Not My White Savior

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Not My White Savior | Julayne Lee

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I can‘t help but think of all of those babies who have been separated from their parents at the Mexican border and the trauma they must be burdened with.

This is a preview of what some of them will write very soon. It will be filled to busting with righteous rage. Although, Lee is writing from the slightly different perspective of a transnational adoptee from South Korea, who was most likely stolen from her mother and sold to American “parents.”

MicheleinPhilly I was reading an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer a couple of weeks ago that highlighted the stories of kids adopted from foreign countries by U.S. citizens. Those citizens either didn‘t know or didn‘t care to properly research the steps they had to take to have the children naturalized. Suddenly you have 30 year olds being deported to a country they have never known. 😡😡😡😡😡 6y

JamieArc If you haven‘t read The Leavers yet, I highly recommend it. It deals with this in fiction format. It‘s probably one of my favorite books this year. 6y

Samplergal Yes @JamieArc it‘s another great book. I selected it as September book club pick. So sad we are living through this in the US. 6y

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WhatDeeReads @MicheleinPhilly It‘s so incredibly frustrating that American laws are so inflexible that deportation was the only “solution”. 6y

WhatDeeReads @JamieArc For some reason, I have that book on my “has triggers” list, but I‘ve heard it‘s very good. @samplergal The U.S. was built on this. The least surprising part is the U.S.‘s role. 6y

MicheleinPhilly Exactly. And in many cases these individuals now have families of their own. It‘s just disgusting. I will also 3rd the recommendation for The Leavers. It‘s definitely 1 of my favorite books I‘ve read this year. @JamieArc @Samplergal 6y

Samplergal @WhatDeeReads oh I know. It‘s just that I thought that our country had learned and was better. I think we are worse, as we have been through this and now apparently thumbing our noses to laws designed to do better. 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Samplergal I know what you mean, you go to school learn all the history, right and wrong and you somehow think that‘s all history, in a past we‘ve learned from and are a better place now than then...and then there comes a time of disillusionment where you realize we are still repeating the same mistakes again..and again. I think the current administration is snapping a lot of people out of their ‘I thought we were better than this‘ bubbles. 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa This looks like one I need to add to my list! 6y

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Not My White Savior | Julayne Lee

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I‘m a bit on the fence with this one. It is billed as a memoir in poems. This does give one a sense of her experiences as an adopted child from Korea, but not really anything on specific events in her life. One thing that comes through very clearly is that Julayne Lee is angry - at her adoptive parents, adoptive country, the adoption agency, and her birth country. The poems lack imagery and any subtlety, but I enjoyed them for what they teach. 3⭐️

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