Mary-Louise Parker & Ron Swanson hereby declared Colin Kaepernick's parents

[aprilbegins]

Mary-Louise Parker and Nick Offerman will star as Colin Kaepernick’s adoptive parents, Teresa and Rick Kaepernick, in Ava DuVernay’s limited series Colin in Black & White. pic.twitter.com/WeKuThYX3w
- Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) November 18, 2020

These are the real-life Kaepernicks:

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Comments

Transracial and Transnational adoption

[analievelyn]

Do yall know any people that experienced this?

How was it for them?

Re: Transracial and Transnational adoption

[babyyoda]

Me

I think we’ve talked about it, it’s traumatic af tbh and it led to a loss of identity, confusion about my identity, feelings like I don’t belong in either culture I’m a part of like I honestly feel like I still don’t belong to any one culture but if I hadn’t been adopted and my grandmother had raised me I know I would have those roots and I don’t think I would continue to have such a continued feeling like I don’t belong anywhere.

Re: Transracial and Transnational adoption

[babyyoda]

Hugs 💕 it is difficult to not fit in to either group and if you ever want to talk my DMs are open.

In my case I am mainly white but I look neither white nor part black which is what I am. if anything I look Latina and growing up no one knew what I was because my mom lied on my adoption papers so it was assumed I was part Latina and I dealt with being called slurs Latinas are called. honestly that’s only added to the confusion i feel around my identity. It was a huge relief to meet my bio dads family as a young adult and get some answers but there’s still a lot of feelings like I don’t belong.

Sports Parents

[analievelyn]

Do yall know or grow up knowing any sports parents?

Re: Sports Parents

[l_a_r_m]

I worked with a woman whose daughters were all big into women's hockey. One of the nicest ladies ever!! Her daughter was on the USA olympic team in 2014. She sold us all signed t-shirts to raise money for their trip to Russia... that was the year they lost bitterly to their hated rival, Canada. I was bummed majorly despite never caring about hockey before that!

Re: Sports Parents

[__papillon]

Omg whoooo

Re: Sports Parents

[ekrelly]

Yep. Hockey parents. Rich af.

[justbolognese]

I can't believe Mary-Louise Parker is older than Nick O

[tenma_desu]

i constantly forget she is pushing 60 lol she looks really good

[aeries_amethyst]

Here I was thinking that she was too young to be playing his parent (and how they're always choosing women who are way younger than the males)...Only to find out that she actually is the right age and older than Nick Offerman.

[stf_ugh]

WHAT

Transracial Adoption

[babyyoda]

I think or at least I hope Kaeps adoptive family did a good job while he was growing up and I hope his trauma was minimal but we all have some. I don’t know enough about him or anything about his parents so I could be wrong. Idk.

That being said it also reminds me I was reading a post in one of the Transracial adoption communities I’m in today and someone post a story about a WAP essentially saying they’re done trying to adopt a black child because they don’t want to be hated by the black community for it so they’re looking to another culture instead. It made Me so angry because there was so much racism Involved and also because were not products that you shop for, we’re human beings with backgrounds and cultures and families no matter where we come from....

Re: Transracial Adoption

[slaygalthessily]

That kind of mentality. The people you mentioned are... that makes me so upset. adoption is supposed to be about bringing a child into a loving family, not for clout.

Re: Transracial Adoption

[therearewords]

"looking to another culture instead". Woooooow.

Re: Transracial Adoption

[babyyoda]

Oh it gets worse, she blames the entire black community for driving her into looking at adoption from a culture that is different. A lot of religious guilt is used. I would post more details but our groups are safe spaces for us adoptees...anyways, It was Wild.

[runaround_kid]

i had no idea he was adopted