![]() ![]() Mary is a child of deaf adults (CODA) who is one of 3 hearing siblings and the only interpreter for her deaf parents. And to make matters worse, her daughter, Mary, shows her Henry’s birth certificate. Lillie left the Michigan hospital room not knowing her newborn son was abducted. ![]() There are many ways to try and silence a crime, but to a victim that already has no voice is despicable. Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. This is why on Henry’s birth certificate Lewis’ ethnicity was labeled as colored. The roommate was a white woman asserting that the “Deep South” considered it a disgrace and "morally wrong" to hook up with a Negro, because offspring of racial inter-mixture will try to pass themselves off as white and have their children registered as white on their birth certificates. Go home and have another one! But don’t come back to this hospital.”Īpparently, these words were uttered because Lillie was black and her son’s father, Lewis, was white, and neither could hear nor speak. On September 7, 1944, Lillie’s joy turned to terror after a nurse told her that her newborn son, Henry, had died, but Lillie’s hospital roommate told her that Henry was taken because he was a bi-racial baby and that because she was deaf. Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me. ![]()
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