Mixed and Happy

photo from mixedandhappy.com

photo from mixedandhappy.com

In the fall of 2009, Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace in Louisiana, refused to marry an interracial couple because he “wasn’t racist, he just did not believe in racial mixing.” When word spread, many days of angry blog posts and comments followed, but Suzy Richardson took a different approach. She started the Mixed and Happy project. She asked couples and families to send her photos of their blissfully blended families, which she turned into a giant postcard to send to Keith Bardwell for Christmas. Mixed and Happy’s home is now a facebook page with over 26,000 ‘likes,’ and many of the photo submissions are accompanied by stories of how the couples met. http://www.facebook.com/mixedandhappy