Casey ZemanChief Visionary at EasyWebinar

WOMAN lost for words when meeting my TWO SONS 😱

2 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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First-person anecdote in which the speaker recounts meeting a woman while walking with her two adopted sons from Haiti. The children identified themselves as adopted and from Haiti; the woman responded "that's okay," which the speaker interprets as carrying an awkward or negative connotation and reflects on the microaggressive nature of the reply.

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I met someone on the road walking around the block one day with my sons, and it just came up. They were like, maybe. She said, where are you from? And they said, we're from Haiti. We're adopted. And this woman said, well, that's okay. And. And it was like, of course it's okay. You just have to, like. The fact that she said that's okay is like, a response, means that it comes with a negative connotation, right? Like, oh, man, that's okay. Everything. It's okay that you're adopted. It's. That's. That's cool. Like. Like, it should have been, like, cool. Ah, gotcha. That's your life story. Cool.