In their fourth episode, co-hosts and interracial adoptive siblings, Greg and Hannah divert from their typical format of listener submitted topics and questions to address comments made recently (4-26-24) by, UFC 303 Headliner and transracially adoptive father, Michael Chandler on The Shawn Ryan Show.

When asked about how Chandler approaches raising his two, Black adopted sons, he said, "I'm not raising black children, I'm raising children. Whether you are black or you are white, no matter what race that you are,.. Being a good man, a good man of reputation, none of that has to do with skin color. Everything has to do with the character of the man. Probably not an answer that some people would say is important but that's where the world has gone. Where we think that the most important thing about us is our skin color or our gender or our political affiliation."

After hearing this quote and watching the entire interview, Hannah and Greg, were struck by Chandler's racial colorblindness, and wanted to take the necessary time to center the impacts of racial colorblindness on Black adoptees and their experiences.

Works Referenced:

Standing in the Gap: An Unapologetic, Reflective Workbook on Meeting the Needs the Transracial Adoptee in Your Life by Hannah Jackson Matthews, M.S.Ed https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVVD11DP

Michael Chandler on The Shawn Ryan Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7y2-i9t3Pw&t=6777s