Tue 7 Oct, 2008
Racial Politics Get in the Way of Love
Comments (0) Filed under: Adoption, RacismTags: Adoption, race, racial politics, Racism
An African-American lawyer defended an African-American woman’s custody of her biological son based on the argument that adopting him to a Caucasian couple to be raised as a Caucasian, was equivalent to institutionalized racism and racial genocide.
It is easy to see why a Caucasian adoptive parent of an African-American daughter and a bi-racial son might find this argument (which the episode seemed to support) a little troublesome. But I think the arguments posed by this lawyer should bother all of us. Continue reading
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