Adoptees: Speak Truth to Power

Was just listening to Tavis Smiley's radio broadcast on the State of the Black Union.

A excellent speaker talked about the importance of speaking truth to power and someone else paraphrased Malcom X that black people didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on them. There was also a call to challenge authority.

At some point, a speaker said no apology for slavery was forthcoming and an Important Person in Power said black people "should just get over it" or some such nonsense.

And it all resonated.

It got me to thinking of where we adoptees are in OUR struggle to be heard.

If the evil system that was the Closed Era - which ended relatively recently - represents OUR enslavement then we are not very far along at all.

We are just finding our voices. Gathering strength. Trying to articulate all those things that an entire industry is dedicated to silencing. The internet has allowed us to find each other. There are more of us disgruntled adoptees (I think Possum coined this term and I love it!) than the industry would have the world believe.

Adoptees are a class of people without power. Decisions are made for us. We are condescended to throughout our lives. We are told to "get over it." There are rights just for us and the rights everybody else gets. We are the subject of documents issued by the Catholic Church (as mocked by Mia).

It is early days yet in our struggle.