Jones announced that as of today, his university dropped the rule against the interracial dating on campus because it s the most insignificant thing for him and his institution. But if the campus ban on interracial dating was a so insignificant thing as the president insisted on national television, one wonders why it had then been enforced for more than four decades even at the sacrifice of losing its tax-exempt status. While the Bob Jones controversy might be written off as one of those politically incorrect incidents, which have been indispensable appendages to any nationwide political campaign in recent years, the issue also addresses the public perception of interracial and multiracial community in the United States. This was particularly true in the South where, as Gunnar Myrdal, a renowned Swedish economist, observed in 1944 in his voluminous An American Dilemma , the prohibition against intermarriage and the general reprehension against miscegenation had the strongest moorings. Soon afterward, with the advent of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, white southerners unfounded but genuine fears of racial miscegenation and mongrelization keenly manifested themselves.
Miscegenation leads to mixed marriages and mixed marriages lead to mongrelization of the human race.
Brown private group in the region during the civil rights era whose organizational watchwords were states rights and racial integrity. The white supremacist organization then initiated a weekly television and radio series in April 1957 to acquaint the public with serious problems affecting their beloved South.