[September4]

My husband and I adopted our daughter 3 years ago, we are all cc. We have the opportunity to adopt an AA/CC baby girl as long as the birthmom chooses not to parent her. Question? Are we being selfish? We could care less what other people think if they don't like mixed race families. Ignorant comments made to us, will be fluffed off. Black and white is just a color to us. It's not what makes you a person. Our family will be made thru the wonderful gift of adoption, and so our children are not going to look like us, we dont care. We are proud to say that we have adopted our child(ren) We love adoption. Now obviously we don't always introduce our daughter as our adopted daughter, but being that she is CC we don't have too. Questions will be made though introducing our AA/CC baby as our daughter, and i don't want to always say she's adopted either. Our immediate family is CC, however thruout our extended family we have hispanic people, AA people, so race is not an issue for us. However..we live in an all white community. Now who's to say in 5 years what our community will be like, but generally for the past 20 years, its mainly CC. How will this child feel maybe being the only AA girl in the school? How will she feel being adopted AND AA. (Whereas her background might be CC/AA,people will see her as AA) Where we hope to be able to raise our family against racism and such is it possible by adopting this little girl we might cause her more stress and unfair feelings as she grows? It seems all to easy not to adopt her for just those reasons but are hearts are just aching for this little girl. We feel she was lead to us and we should raise her.
Does this make sense? I was hoping for some general feedback.. Any thoughts? Thanks