Want to Be Class President in Mississippi? You Need to Be White

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

Apparently they were "people" enough for the man who wrote those words to carry on a common law marriage with a black woman after promising his wife on her deathbed that he would never re-marry.

People enough for his common law wife to bear him numerous children.

And yet not people enough to be anything more than "common law"?