Amala Ekpunobi
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17,564 appearances
118 recordings
4 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard 2d ago
Amala Ekpunobi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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chosen to leave me alone instead of doing the work to dismantle the internalized racism in their head, which why the would you adopt a black kid in the first place?
But that's a whole other rant for a whole other day.
I make this video to say they've chosen to go no contact.
And there's a really big part of me that is like, well, I don't want to be messy.
I don't want to just put my family shit out online.
Like there's a part of me that really feels like I should suffer in this alone.
But then there's a much bigger part of me that's like,
No, I already like was born into grief by being adopted.
I already was born into abandonment wounds because of the adoption.
I'm not going to be abandoned in silence this time.
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.
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What does it mean to be a black woman in America?
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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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