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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Thankyou DMC and Zara Phillips!

for helping to expose how mistreated we Adoptees are by the government and for helping to banish the myths spewed out by the Adoption Industry that buy and sell children like we are sacks of potatoes. If you have not read the heart wrenching lyrics composed by these two very talented Adoptees, then take a look at what follows:
"Tell me do you remember
When you’re on the streets
Do you look for me,
The way I look for you,
how I wish I knew, I wish I knew,
as Darryl raps,
At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn My true reality is what I wanna learn
But they are tellin me I can't see the proof On a little piece of paper that holds the truth
Of who I am and what I be Yeah I’m living but I’m missin a part of me
I have a right to know where I come from"

"At night I can't sleep
I toss and turn
My true reality is what I wanna learn
But they are tellin’ me I can't see the proof
On a little piece of paper that holds the truth
Of who I am and what I be
Yeah I'm living but I'm missin’ a part of me
I have a right to know where I come from
Cause it’s my human right like everyone.”

We Adoptees all know we feel these lyrics in our souls every day and can as well further appreciate the words of Zara Phillips herself concerning being denied our Civil Rights in this country:
“Growing up in England, I always saw the United States as being so far ahead, but with this, America is really behind. When I heard how backward things are here, all I could think was, ‘Are you kidding?’”
DMC has made equally important and poignant statements concerning how unfairly we "Illegitimates" are treated in America:
“Knowing who you are is about health, happiness — a human right",
"People who aren’t part of the adoption community don’t know about the issues, the pain, the emotions that can come from not knowing where you come from.”
I am hoping like everyone else, that this much needed musical testament to all we have lost, that also shines a light on the unjust emotional torture sealed files have caused us throughout our lives, will help win New Jersey Adoptees legal access to the little peice of paper that will let them be legit human beings in the USA once and for all, and will eventually help all of us Adoptees have access to our true idenities, our heritage, and our medical records by being granted the right to possess our orginal birth certificates as well. I agree with other Adoptees that "I'm Legit" would be an incredible theme song for this year's Adoptees Rights Protest in July, and I hope DMC and Zara win a Grammy for it! No one deserves that award more than you two! You both rock and will always be heros to all of us....so again, thankyou!

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