Amala Ekpunobi
speaker
16,149 appearances
107 recordings
4 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard 3d ago
Amala Ekpunobi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why so much emphasis on the fact that you were adopted by an entirely white family as if that somehow matters?
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I mean, apparently to her, it does matter.
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We're going to hear more about her experience and the internalized racism that this family subjected her to.
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But do you not feel as though maybe they feel a little bit abandoned?
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Maybe they're experiencing a little bit of grief given you coming to the table and saying, you guys are racist, please acknowledge it.
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And please do some anti-racism work or you do not have a relationship with me.
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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.
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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.
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At least she says in her experience, that has been the case.
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But the racial part of this is a whole nother thing.
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One of the least racist things you could possibly do in your lifetime is adopt a kid of a different race.
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That is not the thing that racists tend to do.
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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.
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And there will be people there ready to prey upon that difference.
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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.
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It means she previously didn't have an experience that dictated that her race made her any different from anyone around her.
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She probably got that from her parents and the family that she grew up with, a colorblind existence.
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Now in her adulthood, probably because of influences that she is finding online or in whatever spaces she's in, she's been taught to acknowledge and recognize the difference.
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Even more than that, she's been taught that the difference means that she is oppressed, not only by the system and those around her, but by her family and those that adopted her.
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Maybe she was always sensitive about the difference in skin color that existed in her family, and somebody was there to prey upon that sensitivity, and now she is, what, divorced and estranged from her adopted family.
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