A poet pieces together an uncertain past in 'Memoir of a Kidnapping' (Tonya Mosley; Fresh Air podcast)

Poet and author Shane McCrae says he was almost 4 years old when he was kidnapped from his Black father in Oregon by his maternal grandparents, who were white supremacists.

"They took me to Round Rock, Texas, which is a suburb of Austin," McCrae says. "And they told my mother that if she ever tried to get custody of me — and, I also think, if she ever tried to tell my father where I was — that she would never see me again, they would disappear to Mexico."
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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/09/1192789607/shane-mccrae-pulling-the-chariot-of-the-sun