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B6 EZ SU THE WASHINGTON POST.SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 , 2019

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Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air

quality data); National Weather Service

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combines over a dozen factors for an accurate

measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Key: s -sunny, pc -partly cloudy, c -cloudy, r -rain,

sh - showers, t -thunderstorms, sf -snow flurries,

sn -snow, i -ice

Moon Phases Solar system

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Richmond

Norfolk

Ocean City

Annapolis

Dover

Cape May

Baltimore

Charlottesville

Lexington

Washington

Virginia Beach

Kitty Hawk

Harrisburg Philadelphia

Hagerstown

Davis

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Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Ye sterday's National

76° 3:55 p.m.

69° 6:32 a.m.

83°/66°

98° 1954

47 ° 1909

79° 3:40 p.m.

65° 8:00 a.m.

83°/60°

98° 1983

45° 19 72

72° 3:18 p.m.

68° 5:00 a.m.

81°/61°

98° 1983

46° 1962

Washington 3:11 a.m. 10:33 a.m. 3:51 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
Annapolis 12:59 a.m. 7:19 a.m. 12:24 p.m. 6:44 p.m.
Ocean City 2:38 a.m. 8:48 a.m. 3:22 p.m. 10:01 p.m.
Norfolk 4:50 a.m. 10:52 a.m. 5:31 p.m. 11:52 p.m.
Point Lookout 3:56 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 2:28 p.m. 9: 44 p.m.

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66 ° 83

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67 ° 79

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67 ° 83

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69 ° 89

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72 ° 91

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69 °

Sun 6:42 a.m. 7:30 p.m.

Moon 3:40 p.m. 12:35 a.m.

Venus 7:15 a.m. 7:51 p.m.

Mars 6:33 a.m. 7:29 p.m.

Jupiter 2:13 p.m. 11:45 p.m.

Saturn 4:20 p.m. 1:51 a.m.

Sep 14

Full

Sep 21

Last

Quarter

Sep 28

New

Oct 5

First

Quarter

0.00"

0.07"

0.65"

30.85"

27 .05"

0.00"

0.32"

0.70"

30.16"

28.70"

Tr ace

Tr ace

0.72"

27 .09"

28.57"

Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny. High 67–71. Wind
northwest 4–8 mph. Tonight, clear. Low 50–56. Wind nearly
calm. Sunday, mostly sunny. High 66–73. Wind southwest
5–10 mph. Monday, mostly cloudy, afternoon showers. High
69– 73. Wind northeast 5–10 mph.

Atlantic beaches: Today, sunny. High 80–84. Wind
northwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, clear. Low 63–70. Wind
northwest 4–8 mph. Sunday, mostly sunny. High 76–82.
Wind northeast 6–12 mph. Monday, cloudy, showers. High
75–80. Wind northeast 6–12 mph.

Pollen: High

Grass High

Tr ees Moderate

Weeds High

Mold Moderate

UV: High

7 out of 11+

Air Quality: Good

Dominant cause: Ozone

85/65

83/71

80 /64

83/ 64

81 /62

79/65

83/61

85/61

84 /57

81/ 70

80/72

80/59 81/63

81/59

70 /51 84 /66

74 °

75°

79°

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Waterways: Upper Potomac River : Today, mostly sunny. Wind
northwest 5–10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility clear. • Lower Potomac
and Chesapeake Bay : Today, sunny. Wind northwest 8–16 knots.
Waves 1–2 feet on the Chesapeake, 1 foot on the Potomac. Visibility
clear.• River Stages : The stage at Little Falls will be around 2.9 feet
today, holding near 2.9 feet Sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10
feet.

Albany, NY 72/54/pc 71/49/pc

Albuquerque 91/65/pc 86/61/pc

Anchorage 57/51/sh 63/52/c

Atlanta 95/69/s 95/72/s

Austin 101/70/pc 99/73/s

Baltimore 83/61/s 82/63/pc

Billings, MT 69/49/pc 74/55/c

Birmingham 95/66/s 95/68/s

Bismarck, ND 55/48/r 59/53/c

Boise 88/62/s 69/52/t

Boston 69/59/r 75/56/pc

Buffalo 70/55/sh 67/51/pc

Burlington, VT 68/54/c 65/48/pc

Charleston, SC 94/75/s 92/76/s

Charleston, WV 79/57/s 82/59/pc

Charlotte 92/67/s 90/70/s

Cheyenne, WY 83/53/pc 74/51/t

Chicago 76/60/pc 69/59/sh

Cincinnati 77/58/s 78/62/pc

Cleveland 72/59/pc 71/54/c

Dallas 100/75/pc 98/75/s

Denver 87/57/pc 82/57/t

Des Moines 78/60/c 71/62/c

Detroit 75/57/pc 71/55/c

El Paso 95/73/s 93/70/t

Fairbanks, AK 68/50/pc 66/44/pc

Fargo, ND 60/49/c 65/53/c

Hartford, CT 72/54/r 75/49/pc

Honolulu 92/80/sh 91/78/pc

Houston 100/73/s 98/73/s

Indianapolis 77/60/s 73/61/sh

Jackson, MS 98/72/s 97/70/s

Jacksonville, FL 98/71/s 98/73/s

Kansas City, MO 81/66/pc 81/67/c

Las Vegas 105/77/s 98/75/s

Little Rock 91/71/s 95/73/s

Los Angeles 87/64/s 79/62/s

Louisville 81/62/s 83/65/pc

Memphis 89/70/s 92/73/s

Miami 92/79/pc 91/81/pc

Milwaukee 75/58/c 67/58/c

Minneapolis 68/53/c 64/57/sh

Nashville 87/62/s 89/65/s

New Orleans 98/79/s 96/78/s

New York City 76/62/pc 77/61/s

Norfolk 83/71/s 81/71/pc

Oklahoma City 96/70/s 94/71/s

Omaha 80/63/c 76/66/c

Orlando 94/73/pc 94/76/c

Philadelphia 81/63/s 79/63/pc

Phoenix 108/85/s 101/78/s

Pittsburgh 75/56/pc 74/56/pc

Portland, ME 63/52/r 70/49/pc

Portland, OR 75/61/r 71/61/c

Providence, RI 69/57/r 75/53/pc

Raleigh, NC 87/66/s 88/70/s

Reno, NV 89/51/pc 81/48/pc

Richmond 85/65/s 85/66/pc

Sacramento 80/57/pc 84/58/s

St. Louis 81/66/s 77/67/t

St. Thomas, VI 88/79/pc 88/79/sh

Salt Lake City 90/65/pc 79/57/c

San Diego 80/67/pc 75/66/pc

San Francisco 71/58/pc 74/58/pc

San Juan, PR 87/76/pc 89/78/pc

Seattle 73/60/pc 70/59/r

Spokane, WA 82/58/pc 65/51/sh

Syracuse 70/55/sh 67/49/pc

Tampa 93/77/pc 92/77/pc

Wichita 93/72/s 92/73/s

Addis Ababa 68/54/t 68/55/t

Amsterdam 64/49/t 63/49/sh

Athens 87/71/pc 88/70/s

Auckland 60/49/pc 62/52/sh

Baghdad 105/77/s 102/77/s

Bangkok 92/78/t 92/78/sh

Beijing 96/68/pc 99/69/s

Berlin 69/52/c 66/52/sh

Bogota 69/46/r 69/47/pc

Brussels 63/48/sh 63/45/sh

Buenos Aires 66/47/pc 67/50/pc

Cairo 94/75/s 94/73/s

Caracas 76/66/t 76/66/t

Copenhagen 65/54/t 64/54/sh

Dakar 87/80/pc 85/80/pc

Dublin 62/48/pc 65/53/pc

Edinburgh 59/43/pc 64/51/pc

Frankfurt 62/49/sh 64/47/pc

Geneva 69/50/pc 61/46/pc

Ham., Bermuda 87/79/pc 86/76/pc

Helsinki 62/51/pc 63/56/sh

Ho Chi Minh City 91/79/sh 91/77/sh

Hong Kong 92/82/t 91/80/s

Islamabad 93/76/t 95/76/s

Istanbul 81/69/s 82/69/pc

Jerusalem 81/68/s 80/67/pc

Johannesburg 68/39/s 71/46/s

Kabul 91/60/s 92/56/s

Kingston, Jam. 90/79/pc 89/80/pc

Kolkata 89/80/t 91/80/c

Lagos 83/76/t 84/76/c

Lima 66/60/pc 66/59/c

Lisbon 87/65/s 87/62/s

London 67/46/pc 66/52/pc

Madrid 83/62/s 85/59/s

Manila 88/80/t 88/79/t

Mexico City 75/55/pc 74/56/t

Montreal 66/52/sh 64/49/pc

Moscow 71/52/pc 71/53/c

Mumbai 84/80/sh 85/80/sh

Nairobi 73/55/c 72/55/c

New Delhi 90/80/t 93/80/t

Oslo 54/43/r 58/48/pc

Ottawa 65/49/sh 61/42/c

Paris 69/50/pc 66/47/pc

Prague 58/49/r 62/50/sh

Rio de Janeiro 80/65/s 83/69/pc

Riyadh 111/82/pc 109/83/s

Rome 80/63/pc 80/64/t

San Salvador 87/69/t 86/69/t

Santiago 59/40/pc 63/40/pc

Sarajevo 72/51/t 76/55/t

Seoul 86/71/t 83/71/pc

Shanghai 86/71/pc 88/72/pc

Singapore 90/80/pc 90/80/pc

Stockholm 61/47/r 63/53/sh

Sydney 66/50/s 65/50/s

Taipei City 92/76/t 91/76/t

Tehran 94/69/s 90/63/s

Tokyo 87/78/pc 86/80/r

Toronto 71/51/c 67/48/c

Vienna 64/54/r 66/53/sh

Warsaw 74/57/c 69/57/t

Today

Mostly sunny

Sunday

Partly sunny

Monday

Cloudy,

shower

Tuesday

Mostly cloudy

Wednesday

Partly sunny

Thursday

Partly sunny

M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M

through 5 p.m.yesterday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +3.3° yr. to date: +2.6°

High: Needles, CA 110°

Low: Bodie State Park, CA 23°

World

High: Fa ilaka Island, Kuwait 121°

Low: Summit Station, Greenland –22°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND: NW 7–14 mph

HUMIDITY: Moderate

CHNCE PRECIP: 0%

FEELS*: 84°

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 88°

WSW 4–8 mph

Moderate

10%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 78°

NE 6–12 mph

High

30%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 83°

SE 6–12 mph

High

15%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 94°

SSW 7–14 mph

Very High

25%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 92°

W 6–12 mph

Very High

25%

A winner of a Saturday

What a day! Skies are mostly sunny,

and humidity is nil for the time

being. Highs head toward near 80 to

the mid-80s. Winds are out of the

northwest around 10 mph.

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Bureau: white, black or African

American, American Indian or

Alaska Native, Asian and Native

Hawaiian or other Pacific Is-

lander. Many offer choices of

“other” or “mixed.”

The lawsuit quotes the judge

who cited racial categories

when he banished the Lovings

from the state. The Virginia

couple, a white man and a black

woman, ultimately successfully

challenged the ban on interra-

cial marriage in the Supreme

Court.

“A lmighty God created the

races white, black, yellow, malay

and red, and placed them on

separate continents,” the judge

wrote in 1966. “The fact that he

separated the races shows that

he did not intend for the races to

mix.”

“Vital statistics” are still list-

ed on the state website, where

all marriages are sorted into

white,” “black,” “other” and un-

known.

Similar racial requirements

for marriage licenses are en-

shrined in code by only a hand-

ful of other states, although in

many more states, county forms

demand a racial identity with-

out any law to back up the query.

Glasberg, who moved to Vir-

ginia to work with one of the

attorneys for the Lovings and

tried unsuccessfully on his 1981

marriage l icense to label himself

“human,” has wanted to chal-

lenge the law for years.

Confederate past, in a state
where both Northam and the
attorney general have recently
admitted dressing up in black-
face.
As people of European de-
scent — white, or “peach-pink,”
per the lawsuit — Rogers and
Churchill felt this was a small
way to contribute to that reck-
oning.
“A lot of these issues are
structural. They’re complicat-
ed,” Churchill said. “The history
of the law is deeply offensive as
are the categories. This is an
example of a reform we could
have an impact on and move the
ball forward a little bit.”
In Arlington, where plaintiffs
Ashley Ramkishun and Samuel
Sarfo tried to apply for a mar-
riage license, a clerk told them if
they didn’t want to identify by
race they would have to choose
“other.”
“When I have to put down my
race, most of the time I’m kind
of forced to stick myself in a box
I don’t necessarily fit in.... I’m
not Asian, I’m not American
Indian, I’m not black, I’m not
white,” s aid Ramkishun, 26, w ho
is of Asian Indian and Guyanese
descent. “We don’t want to put
‘other’ because we’re not ‘other. ’
We are human beings.”
Sarfo, 32, is from Ghana and
likewise avoids racial categori-
zation, saying, “It doesn’t cap-
ture anything for me.”
Forms for marriage licenses
in Virginia vary by county, but
most offer about five options,
generally echoing federal guide-
lines used by the U.S. Census

MARRIAGE FROM B1

Va. couples

challenge

question

about race

“The requirement to identify

by ‘race’ uses terms grounded in

ignorance and bigotry, not in

science,” he writes in the com-

plaint filed in federal court in

Alexandria. “We are free to de-

fine ourselves as we wish.”

The Supreme Court has

struck down laws discriminat-

ing based on race, but not racial

categories as themselves uncon-

stitutional, and Glasberg be-

lieves he is the first to challenge

the collection of racial data on

marriage licenses.

In the suit, he sketches the

shameful history of that re-

quirement.

Virginia passed the Racial

Integrity Act in 1924. On a birth

certificate or marriage licenses,

each person was identified as

“white” or “colored,” and the act

said the two should never mix.

Support for the law was driven

by Walter Plecker, registrar of

the state’s Bureau of Vital Statis-

tics and an indefatigable racist.

After prodding the law’s pas-

sage, Plecker took it upon him-

self to investigate “white” mar-

riages he deemed suspicious

and threatened midwives and

new mothers with marital data.

In a 1943 letter bragging of the

thoroughness of his records he

told a federal official, “Hitler’s

genealogical study of the Jews is

not more complete.”

Under Virginia’s law, people

with one-sixteenth or less Na-

tive American blood were al-

lowed to call themselves “white”

— a concession to the legacy of

John Rolfe and Pocahontas that

infuriated Plecker. He claimed

there were no true American

Indians left in Virginia and all

were “colored,” a decree that

impedes tribal recognition to

this day.

The suit cites former Census

Bureau director Kenneth Pre-

witt, who argues that our racial

categorization needs to evolve.

“I want to stop discrimina-

tion, but I don’t want to do it

with categories that are not

really nuanced enough,” said

Prewitt. “I wish we could get

past the five races. It’s inchoate;

it doesn’t really capture the

complexity of our democracy at

all.”

Kevin Maillard, a law profes-

sor at Syracuse University who

has studied interracial mar-

ri age, said that while research-

ers might use the data, “I don’t

know what the compelling rea-

son that the state would have in

retaining tracking of those cate-

gories would be.”

But he was skeptical of an

effort to move away from race

altogether.

“I think with the deep history

of racial strife we have in the

United States, these categories

are going to remain incredibly

important,” Maillard said. “My

mother i s racially mixed, but she

considers herself a black per-

son.”

Civil rights groups rely on

government data to investigate

inequality in schools and the

criminal justice system and

challenge voting restrictions.

“We need data on who people

are to see if there are patterns,”

said Myrna Pérez o f the Brennan

Center for Justice.

Glasberg argues that “while it

is imperative to be aware of

‘race’ to extirpate racism, it is

unnecessary to continue to ra-

cialize groups victimized by rac-

ism.” Discrimination laws, he

noted, protect groups we don’t

consider “races,” including Ar-

abs and Jews.

The lawsuit’s aims are more

modest. But if it drags on past

next month, Churchill said he

and Rogers “will have some

complicated conversations”

about their wedding.

Ramkishun and Sarfo are in

less of a rush; they’ve been

engaged for two years already

and aren’t planning a ceremony

until sometime next year. They

would like to get married in

Virginia, where they met work-

ing at the Abercrombie & Fitch

in the Fashion Centre at Penta-

gon City. But Sarfo said he

doesn’t understand why Vir-

ginia doesn’t simply change the

law.

“If you’re really saying you’ve

come that far, why not use

common sense?” he said. “Just

get rid of the question or make it

optional, knowing exactly why it

was put on there in the first

place.”

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Samuel Sarfo and Ashley Ramkishun in their engagement photo.

She says, “When I have to put down my race, most of the time I’m

kind of forced to stick myself in a box I don’t necessarily fit in.”

BY MARTIN WEIL

Employees evacuated the

headquarters of the Internal Rev-

enue Service in Washington on

Friday, and firefighters marched

in after a possible hazardous ma-

terials situation was reported

there, according to the D.C. fire

department.

The department said it re-

sponded around 10 a.m. to a possi-

ble problem with overheated stor-

age batteries kept for backup use.

With the possibility that fumes

might be generated, the imposing

stone structure on Constitution

Avenue NW was evacuated out of

what the fire department called

“an abundance of caution.”

Red emergency trucks parked

on 10th Street NW. And, air tanks

on their backs, red protective

boots on their feet and faces

masked, hazmat specialists

trooped into the building. Their

garb suggested, in a way, that of

astronauts.

After a time, the fire depart-

ment said its personnel “have

mitigated the situation.”

That seemed to end one of the

day’s more dramatic episodes of

Washington life. And presumably,

the quiet work of raising the cash

that keeps the U.S. government in

operation went on as before.

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IRS building evacuated in hazmat call

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