Why didn't they tell me I was black? Part 2
Lives Less Ordinary

Why didn't they tell me I was black? Part 2

B1IntermediateOctober 19, 202637 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

It took years for Lacey Tezino to discover the truth about her parents – what she found out would upturn everything she thought she knew about her own identity. When Lacey left her rural Texan hometown and went to university in metropolitan Houston, her African American roommates informed her in no uncertain terms that she was black. This raised some fundamental questions for Lacey – she had been raised by a white family, who led her to believe that her father was white, and her mother was Hawaiian, and had died when she was a baby. But it was clea...

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And I said, no, Ronnie is my father.

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I said, who's Sunny? And then it's just like, she drops the spoon, she's looking at me and she's like, wait, Sunny is your father.

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And I said, no, Ronnie is my father. And she says, you don't know that you were adopted. And I said, nope, had no idea. There are some astonishing tales about people not realizing the true story behind their adoption.

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But this was just one of many bombshells that Lacey Tezzano had to deal with as a young woman, as you'll know if you heard the previous episode, but the biggest is yet to come. This is Lives Less Ordinary from the BBC World Service. I'm Jo Fidgen and this is part two of Lacey's story. There have already been so many twists and turns. I will fill you

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