Race gone overboardWhat would be your reaction if you read this? Investigators found that black children younger than 2 waited an average of 223 days to be adopted, while white children averaged a 145-day wait.Any reasonable person would assume that what happened was that the state was discriminating against the black babies because the people working in the agency cared more about white babies getting adopted, right? Wrong. Here's what actually happened: The state and Hamilton County have been fined $1.8 million by a federal agency for blocking white families from adopting black children between 1995 and 2000.And apparently, this is a widespread practice. This is something that is undoubtedly bad for the black children involved. And yet this practice continues because its proponents think that "black children belong to black parents" and that "the most sensitive, loving, and skilled white parent could not avoid doing irreparable harm to an African American child". It's racial seperatism like we had in our past history, and once again it's a detriment to blacks. (Via Eugene Volokh) |
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