So it has been with the harsh and dispiriting conversation surrounding the fact that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a white woman, adopted two Black children from Haiti. Barrett, sadly, has only furthered this dynamic, distinguishing between her biological and adopted children in a way that made me — also a parent through both birth and adoption, and also a white mother to two Black children — gasp. But even if having Black children did somehow magically remove every shred of racism from Barrett’s (or anyone’s) heart, who cares? That paperwork was for adoption from foster care, but, in the end, we adopted two children from Ethiopia. White parents who adopt Black children are not uniquely evil nor uniquely good.

Source: Ethiopian News October 24, 2020 08:26 UTC