Added: 10/30/2005 |
Sad And Secret Interracial StoriesOne of the most poignant interracial stories occurred more than thirty years ago in Houston, Texas. A young couple had recently arrived from one of the southern states along the eastern seaboard. A young white male with red hair had brought to Houston his African-American bride. They had come to Houston so that she could receive chemotherapy at M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. They had been there a little less than a year when she developed an infection.
They entered her in the hospital, but two days later she passed on to the next world. The lady who had shared a hospital room with that thin, Black woman witnessed the termination of that interracial story. That night, the Hospital roommate awoke to see the young white man washing the body of his courageous wife. That scene underlines the love that can be found in so many interracial stories.
One of the equally-touching but less sad interracial stories involved a young couple living in western Massachusetts. There names were Beverly Love and David Rue. They were both students, she at Smith College and he at the University of Massachusetts. All of their closest friends praised the value of an interracial marriage. One of those friends found a very interesting way of indicating his praise.
One Friday night the newly-married Rues were asked to present a Fireside at Mount Holyoke College. Upon their arrival, Mark Sadan had a most unusual way of greeting them. When Mark saw the White male and his African-American bride enter the College's 1837 room, he said, "Oh look, here comes Mr. Love." Mark wanted to show the degree to which he and his friends valued the woman who Mr. Rue (not Mr. Love) had chosen for his bride.
Interracial stories have been created all over the world, and are related through many forms of communication. Intercultural exchanges in Los Angeles related a story that began in Houston, but then continued in Brazil. This story contained tales of a white husband and father treating his African-American wife and his mixed-race daughter to some fun weekends. Later this family moved to a city in Brazil, one that lay as far below the equator as Houston was above the equator. This story, like the other story set in Houston, ended with a White husband burying his African-American bride. But this second of the two Houston interracial stories has an added note of happiness. The second tragic loss of a spiritual companion happened after the couple's daughter, Shanta, had grown into a beautiful woman, a woman who could provide her father with much needed sympathy.
These three interracial stories illustrate the breadth of the movement toward greater interracial relations. They emphasize the fact that many interracial stories concern the average citizen; not all interracial stories are about some sports hero who has married outside of his race. The above interracial stories are about the unsung heroes.
These were people who dared to step onto the then fairly new path, the path of discovery taken by any close communication. Intercultural and interracial communications offer, to those who engage in them, the great discoveries.
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