Child adoption and the "RACE" issue. (Page 3)

Posted by Adreamuponwaking

Posted by Queenofthepheasantfairies

Posted by Adreamuponwaking

Posted by Queenofthepheasantfairies

Posted by TheRabbit
As an adoptive parent, I can tell you there are plenty of children in the US that need homes, so we don't need to be pillaging orphans from other countries.

Agreed. But other adoptive parents should not be shamed for their choice of where the child comes from if they are willing to give a child a loving home.

Yes and no.

I have mixed feelings but only because I have african americans friends who were adopted by white parents

and their level of self hatred is really sad.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't be able to adopt whoever they want.

Race is a social construct but we live in a world where it isn't treated as such

so when a black child tells their adopted white parent about xy and z happening to them ( things their parents will never have to experience because of their race)

it's near difficult to impossible really to bridge that gap...no matter how much that white parent loves that black child.

There also is this whole paternalistic undertone to the whole "interracial adoption" trend which i think is really what bothers CC the most.

I get what you saying. But do you think white people don't experience hardship because of their race?

As a white person, Do you think it is nice for me to read how black people call us devils, how the "white man" is responsible for the fucked up world we live in? The white man caused this. The white man caused that? It's now 2018 a time in our civilization where we are all or rather should be referred to as Human Beings. (and i'm not naive to know this is not the case always.)

Whilst I will never know how it makes someone of color feel, I know how it has made me feel as a person. A human being. Then and now.

Some white people experience hardship because of class , gender presentation and or sexuality not because of their race.

Whiteness is a legal definition created within the last two centuries for legal-political reasons.

It is an important denotation of political power and social access which as you know is tied to economic opportunity.

And because all of the above....any form of discrimination let's say a queer white trans person from a lower socioeconomic class may feel won't be the same as a cis black person..by very definition.

Not that i'm trying to say what's worst ..I'm saying you can not posit an equivalence.

That's why the concept Intersectionality ( coined by Kimberlè Crenshaw) is so important when we talk about the experience of historically disenfranchised groups.

We have different experiences which require different understanding and a tailored approach in addressing issues that affect specific populations.

All populations deserve that.

You can just put it under the umbrella of diversity or even worse what you previously conjectured...the experience of being human.

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As a white person I have experienced the issue with regards to race discrimination around jobs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Economic_Empowerment

And to answer your thoughts. I don't begrudge black empowerment one bit. They deserve to feel empowered.

And yes I'm not immune to the fact that people of colour have had to deal with this shit for years. I don't think this race issue is as bad in European countires not all but some of them at least but this is how I perceive It to be. I would rather a European black person comment on the hardships and injustice they face this side of the pond because I have no experience personally because obviously I'm white.