SC lieutenant governor-elect shares how foster care and adoption shaped his priorities

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina Lt. Gov.-elect Mike Reichenbach says his experience in foster care and adoption is shaping one of his priorities for the incoming administration: making adoption more accessible and affordable for families.In an interview with WIS following the Nov. 3 election, Reichenbach said he was placed in foster care as a baby before being adopted by a white family from Germany. He said his parents made sure he was proud of his identity as a Black child and knew he belonged in their family.“My mom and dad, God bless them, they would put me on their lap, and she would sing to me, like, I am black and I am beautiful,” Reichenbach said. “And she would have me sing that over and over and over, because she wanted to make sure that I was proud to be black and proud to be who I was, and I was still a Reichenbach, nothing more, nothing less.”“They were such good parents because they taught me that my origin story was not going to determine my future,” Reichenbach sai