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Jack said prejudice is born out of ignorance and said all interracial couples, and interracial children (they had two), are helping the country move forward.
Jack and Farzaneh Guillebeaux back on the steps of the Baha’i Temple in 2011
A few years later they moved to Georgia, then to Alabama where they currently reside. For their silver anniversary, though, they decided to celebrate at the same Asheville YWCA they had danced at 25 years earlier. Local journalists covered their homecoming, causing the Guillebeauxs to once again be the talk of the town. But this time it was different. People weren’t sneering at them. They were shaking their hands, welcoming them home and assuring them that the community had changed.
People from the local licensing department even apologized for not having allowed them to marry in town.
This summer the couple celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary.
And although society has come a long way since 1965, Jack said interracial couples still don’t go unnoticed.
“People have to think about what they’re looking at and what it means. It’s helping people to understand what the new normal is,” he said.
And that, they added, is a crucial part of what being Baha’i is all about.
“It’s about striving to translate that which has been written into reality and action,” Farzaneh said.