Peg Kaplan cites to an almost unbelievable story of how the racialism of an organization in the allegedly helping professions almost ruined one woman’s life. Read it now, before what should be the movie comes out.
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Un-frickin’-real, man. Sad.
It’s not unbelievable, if you know anything about the social services system.
The semi-unbelievable part is that she found the woman, even after she had married, changed her name, and moved around alot. So the unbelievable part is the happy part.
My husband and I tried to adopt about 15 years ago. We could adopt a child of another race from outside of the U.S. But, to adopt a child with a dissimilar race in the country, the child would have had to had profound disabilities (or have been abused and removed from a home.)
Apparently being a good parent – and not the “right” race doesn’t work in our Orwellian world.
The real mother
Via Discriminations and what if?, here’s the LA Times story of a mother-daughter bond that survived racial prejudice and years of separation. It starts with a black girl rejected by both her parents and abused in foster care. In 1975,…
My wife is Caucasian, and I am 1st generation American of Chinese decent. We were foster parents for about 25 years and had to sign non-discrimination agreements and agree to accept any child placed of any race, religion,…, yet some of the social workers we had were some of the most blatant racistis I have met in my life – to the point of taking the position that for a minority child having NO home was better than a home that was not of the “correct” race. This was a predominately Black and Hispanic issue.
According to the article….
>>>”Taylor was white, single and 31.”
Although heart-rendering, I think that some people are viewing this story through the same prism that AAA types usually loathe…and that is through the prism of race.
Adoption is a complicated procedure, further complicated I’m sure by the fact that this woman was SINGLE. But alas, the story needed a villain, and the apparently black social workers were readily available.
–Cobra