Our very own Soon Young, author of Peace of Rice has an article in the Pacific Citizen.
With the highest number of Korean adoptees in any state, Minnesota is in a unique position to help build networks.
By Caroline Aoyagi-Stom, Executive Editor
Published November 16, 2007
At the age of 4, Kimberly “Soon-Young” Therres reached up to touch her mother’s eyelids “with their prominent folds” and wondered, ‘how come mine don’t have folds like that?’It is the earliest memory Therres, now 29, has of realizing for the first time that she was different from her German American adoptive parents and two older brothers. She is an adopted Korean.
Born in Gimhae, South Korea, Therres’ biological parents made the difficult decision of putting their daughter up for adoption in 1978. By the time she was five months old, her adoptive parents had come to take her to her new home in Chaska, Minnesota.
“I knew I was adopted, even at that young age,” she said. “I don’t push away who I am because of how I was raised. I’ve always stressed my Korean blood, my Korean heritage. I’ve always felt a sense of pride about it.”
I rad the article you recommended, and particularly liked the section about Miss Medici, the Korean adoptee who was rescued and raised by a white Minnesota family.
I like the sense of race-loyalty and race-pride that Miss Medici has. She refuses to date or mongrelize with white men, knowing that a pure Asian-Asian relationship and the pure Asian-Asian children that they will produce is so much more important.
And what about her pathetic fake Minnesota parents (as opposed to what she calls her “real” Korean parents) who tried to convince her to ignore race and miscegenate with white men! She sure told them, didn’t she!
By God, it makes me proud to see Asians, even Asians rescued from the poverty of their home countries and abandonment by their own people decide to breed true to their race.
It is an honor to read about her, and I will recommend this article to all my white racialist friends. We champion a white race consciousness like her Asian race consciousness and look forward to the day that all white people will be as race-aware and race-loyal as she and her fellow Asians are!
Big Bill,
While your comment is quite amusing, it sadly shows a great amount of ignorance and lack of sensitivity to the kind of situation many non-white adoptees find themselves in. The attitude displayed in your comment is part of the reason why many of them end up doing exactly what Miss Medici has done.
I suggest you read more and talk less. You might even learn something.