there was a black woman who had been the foster parent then adopted mother of a biracial girl. The girl's sister, who was white, had also been in the home as a foster child but later moved out for reasons which escape me now. To keep with what Michigan claims it encourages, plus because a relationship had grown with the foster mother and the white sister, she tried to adopt her. It took her years because social workers tried to find every excuse in the book (and out) to keep the girl away from that house, but she finally was adopted and lives with her new mother and sister.

In cases such as this, I don't have a problem with interracial adoption. If the numbers were even as far as children of other races being adopted by non-white parents, I wouldn't have a gripe. But there are too many children of color being adopted by people who have absolutely no concept of what it is like to be, live around, congregate with people of color. Remember Losing Isiah, "When was the last time you had a black person over for dinner?", "Does he have any dolls of color besides Bert and Ernie? (something like that)".

I think that it is selfish to adopt a child, say that race doesn't matter, when it does for the child's well-being. Some people have grown up fine in this type of enviroment, but from what I've read and seen in interviews, it was rough.

Plus, I've know white people who adopt children of different races and still carry racist attitudes toward poc's(people of color). How dare someone show off pictures of their Asian child, but snub a Latino for asking them a simple work-related question.

I'm venting. Okay, my point's made.

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