Oprah Sends Out False Message That Reunions Don't Go Well!
Adoptees had [and have] a first family before they were adopted! Yeeaaah! What a revelation! Gee, whillikers! Golly, gee whiz!...
A female adoptee at the 30th American Adoption Congress' National Adoption Conference which began on April 22, 2009, told us that she was on The Oprah Winfrey Show all of five minutes not too long ago. She told Oprah of her reunion with her first family and how well it has unfolded!
The adoptee confided that, in turn, Oprah rolled her eyes [like only Oprah can do] and gritted her teeth [like only Oprah can], and joked, "Hey, folks, just because this is a good reunion, doesn't mean that other reunions will be good! Don't be callin' me to reunite you!!!"
Some adjectives that describe Oprah's disrespectful response to, and defective expertise about, this highly-charged, and exclusively SERIOUS and SOLEMN topic that quickly come to mind are: Discouraging! Negative! Ill-informed! Uneducated! Insulting! Insensitive! Unsavvy! Naive! Disappointing! Even, discriminatory!
Here's OUR message back to Oprah, and others not conversant about the adoption constellation:
Most reunions go extremely well, and even if they don't evolve in an amicable fashion, it is vitally valuable and necessary for ANY and EVERY human being to know ALL of their ANCESTRAL, BIOLOGICAL, and ABSOLUTE MEDICAL... information! All of the inhabitants of the whole world take this PRIVATE and PERSONAL information for granted! Except the adoptee! The degree to which a reunion succeeds or flourishes depends entirely upon the severity of the emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical, damage sustained by the adoptee and especially his, or her, first mom [but, also his, or her, dad and the rest of his, or her, lineage...] because of the loss - because of the separation of the first family and the subsequent creation of the adoptive family!!!
You wonder, "Whaaat!? Physical damage?" For example, many adoptees and the moms who lost them, resort to drugs and/or alcohol to numb the pain of the loss and separation.... First dads, too, and extended first family members feel a hollow longing, an emptiness, a pain... an amputation - like feeling a "phantom limb."
Through her naive and presumptuous proclamation from her elevated ivory tower away from what's really happening "out there," Oprah condescendingly intimates to her adopted viewers and their first families, "I know you're out there in television viewer land salivating for that info about yourself like little puppy dogs, but I'm afraid that your personal, private, information ~ ~ ~ your REAL nationality, race, your REAL 1st and last name, the names and pictures and stories of your relatives, who am I? ~ ~ ~ YOUR ANCESTRY is not for you! The adopted person is a peon! Not as good as! You're a 2nd-class citizen! THE STATE has your private, personal, information but you can't have it! You must remain forever a child! An amputee! How do ya' like that!? Don't be callin' me about that bullshit!" [<-This is the only time that questionable language will be used in this blogcast to make a point and we deeply apologize for its use!]
[Not only do adoptees have the right to their private information like everyone else, but also their first families have the right to know their lost family members; in particular, first moms deserve to know their lost children; after all, they're the producers. Without them, there is nothing! A little courtesy, please. Let us not view them as baby machines!]
We have NEVER ONCE heard Oprah joke about HER African ancestry and heritage, or any other African-American's ancestry and heritage! We have NEVER ONCE heard a joke from the lips of Oprah about the ancestry of African-American slaves! Our beloved Oprah has NEVER ONCE spoken lightly about the continent of Africa! No light banter! No intimating. No joking about getting back in touch with African roots! In fact, aren't there laws on the books that call for complete and utter respect for anything African!? We have laws on the books just for Oprah, and her people. No joke!
This may seem somewhat odd TO YOU AND TO OPRAH - DON'T LAUGH TOO HARD! - but adoptees and their 1st families would like this same respect shown to their ancestry!
A female adoptee at the 30th American Adoption Congress' National Adoption Conference which began on April 22, 2009, told us that she was on The Oprah Winfrey Show all of five minutes not too long ago. She told Oprah of her reunion with her first family and how well it has unfolded!
The adoptee confided that, in turn, Oprah rolled her eyes [like only Oprah can do] and gritted her teeth [like only Oprah can], and joked, "Hey, folks, just because this is a good reunion, doesn't mean that other reunions will be good! Don't be callin' me to reunite you!!!"
Some adjectives that describe Oprah's disrespectful response to, and defective expertise about, this highly-charged, and exclusively SERIOUS and SOLEMN topic that quickly come to mind are: Discouraging! Negative! Ill-informed! Uneducated! Insulting! Insensitive! Unsavvy! Naive! Disappointing! Even, discriminatory!
Here's OUR message back to Oprah, and others not conversant about the adoption constellation:
Most reunions go extremely well, and even if they don't evolve in an amicable fashion, it is vitally valuable and necessary for ANY and EVERY human being to know ALL of their ANCESTRAL, BIOLOGICAL, and ABSOLUTE MEDICAL... information! All of the inhabitants of the whole world take this PRIVATE and PERSONAL information for granted! Except the adoptee! The degree to which a reunion succeeds or flourishes depends entirely upon the severity of the emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical, damage sustained by the adoptee and especially his, or her, first mom [but, also his, or her, dad and the rest of his, or her, lineage...] because of the loss - because of the separation of the first family and the subsequent creation of the adoptive family!!!
You wonder, "Whaaat!? Physical damage?" For example, many adoptees and the moms who lost them, resort to drugs and/or alcohol to numb the pain of the loss and separation.... First dads, too, and extended first family members feel a hollow longing, an emptiness, a pain... an amputation - like feeling a "phantom limb."
Through her naive and presumptuous proclamation from her elevated ivory tower away from what's really happening "out there," Oprah condescendingly intimates to her adopted viewers and their first families, "I know you're out there in television viewer land salivating for that info about yourself like little puppy dogs, but I'm afraid that your personal, private, information ~ ~ ~ your REAL nationality, race, your REAL 1st and last name, the names and pictures and stories of your relatives, who am I? ~ ~ ~ YOUR ANCESTRY is not for you! The adopted person is a peon! Not as good as! You're a 2nd-class citizen! THE STATE has your private, personal, information but you can't have it! You must remain forever a child! An amputee! How do ya' like that!? Don't be callin' me about that bullshit!" [<-This is the only time that questionable language will be used in this blogcast to make a point and we deeply apologize for its use!]
[Not only do adoptees have the right to their private information like everyone else, but also their first families have the right to know their lost family members; in particular, first moms deserve to know their lost children; after all, they're the producers. Without them, there is nothing! A little courtesy, please. Let us not view them as baby machines!]
We have NEVER ONCE heard Oprah joke about HER African ancestry and heritage, or any other African-American's ancestry and heritage! We have NEVER ONCE heard a joke from the lips of Oprah about the ancestry of African-American slaves! Our beloved Oprah has NEVER ONCE spoken lightly about the continent of Africa! No light banter! No intimating. No joking about getting back in touch with African roots! In fact, aren't there laws on the books that call for complete and utter respect for anything African!? We have laws on the books just for Oprah, and her people. No joke!
This may seem somewhat odd TO YOU AND TO OPRAH - DON'T LAUGH TOO HARD! - but adoptees and their 1st families would like this same respect shown to their ancestry!
Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 4/28/2009 8:27 AM 
Categories: Celebrity and Adoption
Tags: adoptee american adoption congress open records ancestry oprah
Categories: Celebrity and Adoption
Tags: adoptee american adoption congress open records ancestry oprah
Humm... interesting,
Keep up the good work,
Thanks for writing about it
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Unfortunately most reunions are awkward and unpredictable. I really think that television is probably the absolute worst format to have one of these things unfold, but too many house moms like the drama. Not a big fan of Oprah already, but now my beliefs about her have been confirmed. Thanks for the post.
Ryan
HSA
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