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...Louisiana was made the laughingstock of the nation," says Lee Frazier, a Democratic state representative from New Orleans. "Laughingstock" may be charitable: the source of embarrassment was a retrograde Louisiana statute, passed only 13 years ago, that stipulated that a person is "nonwhite" if his racial makeup includes more than one thirty-second "Negro blood." Last week Republican Governor David Treen signed a bill, drafted by Frazier, that repeals the 1970 statute and requires the state from now on to accept parents' designation of a child's race. The change is not retroactive, how ever...
...Louisiana's one thirty-second standard had been originally intended as a reform. It superseded the state courts' long standing practice of defining a black as someone with "any traceable amount" of "colored" ancestry. The one thirty-second provision automatically made thousands of fractionally black Louisianians legally white. Aside from the plain repugnance of any such law, blacks in particular objected to the implication that to be white is preferable...
Dead of injuries was Louisiana Trucker Harold Bracy. Drowned in their car were Luis Zapata and Reginald Fischer, both area residents. Driving abreast was Truck Driver David Pace, hauling a load of empty beer bottles to Hartford and accompanied in the cab by his wife. "I felt my wheels going soft on me," Pace told his father later from a hospital bed. "I screamed to Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously...
Born in 1945, Alexander was raised in Texas swamp country-Beaumont, near the Louisiana border. One might not deduce that from his work but, with a little hindsight, the paintings suggest it. They have a marshy, embrangled look full of thickets of line and pools of darkness. Their peculiar sense of space (which looks incoherent in reproduction, but at full scale is not) is recognizable at once to anyone who has gone through swamp: no horizon to be seen, only a succession of angles that, when the eye pushes through them, disclose more tangles beyond. The light is murky. Such...