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I am very discouraged today. We have been trying to adopt for quite some time and have received much support from our community. We are strong supporters of the protection of human rights of all parties during the adoption process and to see a Christian espousing such awful views and to candidly admit that the impetus for adoption is to alleviate the financial burden of remodeling their home troubles me. I feel those of us who search daily for guidance may be unjustly viewed as having these values and can only hope that those agencies we are working with--domestic and international--will be open minded enough to accept us as our Lord has...with open hearts willing to consider us on our merits and believing we are capable of unconditional love despite the tribulations we face from within our own flock.
I viewed this post on my Facebook adoption page:
No wonder our country is in trouble when people like this exist--giving a black baby dressed as a slave to their white child--they should be ashamed of themselves. I'm making a donation to the NAACP right now. And she puts it in the public domain! Stop spreading hatred. Please. [url=http://www.clementcrew.com/]Clement Crew[/url]
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Dear adoptedactivist,
I am sorry to hear about the disturbing things you have read regarding adoption that have been posted. The challenges and struggles inherent in the social network is that the world if full of persons with varying opinions, agendas and dysfunctions. I have been involved in volunteer work in adoption, being a local and online facilitator. I have taken the stance that I need to promote balanced adoption education and sensitivity. But I know in this free country and internet- that all kinds of responses, some very negative and hurtful. Often the persons who post those intense and shocking posts are often persons who have been hurt by life, relationships and in this case, possibly adoption. I would chose to use your energy to pray for those persons and keep your focus. May God give you peace.
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That post is certainly distressing, but I'm not sure you should believe it. The way it is written is suspicious, how exactly do you dress a baby as a slave? The implication is disturbing but how could it really be done? And, if the people were really that racist, would they want to have a black child as their legal son/daughter?
Without a doubt, racism is still alive and strong in many forms around us. The strongest I ever witnessed was a woman in a foster care training class who swore that allowing a white family to adopt a black child was "genocide." She got very emotional, and accused the workers of just "wanting to destroy our culture and brainwash our children." She then stormed out of the class and never came back.
The reason I bring up that story is that I could see her making up the "dressed like a slave" story in order to make her case that inter-racial adoption is wrong. That may be an unfair assessment of her, but her anger and unwillingness to actually discuss the issue made her seem completely irrational.
Or, that story could just be like so many on the internet, a complete fabrication just to see if you can offend someone.