Chestertown’s Seshat Walker, her husband Carl, along with children Phina (12) and Dahvi (9), are on Ebony Magazine’s “Coolist Black Families” in America list for 2013.
“Carl Walker, born in Washington, DC, romanticized the idea of marriage when he was in his teens—a testimony to his parents, married for 56 years. “That’s a commitment right there!” he affirms. However, as he matured into a successful musical artist, his notes changed. “I don’t believe that people should have to marry for kids or because of how we’re socialized,” Carl says. Also, observing the marriages around he thought, “No, I don’t want to be married! Not me!”
Enter Seshat (pronounced se-hot). Seshat grew up with both her parents and brother (they share the same birthday) in the fishing and farming town of Chestertown on the Eastern Shore. She recalls, “I was on the poetry scene. Carl was in the music scene in the ’90s, when those cultures were merging.”
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Mike Hunt says
As the husband says about buying a house in a “black” neighborhood, “Living in the city, we wanted our kids not to be afraid of their own folks. We wanted to make sure they could function among their people…”
It’s almost like an ode to segregation. And that’s really too bad…