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Posted By TheNewsCommenter: From Thedailybeast.com: “Racist RSVP Cannot Ruin 9-Year-Old’s Birthday”. Below is an excerpt from the article.
There was a public outpouring after the party girl’s mom shared the heartbreaking incident on social media.
At the approach of her daughter’s 9th birthday last week, Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara sent her daughter to school with party invitations in bright yellow and white envelopes for her close friends.
But the daughter still had one of the invitations when she returned home. Her explanation pained Opara as both a Black mother and a physician researcher who studies systemic racism in health care.
“She said this person will not be able to come because their grandfather does not like black people,” Opara told The Daily Beast.
Opara, who is 41 and lives in metropolitan Detroit, experienced what she later described as a deep, heavy sorrow.
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