superstar allen iverson. and teenage kaepernick wanted corn rolls to match. he s getting what rolls, his mom asked? you look like a little thug. your mom said that to you. yeah. it s spaces where, how do i navigate the situation now? and it s why i have my hair long today. cnn attempted to reach out to his parents but not did not receive a response. he brings up a lot of issues here. l.z., what do you hear here? it s messy. he s right, you know. he is right. i just personally would not have chosen to say that about my parents, who saved my life and raised me. i m not saying his argument or perspective is wrong. i m in an interracial marriage. i have heard comments made that i had to check people who love me. he s right. that does exist. but i m not going to write a list about my relatives and put them on blast like that. although, i just did. but i didn t write a book. i m not going to profit from it. i think it s lazy. i think that if you look at what just transp
transracial adoptees. so i think that authors, activists like colin and so many other adult adoptees out here trying to honor our parents and also honor ourselves yeah, rhonda, i have a question for you. yeah, i appreciate that. i read your notes. you said there were times that you i don t know if you really thought you were white, but there was a color blindness to your childhood. explain what that felt like. yes. okay, so basically, the foundation of transracial adoption is on a color blind platform, and it s tied to federal policy. the multiethnic act of 1994, and it says we have black and brown
and interesting and important. and i thought that that is just i was like, welling up a little bit. i mean, that is she s that is what we have to do, and that is what we all do growing up. wow. i think those are also really enlightening to hear her talk about this. but what i read, a lot of the same outcomes can happy with biracial. barack obama talked about his white grandparents and the racism that your white father there is a lot of similarity. i would like to know if there are sameimilarities with that. go ahead, rhonda. there are similarities. i think where there are differences, so many of us as adoptees are dealing with trauma, grief, loss. we have been pulled from our
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