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A white couple told they can not be foster parents of a black child in Tennessee because the biological Black parent requested that only a Black couple be allowed to foster the child
Sunday, February 19th 2012 at 4:36PM
Siebra Muhammad
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Interesting. What do you think?
Monday, February 20th 2012 at 8:30AM
Steve Williams
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Well, all children need the basic necessities of life (food, clothing and shelter), no doubt. If a White family is sensitive about race issues, if they already have meaningful daily interactions with Blacks and other ethnic groups, then maybe it can be appropriate.
However, when someone who has had NO CONNECTION with Blacks wants to take a Black child into a completely White environment, then he or she is going to be raised to be something other that what many
people would suspect him or her to be, based on how he or she looks. I think thats where the problem arises.
Monday, February 20th 2012 at 4:28PM
Siebra Muhammad
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I agree. And it takes time to gain that sensitivity.
Monday, February 20th 2012 at 7:11PM
Steve Williams
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As long as the adoptive people have interacted with people of the same background as the children, I feel people should be allowed to adopt children of other races. This is one way to teach adults about other cultures. If you start teaching the children when they are young, for the most part, what they learn will remain with them.
Thursday, February 23rd 2012 at 11:02AM
Joyce Oglesbee
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Black Health Statistics
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+ African Americans are 70% more likely to get Diabetes than whites.
+ More African Americans are obese than any other ethnic group in the U.S.
+ Infant mortality rates are twice as high for African Americans than for whites.
+ African Americans are more likely to die from Heart Disease than any other ethnic group.
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