Posted: 18.07.2007 at 15.40
Are you kidding...
Never!
The setting and time;
I was sent during the Summers to stay with my father when he worked as the Mechanic Trainer for the Dominican Airlines at the Dominican Republic. It was a time in which American children were being kidnaped for a couple hundred dollars.
So he hired two body guards, dressed in their black uniforms carrying arms for everyone to see. It was 1955, and I was eight years old.
My first love....
I was in an area outside a small village, and heard the wonderfull festive Latina Musica. So runing, with my guards doing their best to keep up, to where the music was coming from I came onto the village center park - plaza scene and saw dancers danicng around a majestic poll with a totem above.
There she was tall and beautiful womna dancing and performing a folkloric rendition of Merengue, so without hesitation - not knowing better either, I walked into the center where she was performing and looked up and saw her radiant ebony skin glistening with gentle rays against the sharp rays of the sun overhead, and fell in love. Her scent was sweet and her darken eyes were the kind you could get lost in.
With a gentle smile highlighted with pearl whites smile in comprehension as she as well as others in village community saw my two guards smiling and with total control she carefully held out and downward from her majestic frame and her hand out and we danced and when finished she lifted me up in joy'est celebration.
Later she introduced me to her daughters who were about my age and they obeyed her to help me dance more and eat some of the villiage offerings as she likesie did with my guards. Then she leaned down and kissed me on the forehead and I sigh in total love - though childish it may have been. It was total exotic.
Ever since every other girl was measured and compared to her beauty and grace. It even affected me in areas in which there were separate water fountains, as I ignored the signs " colored only " when then other had a line. This scared both my parents and my grand parent when we visiting Atlanta, Georgia. We lived then were I grew up in Miami, Florida. Everything almost went total shock, one time, when I opened a door for a state'ly looking black woman outside of an Atlanta Peach Street Store. Aorund 1959 I ignored all racial barriers with some very nervous parents trying to adapt my new seemingly radical behavior- but is wasn't. I was not going to be cheated out of new resource of personal relationship, if someone tried it would me a fight.
Nevertheless, and the impact she had on me still continues today, and my successful Inter-racial personal relationship is just one of the benefits of this experience. But I will never stop feeling the pulse and thril I had when my heart litterally leaped out of my chest as fell the warmth of love sweeping though me as I still love Desiree to this day.