[musemoon]

I wholeheartedly disagree with article with every fiber of my being and actually think it is a huge step backwards in healing race issues in America. I wonder what the agenda is of the groups involved?????

I agree that transracial parents should incorporate their child's heritage into their family, ie. become a part of the black community, celebrate heritage, get knowlegable about skin and hair....but training??? What kind of training would it be exactly???? Will it be training that solidifies the divide between whites and blacks??? Hmmm??? What about transracial marriages? Or my black "sister" who had a "white" baby? Don't you think that children are better served by having more diverisity in the world than less? Sorry but this just feels like "stay on your own side of the fence" to me. I agree that a parent needs to celebrate all that their child is, meaning really celebrate hair, skin and heritage, but seriously not adopt because of skin color....feels really 1960's to me.

My daughter will be raised to love her skin and hair and her heritage (she already does and at 2 is one of the most popular kids in school).

She is being raised as I was raised, to be proud of herself and all that she is capable of becoming. I will tell her that life comes with many joys and many dissappointments and will prepare her to expect both. This article makes me want to rush out and adopt my second kiddo (which is happening soon anyway) before something wonky happens in foster care.

Right now my agency can't get families to adopt transracial kiddos, how is this article gonna help them??? Huh? This is just so sad :-( and feels a lot like more racism to me.

Yes someone will say something awful to my child one day, but I would much rather my child be able to tell them to take a hike and feel great about herself than to say...."oh yeah, you said that cause I'm black right?"