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Yahoo Shine: Mom of adopted girls strikes back at racist comments

Kim Kelley-Wagner adopted two girls from China in 2001 and 2008.

Since that time, Kelley-Wagner has received numerous comments about her girls she considers both offensive and racist, according to Yahoo Shine(Photos from Wagner’s Facebook page).

In response she has taken a series of photos of her girl holding up a white board of various things the girls remember people saying to them.

Things like “she isn’t your real sister, you know that right?”Kim Kelley-Wagner's children

Or “you’ll send her back when she’s an adult, right?”

Or “they hate girls in the country you came from. You know that, right?”

You can read more about how the project came about in Yahoo Shine. and see the series of photos on Facebook.

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