You can get Loving Day in the White House in 5 seconds!
And when you’re done, please share! We have 30 days to collect 100,000 petition signatures. And if we do, the White House will respond to our request to make Loving Day a federal observance (like a holiday, but the banks stay open).
This is President Obama’s last term. The film "Loving" about Richard and Mildred Loving, is coming out this November. The time is now. Let’s do this!
This is a collaborative effort with our friends in the community, including:
Supporting Organizations
- American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Multiracial Network
- Cornell University MiXed
- Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) Conference and Journal
- Hapa Japan Conference and Festival
- MAVIN
- Mixed Marrow
- Mixed Roots Stories
- Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC)
- Swirl, Inc
- We Are The Fifteen Percent
Supporting Individuals
- Selina Alko and Sean Qualls - Authors and illustrators of The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
- Dr. Mitzi Uehara Carter - Anthropology Instructor, Florida International University
- Sharon H. Chang - Author of Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children In a Post-Racial World
- Diane Farr - Actress in Numb3rs, Rescue Me. Author of Kissing Outside the Lines
- Kip Fulbeck - Artist & Performer, Author of Mixed and Part Asian, 100% Hapa, Professor at UC Santa Barbara
- Eric Hamako - Social Justice Educator, Shoreline, WA
- Mat Johnson - Author of Loving Day
- Andrew Jolivette - Professor and Chair of the American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University
- Dr. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu - Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Author of When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities
- Phyl Newbeck - Author of Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers
- Megumi Nishikura - Director of Hafu Film
- Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto, RN - Candidate, El Cerrito City Council
- Dr. Paul Spickard - Professor at UC Santa Barbara, Author and editor of multiple books including Global Mixed Race
- Karin Tanabe - Author of The Gilded Years
Share with your friends via social media
Sample posts (Twitter friendly):
- Get #LovingDay in the @WhiteHouse in 5 seconds. Sign the petition https://wh.gov/isdTY #multiracial #mixedrace
- Celebrate millions of #multiracial Americans & families. Sign the #LovingDay petition https://wh.gov/isdTY
- .@BarackObama last term. @LovingTheFilm out this Nov. The time is now #LovingDay petition https://wh.gov/isdTY
- Want the @WhiteHouse to celebrate #multiracial Americans & families? Sign & share https://wh.gov/isdTY
Images to share:
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Square (Great for Instagram and profile pics)
2:1 Wide Rectangle (Great for Twitter)
