Adopting new attitudes with a MultiCultClassics Monologue…
• The New York Times published a story on the increase of transracial adoptions in the United States. “It is a significant increase,” said a sociologist at American University. “It is getting easier, bureaucratically and socially. With so many people going overseas, people are also increasingly saying, Wait a minute, there are children here who need to be adopted, too.” Click on the essay title above to read it all.
• Immigrant workers from Peru, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic filed a lawsuit against a prominent hotelier in New Orleans, claiming they were exploited and lied to regarding pay. Decatur Hotels LLC allegedly promised high wages and steady jobs, but delivered low loot and lousy hours. One worker claimed his last paycheck was for $18, which is essentially the price for a Snickers bar from the hotel minibar.
• In Evansville, Indiana, the police force are trying to figure out why officers mistakenly arrested a white woman on a warrant for a Black man. “We’re looking at how things were done,” said a police official. “This is an accident, and all we want to do is make sure we figure out how it happened so it doesn’t again.” Next time, do a better job of racial profiling.
i've always sensed an underlying racist current beneath the act of going to a foreign country to adopt an infant or child ...who still obviously did not look as if they came from you, BUT that was somehow okay, while children of a darker hue spent an entire lifetime in fostercare. No doubt a large majority of these transracial adoptions are done by same-sex couples. Now that's having true 'family values'.
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