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Podcast: Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The Bandage
Episode: S3E42 - RACIST FAMILY ADOPTS BIRACIAL CHILD UNKNOWINGLY AND NEVER REVEALS — AUTHOR SHAWN, "BORN WITHOUT A RACE"
Description: In 1963, Shawn was placed for adoption because his white
mother's family didn't want a biracial grandson. As an infant, he passed for white, so he was adopted by a racist, rural Indiana family who didn't realize that he was Black. Ashamed of his ethnicity, his mom concocted lies to hide his race from everyone, including Shawn.
This lack of racial identity caused depressing confusion and conflict with his education, relationships, and career, but his mom insisted that he was not to search for his birth family
until after she died.
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