia was not the declaration of interracial marriage laws unconstitutional, but that the "One Drop Rule" (which anyone with even a trace amount of "non-White" blood was automatically declared "Colored" under such) was viewed as an abomination and declared unconstitutional as well; thus those with Native American ancestry (both full and mixed-blooded) were no longer classified as "Colored"/Black, but now could try to prove the necessary percentage of Native ancestry needed to be enrolled in a Federally-recognized nation (provided that the nation doesn't try to blackball anyone of mixed Black & Native American ancestry from being formally enrolled).
Boring sounds lovely right about now…. Wonderful story, sorry for your loss.
MIND BOGGLING
Really mind boggling
To us it is mind-boggling, but back then it was a real issue, especially in the south.
I absolutely love her
Love is Love no matter what race or color.
Or gender!
What a love story. Sonsorry he passed away so soon.
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A very smart and loving woman, way ahead of her times.
I have been married for more than 50 years and we are from different ethnic groups, but I don't consider it a mixed marriage since we are both Catholics.
Emotional 😭. It get memories. Roil Amen.
A beautiful love story. #loveislove
This is so touching! You can’t stop love!❤️❤️❤️
Love sees no color or anything like that. It only sees the person you want to spend the rest of your life with.
Crazy! It's so sad to see the good ones go too soon.
I LOVE #Mobituaries!
Love is love and it lands wherever it decides !
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Hard to believe today that this was ever a controversy. Now so many of us have interracial marriages in our families. At least that much progress has been made. We still have a looooong way to go.
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✝️Wow fantasic!
I'm sorry her husband is gone, shell always have good memories❤❤
People are so ignorant. Lovely story
People are human and humans are flawed. We strive to be better, but will never eradicate our negative characteristics.
A sweet ♥️ story…..
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Beautiful hearts❤
Love is BEAUTIFUL
We just loved each other.. that's all that matters
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That's all what it's supposed to be about. Two people who love each other and want to spend the rest their lives together.
Her husband low key looked like JFK in the wedding pics
Risk had a VERY impressive career. His daughter had a rather groundbreaking interracial marriage.
How wonderful
"That's no black man, that's a good looking white boy dipped in caramel"
once said of Poitier
Actually the line was quoted by the character of Archie Bunker on the television sitcom _All in the Family_ : "Harvey Belafonte ain't black. He's just a good lookin' white guy dipped in caramel."
My parents married in 1969. They couldn't be married in a church or even city hall. They were only teenagers and my dad was in the Army so his commanding officer married them in his living room. My mom was Native American and my dad was Japanese so both of their families weren't approving of the marriage. My mom waited nearly 2 decades to have me because she was waiting for a more tolerant world. She died when I was quite young but not before she told me how hard it was to face so much racism. It was sad, but she was so happy that I could pass as white. (Which isn't really the case...people just can't clock my ethnicity, but continually ask me "what I am." So rude.) Anyhoo, it really was hard for my parents. And, its infuriating that the SCOTUS is trying to drag us back in time.
Beautiful couple💘
I was raised not to see color but to see another human being that breathes, bleeds, has a heart and soul. I'm blessed to have been taught that by my grandparents
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There’s nothing wrong with seeing color . Differences should be celebrated not feared or ignored.
Seeing color is the whole point. You have to see color to acknowledge that we’re all human who just come in different shades
Beautiful.
Great story....checking out the podcast next
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I am glad in the US this changed. Still however there are issues legally with mixed marriage else where and general right of consenting adults.
I am glad many pressed on and true love was a real thing.
Many today I wish loved each other like this in marriage with courage and honesty to one another. It seems rare.
He’s clearly mixed race. Why aren’t they talking about what his parents went through twenty years prior?
Because of the Loving’s and the Smiths, when my Asian husband and I got married in 1990, it wasn’t such a big deal. But we have been harassed by people that still do have a problem with us. It’s their problem, not ours.
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@@user-tv1xj5ji6x What are you up to? You type the same thing to everybody…🤔 Are you talking computer virus or Covid virus? Somethings fishy.
I’m just asking to know if everyone is safe out there.
I too am married to an Asian guy. We had been married for 41 years since August. We had our share of harassment before the wedding. The loudest was from the Catholic priest who was supposed to perform the service. We had my Baptist minister do the honors, no problem. Fancy that.
@@judithcoloma613 Congratulations❣️ I am not surprised about the Catholic priest, I know other people that had the same problem. thank you for sharing this and I wish you both all the best. 🙏🏻💞🥰
Married in 1967...he died at 67yr old.
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“We didn’t get married for any other reason but that we loved each other”. Boss attitude! No wonder he loved her. 40+ years their reward for guts. I’d take as long as God allowed with such a person! 🎉 On the up and 🆙 for all the world to see and evolve to. Sometimes you’re the one tapped to push humans forward, not only politicians or Messiahs. Could just be Mister and Missus or Mister and Mister or Missus and Missus (beauty queens 😮). Go on and add a nice comfy home and a little one or two with a circle of close ones to celebrate with and hey, what more could anyone ask for? ❤🎎❤ 👶🏼👧🏼
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@@user-tv1xj5ji6x ✅ here if you are not a robot! As if AI has a crush and care for a human woman’s welfare but doesn’t know how to express it. How “heartfelt”. 🤍 XO-01010. 😌
If I had a daughter bring home someone like Sidney Poitier, I can't think of a single argument against that. 🥰
Ummm not every black is Sidney Poiter- just pathetic kow towing
Today's Blacks would call Sidney Poitier an "Oreo cookie."
Yet our FL Gov does not want to teach about the pass!!!
Please vote!
*past
Yes. He does. You’re just a foolish person.
They didn't look like a interracial couple , colorism was at play as well
I didnt know interracial marriage was that bad in the us, which is daily occasions in many countries.
By looking at husband you would have never known he was a black man because his skin was so light different hair texture in the wedding picture. He looked like a White man to me.
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