Rebecca Carroll talks about her experience as a Black woman being raised by White parents
Capehart
The Washington Post
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan K. Parton, and this is K-POP. |
| 0:06.9 | Rebecca Carroll rocked my world with an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled, as a black |
| 0:12.6 | woman raised by white parents, I have some advice for potential adopters. |
| 0:17.3 | Her advice was as blunt as it was raw, and it was a microcosm of her book, surviving |
| 0:22.9 | the white gays, a memoir, all about how she went from the cute, precocious, black-adopted |
| 0:28.7 | daughter of white parents who created an idyllic world of their own to a black girl and woman |
| 0:34.7 | trying to navigate the world as it is. |
| 0:37.7 | This is a terrific conversation I cannot wait for you to listen to right now. |
| 0:49.7 | Rebecca Carroll, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:52.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, so I had to get in touch with you after reading your incredible, incredible op-ed |
| 1:05.8 | in our paper in the Washington Post. |
| 1:07.9 | The headline is, as a black woman raised by white parents, I have some advice for potential |
| 1:14.4 | adopters. |
| 1:15.4 | Let's start from the 50,000-foot level. |
| 1:20.1 | Why write this piece? |
| 1:22.2 | So as soon as people started talking about this racial reckoning, I thought, well, are |
| 1:28.4 | we reckoning or are we reckoning, right? |
| 1:31.6 | And transracial adoptees, particularly black transracial adoptees, have an integral perspective |
| 1:40.6 | on race and reckoning. |
| 1:42.8 | We have lived, especially adult black adoptees, have lived in this foundational dynamic in |
| 1:49.6 | which we are trying to be connected and trying to also be who we are while also mitigating |
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