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.

Racial identity, as a subset of cultural identity, is a good thing. It adds the color of distinctiveness to our lives and it gives us identity with a special group of people. However, race and culture should never let us forget that we are all brothers and sisters.

Racial politics wants to deify racial identity in a way that forever separates us from one another – so that racial identity trumps love and individual identity.

I want to raise my daughter and my son to be who God created them to be. This does not mean raising them as Caucasians. It does not mean raising them as African-Americans. It means raising them as individuals, as children of God, and as members of our family. It bothers me that for some people race is more important than an of this. It is just racism, accepted because it comes from those who used to be discriminated against. Adoption and the love that it engenders erases the racial barrier. I would think that would be embraced by everyone.

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