Mike Johnson's Black Son
29 Oct 2023 • 6 comments
The new Speaker claims he "adopted" a 14-year-old Black boy in the 1990s. But not through official adoption channels.
By the time he was 27 years old, Mike Johnson had not only tied the knot with his bride Kelly—a particularly tight knot called a "covenant marriage."
He had also become a new Dad to a 14-year-old Black "son."
How did that happen, you ask?
It was quite simple, actually.
He just “took custody."
What???
That's how they do things in Louisiana, I guess.
You meet a kid at an "evangelical youth group," take him home. And then he's yours.
As his Communications Director admitted this week, Johnson didn't bother going through a "lengthy adoption process."
Maybe Johnson thinks The Bible allows it.
What's wrong with this picture?
The news that America's new 51-year-old white Christian Nationalist Speaker has a 38-year-old Black son was a surprise to many people, especially those unable to...
https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/mike-johnsons-black-son/
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