It’s a story about my mother, and the White relatives who shunned me at birth—and still somehow became family.
I now know one of the reasons my family didn’t tell me about my mom’s illness is because they didn’t know how.
I vividly recall thinking as I looked at my mom: I didn’t know a White person could suffer like this.
I saw White, Black, and brown people hug and call each other “brother” and “sister” after worship service.
John Blake is a Senior Writer at CNN and the author of “More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew.”