Liberals: No to transracial adoptions, yes to homosexual adoptions
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The same folks who proclaim to support a color-blind America are aggressively pushing to stop non-black families from adopting black children in the name of preserving their “culture.” They are peddling a study, trumpeted by the NYTimes, which purports to show that de-emphasizing race in the adoption process is hurting adoptees. The identity politics crowd would rather have minority children languish in foster homes than have them placed with loving families who put compassion above racial boxes:
Minority children in foster care are being ill-served by a federal law that plays down race and culture in adoptions, a report released on Tuesday said.
The report, based on an examination of the law’s impact over a decade, said that minority children adopted into white households face special challenges and that white parents need preparation and training for what might lie ahead.
But it found that social workers and state agencies fear litigation and stiff penalties under the law for even discussing race with adopting couples. As a result, families often do not get the counseling they need. It also found that states have ignored an aspect of the law that requires diligent recruitment of black parents.
The report recommends that the law — the Multiethnic Placement Act, which covers agencies receiving federal dollars and promotes a color-blind approach — be amended to permit agencies to consider race and culture as one of many factors when selecting parents for children from foster care.
The report was issued by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a nonprofit adoption advocacy and research organization based in New York. Several child welfare organizations — including the Child Welfare League of America, the Adoption Exchange Association, the National Association of Black Social Workers, Voice for Adoption and the Foster Care Alumni of America — have endorsed the report.
The report points out that transracial adoption itself does not produce psychological or other social problems in children, but that these children often face major challenges as the only person of color in an all-white environment, trying to cope with being different…
…The report comes as the current federal law and polices governing consideration of race in adoption are being examined by the United States Commission on Civil Rights. It seems certain to add to the often heated debate among social workers and the public about the proper role of race in adoption, which has gone on since white couples began adopting minority children in larger numbers in the 1970s.
Christine M. Calpin, associate commissioner at the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services, had not seen the report, but she said the law had helped minority children in foster care find permanent homes.
“I have not seen any research which suggests that federal law has not been beneficial to minority children,” Ms. Calpin said. “We have seen what happens when race is allowed to be a consideration. Children are waiting longer in foster care to be adopted.”
Congress passed the Multiethnic Placement Act in 1994 after several white couples said they had not been provided the opportunity to adopt minority children. The law prohibits delaying or denying a child’s foster care or adoptive placement on the basis of race or nationality.
The original law did allow race to be used as one of many criteria for evaluating parents for adoption. But two years later, after white couples said they were still being denied the opportunity to adopt minority children, Congress passed an amendment that said race could not be used as a criterion.
Supporters of the current law say it has led to an increase in transracial adoptions and a decrease in the amount of time minority children spend in foster care before being adopted.
An examination by The New York Times of the 2000 census — the first in which information on adoptions was collected — showed that just over 16,000 white households included adopted black children. Data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows that the adoption of black children by white couples has gone up each year since 1998, to 26 percent in 2004 from 14 percent.
Those who support transracial adoptions counter that race-matching or trying to find parents from the child’s ethnic group can delay adoptions of minority children and that the practice should not be resurrected.
“The research simply argues against the broad notion that transracial adoption doesn’t work out for children,” said Rita Simon, a sociologist at American University who has written several books on transracial adoption and helped get the Mulitethnic Placement Act passed.
This single study now being waved around by the race tribalists flies in the face of decades of research. Nina Shokraii wrote a damning piece for Reason magazine several years ago on the poisonous consequences of racial preferences in adoption:
Social workers across the country have a long-held practice of preventing the adoption of minority children by different-race parents, calling interracial adoption “cultural genocide.” Since the infants and children involved don’t have lobbyists, their voices go unheard as they get shuffled from foster home to foster home. Meanwhile, the social workers search for homes that will supposedly promote these children’s “cultural awareness”never mind the other ingredients, such as love and stability, that make childhood and life fulfilling.
Interracial adoption began in the United States after World War II and increased considerably in the 1960s as a result of the civil rights movement, which brought much attention to the dilemma of minority children in foster care. But in 1972, the Detroit-based National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW), concerned about the rising rates of interracial adoption, released a statement asserting that “black children belong, physically, psychologically, and culturally in black families in order that they receive the total sense of themselves and develop a sound projection of their future.” The policy was adopted by the Child Welfare League of America the following year and applied to all nonwhite children.
In 1991, NABSW reaffirmed its position that “black children belong to black parents,” claiming that interracial adoptees not only lose their heritage and become prejudiced against blacks, but also are harmed because their white parents are unable to teach them the skills necessary to survive in a white, racist society. The paper states that even “the most sensitive, loving, and skilled white parent could not avoid doing irreparable harm to an African American child.” With that, NABSW made clear that the color of a child’s skin, not his or her need for love and stability, would dictate whether and where a child got a home. Today, the NABSW has modified its position, tolerating interracial adoption, but only as a last resort.
By definition, “last resort” means minority children will suffer delays or denials of adoptions where their white peers will not. There are an estimated 500,000 children in the foster care system. The Washington-based American Public Welfare Association says that 40 percent of all children awaiting placement in adoptive homes are black, though blacks represent only about 12.3 percent of the general population. Furthermore, 67 percent of families interested in adoption are white, while 31 percent are black. Despite efforts to recruit more black families who already adopt children at a higher rate than whites, it is impossible to find enough black families to keep up with the needs of the increasing numbers of black children in foster care.
Black children tend to languish in the foster care system twice as long as white children, while white parents who would adopt them are turned away. This, despite studies and a general consensus among most child-welfare experts that the most important factor in a child’s wellbeing is an ongoing, stable relationship with a parent figure. And every white parent turned down brings the minority foster child that much closer to never being adopted.
At the same time leftists argue that racial determinism should rule the adoption process, they continue to push for same-sex adoption rights because the love of homosexual parents transcends a child’s need for a mother and father:
Single women and lesbian couples won landmark parental rights last night as MPs voted to remove the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a father.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will replace the rule with a “need for supportive parenting” after opponents were defeated in two votes by unexpectedly wide margins.
The Government had been prepared for defeat but won the free votes by majorities of 75 and 68. The decisions mean that the legislation will grant the most significant extension to homosexual family rights since gay adoption was sanctioned.
As mentioned above, the Child Welfare League of America is one of the groups leading to the charge to restore race as a factor in adoptions, but at the same time, crusades for gay adoptions:
In a New York Times editorial responding to the Florida decision, Dan Savage, an author, syndicated columnist, and adoptive father, wrote, “The real choice for children waiting to be adopted in Florida and elsewhere isn’t between gay and straight parents, but between parents and no parents.”
By prohibiting gay and lesbian people from adopting, there are unquestionably fewer potential adoptive homes for children. “If people are going to hold a narrow opinion of who can adopt,” [Human Rights Campaign official Lisa] Bennett says, “they are sentencing some children to a life without a loving home.”
Translation: No to transracial adoptions, yes to homosexual adoptions.
Who really cares about the children? The p.c. double standards speak for themselves.
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moral reletavism, equivolency….on the rampage.
And as an adoptive father, I can personally attest.
relativism. there that’s better
Well, I certainly think that’s the case. But it shouldn’t matter.
As long as there are more foster children than there are adoptive parents, race and sexual orientation shouldn’t be a concern. Getting the kids out of foster care and into loving homes should be priority number one.
I understand the concern of maintaining black culture. However, the concerns on the foster children are more important. They need love and stability.
UMMMM we see the evidence of placing “black” babies with “white” parents all of the time and 100% of the time the problems stem from – the black community. These children are loves by their “white” parents.
Question: If the lesbian couple is mixed race, say black/white, will they be discriminated against? Somehow, I doubt it.
Liberals ruined this country.
I am at once outraged and unsurprised. Since Plato’s Republic through Hillary Clinton, liberals have always thought the state could do a better job of raising kids than could families.
Throw a little identity politics in there and you have a prime excuse to let the state hold on to kids instead of releasing them into those messy, rebellious families.
Barack Obama, while not adopted, was raised by white people so the same logic would apply. He seems to have done pretty well for himself.
Rusty, #4… nice you agree to what is patently obvious to anyone with half a mind and half a heart… but what about the real point of the post… i.e. the ridiculous double standard re homosexual adoptions… ?
From the NY times article:
The article went on to encourage recruiting more black folks to adopt children. How, exactly, is this a “no to transracial adoptions”?
More over, how does one NY times article constitute the opinion of liberals? I’m sure there are a lot of fairly left-leaning folks who’d disagree with the statement “no to transracial adoptions,” even if that were what the report or the times was advocating.
There’s enough to disagree with liberals about without making up points of contention.
Obama had to go to Michelle and Da Rev Wright to learn how to be black. White folks can’t teach a Black kid how to be black, they must go to the ghetto or ‘hood to learn that.
Ironic…….isn’t it?
Hmmmm. Are inter-racial marriages and the progeny OK?
Camel’s nose under the tent. I suggest you read the Reason piece for the full context of the anti-transracial adoption activists’ long-standing campaign.
Or prefer to have minority children aborted. Indeed, one commenter on another blog argued it’s better to abort than to “laguish in foster homes”. Yet the same liberals will b*tch and moan about pro-lifers who “don’t adopt”… give me a break.
Once we get our finances in order, I’d love to adopt – black, white, Asian – doesn’t matter. Too bad liberals don’t believe the same.
Let me get this straight: It’s racism for Bob Jones U to advocate against interracial dating, because of cultural-racial identity concerns, but it is perfectly fine for the NYT to call for a law that in its essence, is little more than the reintroduction of institutionalized racism?!
This is sad, that people would place the color of a person’s skin, over the need of a child to feel accepted and loved when they feel rejected by the parent(s) that birthed them.
As wrong as Bob Jones thinking is, the difference is that the policy is based in religion (doesn’t matter which one, really).
If liberals do something, it’s always inherently noble and good – even if it is fundamentally the same as the Jim Crow laws liberals often decry.
Has anyone ran this “culture” study by Angelina Jolie? I wonder how she is incorporating culture into her adopted children?
Hard to be melting pot when you keep separating the ingredients.
I honestly think that, if it’s at all possible, then a foster child should be adopted by parents of the same race. However it’s rarely at all possible. There are considerably more black foster children than there are black parents looking to adopt. I appreciate the attempt to find black adoptive parents, but keeping foster children in foster care for a longer period of time than necessary is unacceptable.
As I said earlier, finding children permanent homes is priority number one. Racial concerns are very much secondary.
how many white babies are adopted by black families?
how many american children have been adopted by african parents?
i’m just curious. it may have no bearing at all, i’d just like to see a number.
Do these people somehow think that while growing up these kids won’t seek out and associate with other kids who look like them? The whole thesis presupposes that once a child is adopted or placed in a foster home that somehow all contact with the outside world is suddenly cut off. You could adopt a Vulcan and I guarantee they will find another one somewhere to make contact with and “preserve” their culture, but of course the culture we need to be talking about preserving is the American culture.
It’s called “INTEGRATION”.
This is dumbfounding. I can’t even wrap my head around the idiocy, let alone trying to fathom the depths of derision conservatives would be subjected to (rightly so) if they were to say minorities should stay with their own. The world is truly upside down.
Race doesn’t not equal culture.
Libs don’t understand that. Libs are about division and indentity politics.
If you were to point out that American Blacks have a culture of illegitimacy and high school failure. You’d be called racist.
Only liberals get to decide which stereotypes fit and whom they fit.
All whites are racist. Except libs.
All blacks are victims.
All blacks need liberals protection from all whites…except from themselves.
All whites are guilty of oppressing all blacks. But liberals are not guilty, because the love all blacks.
what’s the value, really, in teaching black kids to be black?
am i missing something about the black culture that’s superior to other cultures that desperately needs to be handed down?
tell me what it is. i don’t see anything exceptional.
not trying to be racist, just a pragmatist. what’s so essentially UNIQUE that they’re robbed of in a different cultural upbringing?
Liberal garbage, when can we throw these people in jail?
T.L.H.
We’ll all do alot better when we stop concentrating on ‘black culture’ and ‘white culture’ or ‘asian culture’, and just realize we’re all part of American culture.
Emphasizing differences rather than similarities is the very core of identity politics. It is destructive, rather than constructive.
Yeah, black foster kids in white families may face ‘challenges’. So do all foster kids, no matter if they’re black, white, plaid, or polka-dotted.
For the record though, I see no reason homosexual couples would be any worse, or better, than any other parents.
Are crippled children supposed to be adopted by crippled parents?
Are Russian or Romanian babies only to be adopted by commies?
Are babies who require glassed only allowed to be adopted by parents with glasses.
Hello!!! Babies don’t have a culture nor a nationality. They are whatever culture or nationality or religion that their parents decide.
Are Irish babies only allowed to be adopted by Catholics.
Are adopted black babies only supposed to vote Democrat?
What about Obama, and his Bitter wife.
He is half black, she is all black.
Are they only allowed to adopt 3/4 black children.
How is Obama’s cultrue different from other rich White liberals?
See the absurdity libs?? Nah, it’s about the intentions right?
Could one of you moronic liberals please define “black culture” for us.
This should be funny.
This is just so wrong – on so many levels. These kids deserve a chance at life outside of the system. And the only reason for keeping them in the system is based on the pigmentation of the person seeking to adopt them is just malicious. It doesn’t help them in any way, shape or form. This black culture that everyone is so keen on protecting, please do me a favor and explain to me what “black culture” actually is?
Judge not a baby by the color of his skin, rather judge him by the content of his parents character.
Sound familiar?
This shouldn’t be a criteria at all. Tommy Davidson is a product of transracial adoptions. I’m sure if you asked any of these kids who they wanted to be adopted by they wouldn’t say that their adoptive parents have to be black. It’s absurd to put this sort of spin on something that requires so much more of a family willing to adopt.
I beg your pardon, since when do liberals claim to support a color-blind America?
Perhaps you reffer to legislation that wuold allow only the use of such colors that can be clearly perceived by Daltonic-Americans?
On May 27th, 2008 at 11:30 am, Rusty said:
I understand the concern of maintaining black culture.
The focus on “race” in this country is absurd. Last time I checked this was America and we had an American culture. Not a “black” culture, “white” culture, etc.. if that isn’t blatant racism I don’t know what is. Now what is ironic is that the people saying these things will never be called out as racists by the mainstream media.
EXCEPT of course, if you’re an uber lib singer or film star who picks up babies from Africa like souvenirs from a vacation.
So does this mean no more little Asian girls or Columbian boys for rich Caucasian women who don’t want to be bothered with a pregnancy?
On the plus side, trans-racial adoptions (or foster parents, guardians, etc) give the adoptee some convenient targets to throw under the bus when it is politically expedient to do so…
Is this only directed at “black” adoptions? … that is all I seem to be hearing from these groups … what about all the other races on this earth? … are they saying that all “non-black” transracial adoptions are ok? …
These people are such idiots … and then they expect us to believe them when they always say …
It’s for the children …
Bull!!
Liberals are the busy bodies of the world. They just want to feel virtuous by telling everybody else what to do. Contradictions don’t bother them one bit, so they are puzzled by the introduction of logic by conservatives. They want you to do what they want when they want it.
EQ1, I perfectly agree!
Racism, whether condoned by our religious or social-/governmental institutions, is inherently wrong – even evil: however, I find it incredibly irksome how readily and easily liberals are to see and point out racism in our current societal structures – often where none even exists – yet choose to remain woefully blind to the innate racist nature of their own plans for our society, even though the thread of racism inherent to their ideas is directly and overtly observable for all to see.
Still waiting or our liberal friends to explain what the black culture is…
This report speaks the truth except for using the skin color. It’s really a left vs. right side brain thing. How would these poor black children feel when they can’t even clap right at their birhtday party.
I cant believe this is even being considered, give a child needing a loving family no matter what color skin they have.
I’m sure if you asked a black child if having a loving mother & father to give them everything (love,care,nurturing, stability) their natural mother & father didn’t ,I wonder just wonder if they would say no thanks…. I don’t think so
I would like to know! I would also like to know is why is it so dam# important. Nobody seems to care about teaching Polish culture.
On May 27th, 2008 at 12:49 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:
that’s my question exactly.
also, specifically, what are the benefits of keeping parts of it over another culture.
it’s all BS PC garbage.
the ‘culture’ part is just a way to make you think it’s not entirely a racist proposition.
Let’s be honest folks, this study has NOTHING to do with the children. Nothing liberals do ever has anything to do with the matter at hand. For liberals, abortion has to do with the mother, not the child. In taxes, it has to do with rich people getting off easy, not with stimulating the economy. With environmental issues, it has to do with increased regulation and not the pure love of the environment and the list goes on.
When the same group believes in murdering 1 million babies a year, it is hard to come to them for advice on how to best deal with child issues. But behind all of this lies an opportunity to “break up” the minority system this country has. With interracial marriages on the rise every year and with the prospect of interracial adoption on the rise, the once easily identified racial divide starts to mix. With this mixture comes a confusion as to ones race and the issue of race suddenly becomes a non-issue.
If race becomes a non-issue or a muted issue, where would the liberals be? If my child, who is hispanic/white, can claim to be duel race, she gets the benefit of both. Suddenly, these duel race people no longer can identify with the hate speech rhetoric passed on by the left and the left loses this issue. This is not something that can be tolerated by the left and if that means dragging the children through the mud as well to save “their issue” then they certainly will (re-insert 1 million murdered a year and you can see they don’t mind).
Do those same liberals have problems with the rich and famous (also liberals) adopting children from other countries and other races?
Brangelina, the Speilbergs?
This race thing has been an issue for YEARS. I remember seeing reports on it at least 10 years ago or more. Even when the adoptive parents pledged to help the child study their racial history and culture it wasn’t good enough.
I remember one very sad case where the foster parents tried to adopt but since they were white, even though they loved the children and the kids loved them and had been with them for a few years, they were taken away and given to a “black” family for adoption.
A whole family was torn apart from this garbage.
Funny how the liberals want to convince people that the definition of “family” is just people who love each other and then pull crap like this.
Black, white, gay or straight, a hippocrite is a hippocrite.
Don’t tell Madonna about this. Her liberal brain might explode.
….. texting her now just in case it works…..
Sambo, +1 for The Jerk reference. “You mean I’m gonna stay this color!?”
I’m going to chime in again on this, as I said, based on my first-hand experience.
In 2000, my wife and I tried to adopt a pair of young black boys, Roderick and Artavius. I’ll never forget their names and faces. I never met them, but I loved them just the same.
When our social worker presented us to the “match” committee, we were categorically rejected. I finally got a call from the chairman after waiting weeks for the results.
She kept telling me that they were concerned about whether we would be “capable” of teaching black culture. I told her that my wife and I would teach culture that would transcend race: things like love, honor, integrity.
I was basically told that this wouldn’t be good enough and the decision was already final. She explained that the boys were placed with another family.
I later learned that these boys were not placed and the reason for denying my wife and me was different than what I was told. Years earlier, there had been a lynching in my home county.
Had they told me this, I would have certainly understood their fears. But to lie to me using the lamest excuse in history was wrong — dead wrong.
They would rather children languish in foster care with no one to give them a permanent and a loving family — all in the name of some nebulous “culture.” And we trust these people with family law policy?
I. Think. Not.
/end rant
Here’s the problem. The lib’s have flooded Planned Parent Hood with donations to abort black children. These funds are not being used fast enough for tax purposes. So, if they can keep black kids from being adopted, they can abort more.
I agree sambo and bironetworks. But I’m the same person who was told by a former black friend that I needed to attend a African-American studies course at Temple Univ., apparently I am not black enough or haven’t been properly indoctrinated to hate everything white. The racial divide in this country is wide and deep. It’s shameful that the folks who have deemed themselves the most tolerant among us aren’t very tolerant at all.
I married into an adoptive, multiracial family, and have grown to love and appreciate my new black siblings, my white siblings, and my half-Mexican siblings. You want to know the most wonderful thing about it? In my entire time being married to my wife, I have never, not once, seen the children distinguish themselves based on their skin color.
The beauty of it all is when you take a bunch of black, white, or brown boys and girls, place them in the home of two loving, married, heterosexual parents, teach them to love each other because they’re family, and take race out of their vocabulary and out of their life, the kids don’t know racism. They don’t even know what it is.
I have to…
“Cant we all just get along?”
So, does this mean that all white Americans need “special training and preparation for what lies ahead,” if considering an adoption of a black president and black first lady? Gosh, what gyrations do our brains have to undergo in order to prepare for the experience that is black? Will we not understand where a President Obama’s thinking is coming from, unless we go through “special training?” Ludicrous!
The Libs mindset in a nutshell:
Rights are determined by birth, race, and class, not behavior. Thus, terrorists have rights above and beyond others – they are downtrodden minorities, after all – and racial preferences are fine. But basing anything off of behavior and lifestyle? Far too “judgmental”.
It’s not that liberals have poor judgment – they work hard to have no judgment at all.
Good point. Isn’t that the line they give us to defend gay marriage? A “family” is people who love each other?
Apparently, that doesn’t transcend race. At least not when white people are involved.
abstractmind,
HA! Indeed we can if liberals would just step aside.
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I’m black and my hubby is white. What if we wanted to adopt a black kid. Would we be rejected? Would I be pulled to side and told – “hey if you get rid of him and marry a black guy, this kid is yours?”
Never mind the fact that my hubby is the most giving and kind-hearted person you’ll ever meet but since he can’t teach a black kid black culture then nothing else matters. Do people not see how wrong this is?
Let me get this right. These liberals are now pro racial segregation? Because that is exactly what this is.
So I guess theres no remakes of Difrent’ Strokes in the future, right ?
Not “now” – perpetually, and whenever it behooves them. Check out most institutions of “higher learning” – many have race-specific clubs, racial quotas for admissions, and race-specific programs.
I said it above and I’ll say it again – liberals will justify anything if it suits their agenda. That they’re glaring, obvious hypocrites means nothing to them.
There is no difference between “blacks only” adoption and the “whites only” signs that were in the south prior to the civil rights movement.
We will never be a color-blind society because there are too many liberals making a living off propagating racial tensions, hatred, and myths.
You defiantly could use those classes…and if you take your hubby with you, they may allow you to adopt a black child.
i good with roundhouse kicking them outta the way, ala Chuck Norris.
Hey, I’m not picky… whatever works!
According to the article, white parents began adopting black children in large numbers in the 1970s. War on Poverty (welfare) began 1964. Hmmm…
Adoption comes with its own issues separate from race. As one who was adopted, I have always believed that those who make the final decisions about adoptions, make adoptive parents jump through unreasonable hoops to adopt children using the pretense of what is best for the child. These people haven’t a clue what would be best for the children’s lives they control. It’s a wonder that loving parents still want to subject themselves to this bureaucratic power trip. Adding the race card to this issue, makes it all pathetic. When does this authentically black enough crap stop? It seems that being authentically black or cultivating black culture has incorporated a path to failure. How does this serve the interests of children waiting for adoption. If black families were not adopting black children because the powers that be felt that white families were better, then we have an issue, but black families have not been able to absorb all availible black children. Exactly, what are these skills which black children need to know to survive in the white world? Maybe these skills would more likely hold them back from succeeding in a country moving towards a colorblind society.
Excellent post rambler!
Excellent point
What is black culture? How about the culture of the USA if you live here and are an American. That goes for anyone from another country. If you have to have the culture of your country of origin, then go back home. Assimilate or quit whining about your lack of success and quit screaming for more entitlements.
Who needs God when there are liberals.
Just taking a break and this caught my eye. We’re the adopted parents of an Asian boy (the 4 y/o). Anyway, we heard it a lot out in HI, not so much since we’ve been back about how wrong it was that haole people got to adopt an Asian child. I guess they would rather he languish for years in the foster care system or be sent back to his out of control mother.
30 Pcs, I used to work with a woman whose sister is married to a white guy. About 10 years ago after spending almost 100K on fertility treatments to no avail, they did foster to adopt (what we did) for two little black twins who had been born drug addicted. They had the little ones for about a year going back and forth with CPS people because the husband was white. Suddenly some obscure relative comes up and they remove the girls from their care and give them to the relative. About 8 months later they’re contacted again about taking the girls back. They said no, they weren’t going through that hell again. They eventually adopted a little boy and he came by way of a teen mom who knew she couldn’t take care of a little one and wanted her little boy to have a better life and never thought twice about the fact that the husband was white.
Rambler, excellent post.
terrig,
That’s just so very unfortunate and sad. I’m ashamed that I was joking about that happening. It seems God has blessed your friends with a lil’ boy and I’m sure they are thrilled. It’s funny, when I look at my hubby I don’t think, hey there goes my white hubby again. I don’t think about that at all. I wish more people did the same. A color-blind society… oh to dream.
Englishqueen, wouldn’t the idea of trans-racial marriage be just as “non-PC”.
I mean can the offspring be expected to practice both black and white cultures?
(as if a race= a culture)
fyi, this article sort of sums up modern Anthropology’s undersatanding of the “race” concept… namely… that there is no such thing…
http://media.www.themichiganjournal.com/media/storage/paper255/news/2005/11/15/Perspectives/There.Is.No.Such.Thing.As.race-1057865.shtml
I thought these people got rid of their racism a decade ago.
Does this mean that they oppose inter-racial marriages?
30 pcs of silver. Wasn’t the Democrat candidate supposed to “unify” us and “transcend race”?
I guess the left dropped those notions in favor of keeping black children in bad homes or foster care.
As a white person, I have one serious problem with the idea of my adopting a black child – how do I explain affirmative action? Especially if they turn out to be very bright and hard working, how do you tell a kid that there is an actual LAW that regards the color of their skin as one that justifies their receiving special treatment? ALL children suffer enough with feelings of inadequacy and inferiority at various stages of their upbringing and that’s a big enough challenge for parents by itself without the government driving it home with a statute that can only serve to bolster any typical teenager’s self doubt about their true potential.
So… do black parents manage to handle this for their own black children or are they just as hamstrung by it as I believe I would be?
nyk, mistressjustice?
Please enlighten us dumb white folks why whites are not qualified to love a black child.
So what if a white gay couple wants to adopt a black child? Does sexual orientation trump color? I don’t get it.
My hat is off to anyone who has the courage to adopt – both go through the process and love a child who is not biologically theirs. Someone above threw out that women/couples who adopt “can’t be bothered” by pregnancy. Pregnancy is a lot easier, so I certainly don’t see adoption as taking the easy way out.
Chief RZ said:
They actually do but wouldn’t dare insult Sidney Poitier.
The only reason why black children adopted by non-black parents may face an identity crisis is that they will be constantly bombarded, through the media and certain portions of society, by this concept of blackness and what it means to be a “real” black person. I mean look what happened to Barack Obama. By all accounts he could have turned into a perfectly happy and productive citizen with few complaints about his upbringing by white grandparents, but he was ensnared by black separatist ideals that puts “black” values and culture over plain good values and culture.
That is the major threat to adopted blacks. That they will be corrupted by other blacks who need to perpetuate a “black culture” that consists mainly of perpetual victimhood, grievance mongering, crime, misogyny, and ignorance through the rejection of education. Which brings us to the reason why many black groups and their supporters oppose transracial adoption: the chance that these children won’t be corrupted by these nefarious influences. When black children adopted by non-blacks, or even black families that don’t buy into “black culture”, excel, they present a serious threat to the peddlers of that value system, both through reducing their future ranks directly and by demonstrating that cultural rot, not endemic racism or immutable biological factors, is the major cause of underachievement by blacks in America.
mom2jack said:
Right on!
I have to agree with many here that color of someone’s skin should not be a qualifier to be considered an appropriate adoptive family. Provided the prospective parents have no adverse behavioral issues and have the financial resources to provide a stable loving environment for any child. Despite pigmentation all children are in need of love, attention, guidance, and boundaries to help them adjust and integrate into society. The only culture anyone should worry about raising a child in this country is the American culture.
It seems unbelievable to me that they don’t worry at all about all of this skin-color business when they are putting kids in foster care but they make a big issue of it when it comes to getting them out of the foster care system and into a loving and adoptive family situation …
that doesn’t make one lick of sense …
oh yeah … they care about the kids … forgot for a moment there …
When you’re a moral relativist, you create tangled webs of reason, morality, and “truth” – webs that would be discernable to a truly moral and just person.
A while back, in England, there was a case of a Muslim pharmacist refusing to fill a birth control prescription.
The hand-wringing by certain individuals on the left as to which politically correct group would win out was a fascinating example of what happens when you remove God and truth from the equation.
Same thing here.
Don’t be stupid, Rusty. The “Black” culture as they call it, isn’t going anywhwere. They should be more concerned with the Native Americans if they are so worried about cultural preservation.
Homosexual couples have no business whatsoever adopting children. Your stance that every kid deserves a home no matter what doesn’t fly worth a dime.
Studies show that gay households raise sub-par children compared to traditional households with a mother and father. Also, gay couples cannot biologically reproduce, which is probably why in Sweden their divorce rates are higher than that of heterosexual couples. Why? Because they cannot have as fulfilling as a relationship culminating with children.
The gay relationship can only be a shadow of what heterosexuals can have.
So put the political correctness and craving for attention from tolerance aside and learn the facts, Rusty, before you become an LGM clone.
‘Every child a wanted child’*
*unless the parent is white, christian, conservative, please don’t apply..
I took that to an extreme, I know..
Just waiting until some white kid’s parents (ideally an adopted white kid with black parents) sues over the treatment their child gets in this country.
– white kids are denied the right to even apply for many many scholarships based purely on ethnicity, but never the other way around,
– white kids are made to feel inferior and have white guilt shoved down their throats by liberal educators who are doing far more harm than good,
– white kids start wondering why there is a black month but not a white month and therefore they are further made to feel inferior,
– black and minority kids get preferential entry, even with lower grades, to just about every professional course of study there is, further devaluing the self-worth of white kids,
– in every walk of life, preferences are given to black or minorities over white kids.
Yes, the United States is a racially prejudiced society, but not the way everyone is led to believe.
I never used to think like this, but I can’t do anything now without being disadvantaged because I’m white, and then getting told I’m a friggin oppressor!
Sorry, but this latest is just furthering the racial divide. If you want to make America color-blind, then the FIRST thing you do is start giving advantages to people based on ethnicity – it encourages racism, and creates racism and resentment where previously there was none.
Enough already!
Of course I can’t say any of the above in public, because I’d be labeled a racist.
typo.. should read
“then the FIRST thing you do is STOP giving advantages to people based on ethnicity…”
Blacks rarely adopt their own, let alone a white child….this just doesn’t happen.
I’m still waiting for someone to tell me what black culture is.
I have some guesses as to what libs think it is, but I dare not say.
Children are surprisingly adaptive. I spoke with a lesbian on a bus ride once and she showed me pictures of her adoptive kids and talked about how proud she and her partner were. Both her children were adopted in the states and one was a black boy.
She told me that her daughter was often taken to guidence to see if she was mentally well. She said to them that, “I have two mothers and my brother is black but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re my family.”
And what about interracial couples? With mixed children? While some may have identity crises, that isn’t different from any other teenager. I’ve met some mixed children who do very well for themselves.
Holy crap, people need to relax. The only way you can get rid of racism is to ignore race. And I think these groups need to take a piece from MLKJr, “I have a dream that my children will grow up and not be judged by their skin but by the strength of their character.” Ahem.
Like most liberals, these social workers are the most racist people in America, because nothing matters to them but the color of one’s skin. And if one has a particular color of skin, then clearly one must adhere to the appropriate culture. What exactly is “black culture?” I can think of a few suggestions that would get me banned from this blog for life. What would these people do with my husband’s black colleague who received a Catholic education? Is he supposed to be reassigned to the “correct” AME or Baptist congregation? This adoption thing is the worst type of racist stereotyping, separatism and grievance mongering. Here’s a crazy idea — let’s treat each person we meet as an individual, with respect, instead of assuming things about him based on his color? Can’t have that, though — it might lead to racial harmony, and all those race pimps would be out of a job.
this does have to follow the laws of supply and demand to some degree..
Once again, “diversity” is shown to be the worst kind of racism.
One simply has to apply the test to see if this is racist: insert “white” for, in this case, “black,” and read the sentence back. Better yet, publicly!
Let’s try it now:
“white culture”
“The report, based on an examination of the law’s impact over a decade, said that WHITE children adopted into BLACK households face special challenges and that BLACK parents need preparation and training for what might lie ahead.”
“WHITE children belong, physically, psychologically, and culturally in WHITE families in order that they receive the total sense of themselves and develop a sound projection of their future.”
“WHITE children belong to WHITE parents,” claiming that interracial adoptees not only lose their heritage and become prejudiced against WHITES, but also are harmed because their BLACK parents are unable to teach them the skills necessary to survive in a BLACK, racist society. The paper states that even “the most sensitive, loving, and skilled BLACK parent could not avoid doing irreparable harm to an WHITE American child.”
I think these quotes speak for themselves. Saying any out loud would get you the “look” by liberals.
Also, one has to consider that this is the liberals way of manipulating the system to both make more children adoptable by gays and lesbians, and in doing so, make them more mainstream.
#87… perfect post!