Keith Bardwell: “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom.”

HuffPost User AfroLatina21: For those people who have been socialized to believe that Black people (and other People of Color) are genetically inferior, and for those who have been socialized to believe that Black people (and probably other People of Color) naturally have all kinds of nasty germs, and are so unclean and have such poor hygiene practices that we don’t even wipe our behinds with toilet paper after doing “number two“, and we don’t even wash our hands after going to the bathroom, it’s one thing to stand and talk with those kind of people. But it’s a whole ‘nuther thing to let them use your bathroom. That comment says a lot …it proves is that he still habors a belief that Black people aren’t as clean as White people.

HuffPost User RedWhiteandBrooklyn: One of the worst and most dangerous things about racism in America is that is it so deep that many, many people can say things like he says and believe that they are not racists! [ READ MORE COMMENTS HERE ]

Marriage Refused: Louisiana Justice of the Peace (Keith Bardwell) Who Refused To Perform an Interracial Marriage is Interviewed

Watch CBS News Videos Online

————————————————————————————————————————————————-

————————————————————————————————————————————————-