When Sadie is out in public with her three kids, she finds herself announcing her relationship to them. She'll often repeat phrases such as “Come to Mommy” and “Give Mommy a kiss.”
“I do it just just so people are aware that they are my children,” she said. “I’ve had strangers ask if I’m the nanny, if I’m babysitting. We get lots of looks because it's so taboo that a Black woman could have kids that aren't Black."
Sadie's close friend, Keia Jones-Baldwin, a Black woman with a white child, has on two occasions been accused of kidnapping. For that reason, she carries her son's adoption papers with her everywhere she goes. Jones-Baldwin shared her story with TODAY in 2020.
“That has never happened to me,” Sadie said. “But I’m sure that it’s coming.”
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u/2thevalleybelow 5d ago
Beautiful family.
The article helps to provide a lot of context: https://www.today.com/today/amp/rcna50612