DISABLED BLACK PLUMBER RELEASES MEMOIR ABOUT DISCRIMINATION THAT HE FACED FOR HIRING MINORITIES
Bookcover and author, Sherman L. Turner Buffalo, NY - Sherman Turner's gripping memoir, Unforgettable 'Memoir': God Remember Me , describes his experience as an African American plumber who faced discrimination for hiring minorities. Upset by Turner's actions, the white contractor he worked with retaliated by making several death threats and even told him he had a contract on Turner's life. The stress of this situation caused Turner to suffer a stroke leaving him 99 percent paralyzed. When he came out of the coma, he was unable to move, walk, or talk, and suffered partial memory loss. Now he remembers saying, "God remember me." The hospital told him he could never walk or talk again. He soon went home helpless and in a wheelchair. The doctors told him not to trust his wife after she tried to have his legs cut off. On his first day home his wife left him alone, helplessly in a wheelchair. All he could do was cry! Turner really felt like &q