I just finished reading Alice Walker's account of her life with Mel Leventhal and the birth of her daughter, Rebecca, in southern, segregated mississippi, where miscegenation was illegal. What she wrote struck something with me and got me to thinking about what she said, that it is something, especially looking at the historical aspect of it, to see a biracial child born in a hospital--particularly of Black and White parentage, especially in the south. Most definitely odd for 1966. These children, who have always been around, were usually born in grandmother's bed, in the back wood's out of sight, in secret quarters--attended to not by nurses and doctors, but midwives...or sometimes grandmothers, sisters, aunts, daughters....It is interesting to think of such things and the realities of them....