RE: INTERRACIAL CHILDREN OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES & AND THE SIN OF
PARTIALITY**

Part One

EuroAm Lee Chennault* married and AfroAm soldier after a year engagement.
Her parents were extremely opposed to the marriage but loved Lee so much they
stayed in touch. She was very thankful
since so many of the EuroAms she knew who had married interracially had to go
on in the marriage without the support or love of their parents. They moved
to and lived in France the first years of their marriage and found that their
interracial marriage was accepted there.

Lee writes, " . . . so many white people who marry interracially have to burn
all their bridges behind them. They move into the so-called Black world.
Their families consider them dead. My mother and father didn't do this. It was
terribly hard for them, but they adjusted." (p.83).

My dad from Missouri was a racist supporter of the KKK and Hitler. He told
me he would kill me if I ever dated or married and AfroAm and he had the guns
to do it. During the Watts riots he put his guns in his car and cruised the
streets looking for and a rioting AfroAm to shoot. My mother was from Ohio and
felt AfroAms were inherently inferior and opposed interracial marriage. When I
told my mother I was marrying an AfroAm after a 6 month courtship, she made
me promise to never tell my dad because he had so many heart attacks she was
afraid the news would kill him. I invited my mother to my first interracial
marriage, but her behavior was so offensive though civil and polite that my wife
and I had no further contact with her and I did not invite her to my second
interracial marriage. My dad didn't learn of my interracial marriages until 20
years later the week he died. I figured he was too weak then to hurt anybody.
My parents, my wives and I lived in coastal So. Calif.

Jesus was not a vital part of Lee's life. At age 12 Jesus miraculously saved
predelinquent and suicidal me. Immediately I knew my parents were dead in
their sins and the pawns of Satan (Eph 2:1,2). This greatly reduced their
influence on me and in my life, saving me from their racism because I saw how
racism, partiality, bias, prejudice and bigotry are condemned in the Bible**,
and
how Jesus wants us to unselfishly and compassionately cherish and LOVE everyone.

Lee's marriage failed after two years, for reasons too personal to share,
reasons that were not racial.
As a EuroAm single mom with an interracial child she found that economics
caused her to live in a predominantly EuroAm community. She had to live where
she found work. Her obvious and remarkable beauty and intelligence opened many
doors for her and shut many racists' mouths.

At one social gathering a EuroAm couple began to talk to Lee and their talk
betrayed their racism. The man was a little pathetic in his ignorance. Lee
writes <<I was beginning to feel a little sorry for him. I smiled as sweetly as
I could . . . and replied, "No, he isn't; but my child IS colored, she is
over there, and I think I'd better tell you before you say anything ELSE." He
didn't even blink. His wife gasped. So then we chatted about other things.>>
(p.84) Her child, Desi, played on.

She continues, "I don't want people's tolerance. For me the age of white
supremacy is dead, and I am indifferent to name-calling and social ostracism. I
have found that this calm attitude acts as a bulwark for Desi. I never
discount or pooh-pooh any of her troubles, whether they involve racial prejudice
or
not. But when they do, my own conviction that we are right and they are
wrong, that ignorant people don't count, that the crusade for racial equality is
fought on a level different from this, helps her to see these troubles in their
correct perspective."

"Children are such realists. Provide them with a deep and constant
[unconditional and committed] love, give their lives the importance you give
your own;
teach them about the world we live in, and they will face life equipped with
a joy in being. Help children to retain their natural sense of reality by
being honest with them, and you earn their confidence and trust." (p. 84)

Ruth was a Moabitess, a despised minority in the Israel of that day. Taught
in the way of Jehovah by Naomi and witnessing her sweet and godly graciousness
in her walk with Jehovah, she was insulated and protected emotionally from
the ignorance and prejudice of the Israelites all around her. Naomi and Ruth
were immersed in Love and Loved each other, and so were "indifferent to
name-calling and social ostracism." Naomi's calmness acted "as a bulwark for"
Ruth.
Naomi's faith which had become Ruth's faith enabled her to see her social
problems "in their correct perspective." Naomi and Jehovah-Jesus provided Ruth
"with a deep and constant [unconditional and committed] love", gave her life
importance, taught her about the world she lived in, enabled her to "face life
equipped with a joy in being." Naomi was honest with Ruth, and had earned her
confidence and trust. From Naomi, Ruth learned to rest in her confidence and
trust in Jehovah-Jesus.

End of part one.

Footnotes
*Chapter 13 of MARRIAGE ACROSS THE COLOR LINE, Editor Clotye M. Larsson,
Johnson Publishing
** NT: 2 Cor 4:7,17, 18; 2 Cor 5:14-16; Acts 10:9-46; 17:24-28; COL 3:11; 1
Tm 5:20-22; Luke 20:21; James 2:1-9; 3:17; Mt 22:16; Jude 16.
OT: Lev 19:15; Deut 1:17; 16:19; 2 Chron 19:7; Prov. 18:5; 24:23; 28:21;
Malachi 2:9
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