Your story is beautiful recounting the love of your parents and what they had to endure. Their love is so rare!
I have had a taste of the nastiness that spouts from people toward my daughter and her partner regarding their diverse upbringing, their looks and associations. Not family; but all unjustified and totally based on appearance. Like Meghan Markle.
It's the very reason why I don't engage in critical judgement of celebrities ( especially!) because, in essence, we only hear what the media wants us to hear.
Of course, inegative or contraversial news sells because that's what people love. It feeds the hungry souls who really should take a darned good look at themselves before opening their critical, jealous mouths.
That's why bulllying and racism still exists.