do you personally think that white people shouldn't adopt children of color? like, i guess do you think it does more harm than good for the kids? if you don't wanna answer, you obviously have no obligations, thank you for your time
I’ve answered this question before and it really comes down to how willing the white parents are to set aside their white privilege, get educated and adopt for the right reasons.
As I’ve said before, majority of children up for adoption are children of color so regardless of the color of family adopting you are probably going to adopt a child of color, also if white families never adopted pocs many of us would still be in the system.
However, if you are adopting because you think it’s “cute to adopt a black baby” or because you feel sorry for us and want to help, please fuck off and never adopt anyone ever. We are not white people’s charity case.
If you can set aside your dominant white culture privilege mindset and realize that this is not going to be a walk in the park, it is going to be hard, your child is going to experience racism and discrimination every day of their lives whether they tell you about it or not, and you need to know how to help them, even if that means you shut the fuck up and listen to them, need to know how to help them connect with their culture, need to know how to not erase their identity, then yes i think it is fine for white families to transracially adopt.
