A woman recalls her family joking that she and her sister Champagne might have a different father. When she asked her mother about it at 13, she was told to dismiss it as harmless. Karamo pushes back: those aren't jokes, they're harmful comments that isolate kids and deserve to be called what they are.
When did you start to suspect that you and your sister Champagne didn't share the same father?
Well, growing up, there was always jokes saying like this other guy might be my father, that I look like him and his kids. I never took it serious though. Yeah.
Who would say these jokes?
Family members. Anybody around. I never took it serious, but I was 13 years old and I'm like, hey, these jokes are a little too serious for me.
Yeah.
So I asked my mom and she was like, getting upset, like, hey, stop asking me that. Like, they're jokes. They're jokes for a reason.
Adults saying things about the stability of a child is never a joke. It was insensitive comments. So when we're referring to it, let's not refer to them as jokes no more. Say when adults are making insensitive comments, I found out. When the adults around me were making insensitive comments, I had to question my mother. When the adults around me were making insensitive comments, I felt alone. Because I think sometimes we allow behavior in our families to go on for so long because— we mislabel them. We call it a joke. We say, oh, they were just joking. They just playing around. No, no, no. Label it what it is and maybe that will wake people up.
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