Red Table Talk's Episode About Transracial Adoption & Black Hollywood Live's Talking Red Table Talk (Reaction Video) About That Episode

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a short video segment of Red Table Talk's October 18, 2019 episode about transracial adoption as well as a link to that entire episode.

This pancocojams post also showcases a October 21, 2019 Black Hollywood Live's Talking Red Table Talk reaction video about that Red Table Talk episode.

A definition of transracial adoption and information about Red Table Talk and Black Hollywood Live are included in this post.

This post also includes two comments that I posted to the Talking Red Table Talk. One of those comments consists of a small portion of an Adoptalk article by JaeRan Kim, a South Korean woman who was transracially adopted by a White couple when she was two years old.

The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are are associated with Red Table Talk and all those who are associated with Black Hollywood Live. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.

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WHAT "TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION" MEANS
From https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/transracial-adoption/#targetText=Transracial%20adoption%20refers%20to%20the,country%20with%20Caucasian%20adoptive%20parents Transracial Adoption Law and Legal Definition
"Transracial adoption refers to the process of placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group.

In the U.S., transracial adoption is the placement of children of color or children from another country with Caucasian adoptive parents. A transracial adoption is also transcultural, with the adopted child coming from a different country or culture as well as a different racial background."...

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INFORMATION ABOUT RED TABLE TALK
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Table_Talk#targetText=Red%20Table%20Talk%20is%20an,thirteen%20episodes%20of%20the%20series
"Red Table Talk is an American web television talk show starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris that premiered on May 7, 2018 on Facebook Watch. On June 13, 2018, it was announced that Facebook had ordered an additional thirteen episodes of the series. These new episodes premiered on October 22, 2018. The show's second season premiered on May 6, 2019.[1]

Premise
Red Table Talk provides "a forum where the perspectives of three different generations on a wide variety of topics are shared."[2]

[...]

Genre:Talk show
Presented by
Jada Pinkett Smith
Willow Smith
Adrienne Banfield-Norris
Country of origin: United States
Original language(s): English
No. of seasons: 2
No. of episodes: 37 (list of episodes)"....

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS:
Video #1: Red Table Talk: All New Episode| Transracial Adoption



OnlySkye, Oct 18, 2019

On our all-new Red Table Talk, our ladies sit down with transracial adoptee, Angela Tucker, as she discusses the struggles she experiences being a black woman that was raised by a white family. We invite you to take a seat at the table with us, next Monday – only on Facebook Watch. “But it’s hard to walk around every day and have people see a black woman, but for me, not to even feel like a black woman.” Our ladies are having an open and honest conversation about transracial adoption on an all-new episode of Red Table Talk....

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video #2: https://eurweb.com/2019/10/21/on-red-table-talk-transracial-adoptee-admits-shes-not-comfortable-being-with-black-folks-watch/ ON ‘RED TABLE TALK’: TRANSRACIAL ADOPTEE ADMITS SHE’S NOT COMFORTABLE BEING WITH BLACK FOLKS – WATCH
FISHER JACK, OCTOBER 21, 2019
"On today’s newest edition of Facebook Watch’s “Red Table Talk,” things get interesting all over again. The hosts: Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris get into a candid conversation about transracial adoption.

On the show, they are joined by Angela Tucker, a black woman who was raised by white parents, who opened up about something she says people “often don’t want to admit.” And that is …?

“People often don’t admit this but a lot of black transracial adoptees look in the mirror and are surprised, when we look in the mirror and see a black person,” she explains.

“Because we’re so used to seeing white people and we see our parents and they’re white and we love them and then we see ourselves, like, oh yeah, I forgot, I’m black,” she continued.

Adding that while she doesn’t identify as white, “of course,” she says that it is still her “culture.”

The full episode of Jada’s incredibly popular series will tackle the “struggles” of adopting across racial lines. Check it out above.

Fans can expect new episodes of “Red Table Talk” every Monday at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET on Facebook Watch."

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Video #3: Raised by White Parents: A Black Adoptee Speaks



Black Hollywood Live, October 21, 2019

Hosts Tyler Simone, Tyler Tyson, and Jade Ming sit down to discuss Angela Tucker, a black woman who was raised by white parents in a predominately white neighborhood. She joins the ladies at the red table to discuss the struggles of trans-racial adoptees and her own lack of connection with black culture.

While the opinions of Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris may cover a wide variety of topics, what about our opinions on their opinions of those topics? Join us for Black Hollywood Live's TALKING RED TABLE TALK where every week we're discussing the topics of Red Table Talk and breaking down the opinions of the hosts and why we agree or disagree with them! Be sure to subscribe and rate to stay up to date every week!

Hosted by Tyler Tyson and Tyler McKinney....
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Comments that I posted on that video's discussion thread:
Azizi Powell, 2019
"I somehow happening upon a video of the Red Table Talk about transracial adoption with Angela Tucker, a Black woman who was adopted by a White couple when she was 13 months old. This was my introduction to Red Table Talks. After watching that short video of that Red Table Talk episode, I found your video. I wish I could watch the entire episode, but for various reasons I'm no longer on Facebook. Can people who aren't on Facebook watch Red Table Talks?

I appreciate the comments that each of you made about that segment and wanted to share the following information with you and your readers:

I'm an African American woman who is a birth parent, adoptive parent, and a former foster parent. In the late 1980s to the early 1990s I was active with an adoptive parent support organization that still exists- North American Council On Adoptable Children (NACAC) https://www.nacac.org/. When I was active with that organization, I was program director of a Black adoption agency which advocated and helped place Black children (include children with one Black birth parent and one birth parent of another race). I'm retired and haven't been involved in adoption circles for decades. However, as a first choice, that agency placed (and probably still places) Black children with Black couples and Black single people, and with interracial couples (one Black person and one person who was non-Black). We advocated that any person who fostered or wanted to adopt a child who had a different racial background than they had (including mixed race children) should understand the realities of personal and institutional racism, and should be proactive in involving their family in their children's culture/s.


(By the way, in the 1980s and 1990s, it was next to impossible for a non-White couple or non-White single person (including a mixed race person with some White ancestry) to adopt a White child from a public or private public agency. I'd be surprised if that has changed.


I could go on and on but prefer to share this link with you and others who are interested in the subject of transracial adoption and the need for transracial adoptive parents to help their children develop & reinforce personal self-esteem AND a clear and strong group identity. https://www.nacac.org/resource/the-personal-is-political-racial-identity-and-racial-justice-in-transracial-adoption/ I'll quote a small portion from that article in my next comment.

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Azizi Powell, 2019
Here's a brief portion from https://www.nacac.org/resource/the-personal-is-political-racial-identity-and-racial-justice-in-transracial-adoption/

"From Adoptalk 2018, Issue 3; Adoptalk is a benefit of NACAC membership

By JaeRan Kim, PhD © 2018

JaeRan Kim was born in South Korea in 1969 and adopted into a white family in Minnesota in 1971. Today, JaeRan works as an assistant professor at the University of Washington – Tacoma. Her research focuses on vulnerable children, specifically those in out-of-home care. This article is adapted from JaeRan’s keynote presentation at the 2018 NACAC conference...

When I was growing up, the only bit of Asian culture I was exposed to was the occasional can of chicken chow mein.

As the only adoptee and person of color in my immediate and extended family, I was always assured my parents didn’t see color and loved me no matter what, and that was enough. After going to college and being exposed to the racial and cultural diversity I had been missing growing up, I began to explore my racial identity and realized that for transracial adoptees, a parent’s love and rejection of racial difference does not meet the need for racial, ethnic, and cultural identity development and support.

For me, and other transracial adoptees, the development of a racial identity is an inevitable aspect of growing up: in the anonymity of a new city, school, or job, a transracial adoptee’s visibility as a person of color eclipses their visibility as a transracial adoptee in a white family. By helping children develop that racial identity before they’re faced with this reality, parents can help their children develop the tools they will need to fight against oppression, racism, and discrimination. Although it is often uncomfortable and difficult work, implementing racial and ethnic socialization with their transracially adopted children helps strengthen trust and attachment by showing transracial adoptees that their parents care about, and support, their racial and ethnic identities.

Becoming an advocate
Helping a child embrace their racial identity is more than just having conversations about race and culture. Instead, parents need to be active advocates for transracial adoptee justice, a process that requires parents to address their own biases, alter their own mindsets, and take action"...

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