Pictures worth a thousand words...

One of my favorite aunts married my Uncle Rom who was of Indian descent. Uncle Rom was a bright, engaging, wonderful husband, and father, and loved America. He earned an advanced engineering degree in the U.S. and before he was killed in an unfortunate car accident, he was an American Dreamer. I remember the ruckus within our family when he and Ann Marie decided to marry— family elders questioning this “mixed” marriage. Was he black? He was dark, after all. He was a practicing Hindu, we all were Catholic. “Could...