Education philanthropists have been showering money on publicly funded charter schools while often taking their eyes off the big picture. What’s missing, however, is the fact that for every new charter school opened recently, two Catholic schools have closed because of financial trouble.

The failure of our Nation’s support services to professionally and expertly intervene in situations which threaten to destroy the family structure has been cited as the reason for such high numbers of African-American and Hispanic Children in Foster-Care.

Virginia Fuller is a rising star in the Republican Party, both a nurse and foster care activist in California; she is now running for Congress in California’s 7th Congressional District

In Loving V. Virginia, Richard Loving who was Caucasian, and his wife, named Mildred loving who was of African and Native American Descent, sued the state of Virginia which had not only invalidated the Loving interracial union but had also forced the couple to leave the state of Virginia. The Loving couple won their case in 1967 with the Supreme Court saying that they could not tell Richard and Mildred whom to marry.

It is with great sadness, therefore, given the five hundred years of sexual racism which African Americans have been the primary victims of, that a Justice of the Peace named Keith Bardwell from Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana feels that it is his God-given right and even, his duty as a Christian to refuse to marry interracial couples when one party is Caucasian and the other Negroid.

Mr. Bardwell has broken the law four times so far to date in Tangipahoa Parish with his latest victims being 30 year old Beth Humphrey and 32 year old Terence Mckay. Unlike the Loving Couple in 1967, for instance, .Humphrey is Caucasian while Mckay is Black. According to Mary Foster of The Associated Press, the couple were told by Bardwell on October 6th, 2009 that he would not sign a marriage license for an interracial couple. The reason he cited for his refusal is because the children from such unions are not happy because they are usually not accepted by either The African-American Community nor by the Caucasian Community.