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Welcome to the Wise Thelma Mocha Queen. You said you were adopted by Mennonites. According to you, you were like a child slave for the Mennonites. Is that correct?

A lot of the time, yes, I was adopted by them. It's just like everybody, you'll have some nice ones, some good ones, some bad ones. Unfortunately, in what I went through, it was actually probably one of the worst. I didn't even know that they adopt kids. And they love to adopt Black kids especially. I am wearing this dress today because this is a type of clothing they had me wear with the Mennonites. I just want to raise awareness of how they treat Black adopted kids.

You said in your initial write-in that they would make the Black kids be slaves. Tell me about that.

They collected checks from the government for us. They got paid, but we did a lot of their work from sunup to sundown. A lot— I got called the N-word a lot of times. Basically no friends at school because all the little white girls were taught that Black is bad.

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