Yay, a Submission!
I’m a white boy, or at least half-white(I don’t know my ethnicity, I do know my birth-father is likely Serbian and my birth-mom might be native-american andor Mexican, but I am white-passing) , who was adopted into a black family at a young age. It’s shocking to me how people can just appropriate and abuse black culture and whine about how they can’t say certain words. I am not the perfect ally myself, but I learned at a young age about the privileges I have compared to my siblings and the rest of the family, and it’s especially annoying when white people say they can use certain words or wear certain things because of the environment they grew up in or whatever. I also notice that people do make racist remarks to my face, but it’s geared at my family members. They’ve accused my parents of kidnapping me when I was younger and constantly ask questions about why I was adopted and if I would have preferred a white family. These people don’t deserve to know why I was adopted, nor do they need to know that I probably wouldn’t be alive if I stayed with the birth parents. - Anonymous Here is a story that is completely different from my own. It’s horrible to know that many other people have hear the same racist and offensive phrases, or at least something similar. Also for someone to know why you were adopted, know your adoption story, or know any information about you whether it’s adoption related or not it shouldn’t be based on if someone deserves to know: but on whether or not you want to tell them (with reasons or lack of reasons) or if you don’t care and end up telling them. Also, please send more stories, this isn’t just a page of me alone reposting posts, this is a community, I want you to be included. - Ki
