"But What About The Children?" Published, February 2019
Mid-February 2019 I Finally Published with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) But What About the Children? Diversity is Life: A Memoir by Shirley A. Blair Keller You may purchase this book on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle Trying to stop my mother from marrying a black man, my grandfather asked Mother, “If you do not care about yourself, what about the children?” It didn’t stop the marriage. I lived with the question a lifetime and decided to write an answer to my grandfather. Struggles were a plenty with parents who were social activists, in a time of segregation, anti-immigration, and religious bigotry prevalent in the majority culture of the land. Families come in many forms: blood, by marriage, by adoptions, adding siblings that are birth, steps, halves, and relationships-of-the-heart. Secrets and lies are a part of the tapestry. Figures like Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker, heroes in the movement for equality and justice, ar...