Amala Ekpunobi

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16,149 appearances 107 recordings 4 series first heard Jun 2022 last heard 13 Sep

Amala Ekpunobi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Amala Ekpunobi · A White Family Adopted Her. She’s Calling Them Racist. · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

So, hi, my name is AB.

I'm a 32 year old black woman, mixed race black woman adopted by an entirely white family.

And I am now in my early thirties, finally starting to understand what it means to be a black woman in America.

Okay, and I do wonder what she means by that. podcast-host

What does it mean to be a black woman in America? podcast-host

Why so much emphasis on the fact that you were adopted by an entirely white family as if that somehow matters? podcast-host

I mean, apparently to her, it does matter. podcast-host

We're going to hear more about her experience and the internalized racism that this family subjected her to. podcast-host

But do you not feel as though maybe they feel a little bit abandoned? podcast-host

Maybe they're experiencing a little bit of grief given you coming to the table and saying, you guys are racist, please acknowledge it. podcast-host

And please do some anti-racism work or you do not have a relationship with me. podcast-host

I imagine they're going through a little bit of suffering right now, given that they took care of you, raised you into your adulthood, and now you're throwing racism allegations right in their face. podcast-host

In all fairness, I'm sure there's much that coincides with being adopted and there's grief and sadness and sorrow that can coincide with that. podcast-host

At least she says in her experience, that has been the case. podcast-host

But the racial part of this is a whole nother thing. podcast-host

One of the least racist things you could possibly do in your lifetime is adopt a kid of a different race. podcast-host

That is not the thing that racists tend to do. podcast-host

But I think you could grow up as an adopted child in a family that is predominantly white or entirely white, as she states, and notice this difference. podcast-host

And there will be people there ready to prey upon that difference. podcast-host

And I think that's what she's speaking to when she says she's learned about what it means to be a black woman in America. podcast-host

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