the very first man she married , an apparently worthy , an equally dark-hued-as-sara and a permanently-stamped-as-nigerian-secretly-white-though-spanish-surnamed chap , who was also a seemingly happy and hospitable soul , had come to her hidden away under the worthless umbrella of islam , hammily but charmingly claiming it to be a harbinger of future good times and nearby classier fates for black americans .