Been talking to an adopted Guatemalan diaspora and he’s terrified of ICE atm but his white ass parents aren’t doing anything to prep for them. He’ll tell them his concerns and they’ll assure him they only capture criminals and that he’s not an illegal so he’ll be fine. They aren’t taking it seriously at all.
Hot take but interracial adoption should not happen for most people doing it. They’re completely unprepared for discussions on race and how it effects their adopted children that they treat like exotic pets.
It’s not just adopted kids us mixed race kids are getting this shit from our blood relatives who are white, who also like to treat us like exotic pets. They seem to think ICE cares about where you were born or legal status. Now that they shot a white woman, they’re bending over backwards to try and give any explanation that isn’t racist country does racist things.
“They aren’t trained properly!”
“He really did fear for his life!”
“Maybe they weren’t real ICE agents?”
“They get too much adrenaline going and are under a lot of stress!”
“Some of them are probably Trump supporters!”
That line from Raging Grace lives rent-free in my head. “He doesn’t want to love us. He wants to own us.”
Should not be a hot take, anybody adopting a child of another race/ethnicity should be well known in their culture and issues they may face but people just see it “oh so you want them to stay orphans” or some shit even tho that’s a whole nother sentence.
hope you all have a good first week of december
Been talking to an adopted Guatemalan diaspora and he’s terrified of ICE atm but his white ass parents aren’t doing anything to prep for them. He’ll tell them his concerns and they’ll assure him they only capture criminals and that he’s not an illegal so he’ll be fine. They aren’t taking it seriously at all.
Hot take but interracial adoption should not happen for most people doing it. They’re completely unprepared for discussions on race and how it effects their adopted children that they treat like exotic pets.
It’s not just adopted kids us mixed race kids are getting this shit from our blood relatives who are white, who also like to treat us like exotic pets. They seem to think ICE cares about where you were born or legal status. Now that they shot a white woman, they’re bending over backwards to try and give any explanation that isn’t racist country does racist things.
“They aren’t trained properly!”
“He really did fear for his life!”
“Maybe they weren’t real ICE agents?”
“They get too much adrenaline going and are under a lot of stress!”
“Some of them are probably Trump supporters!”
That line from Raging Grace lives rent-free in my head. “He doesn’t want to love us. He wants to own us.”
Should not be a hot take, anybody adopting a child of another race/ethnicity should be well known in their culture and issues they may face but people just see it “oh so you want them to stay orphans” or some shit even tho that’s a whole nother sentence.
Honestly, I agree with your hot take, and it also extends to why I personally no longer date out.
There seems to be a tendency for people to overestimate just how well they can handle the additional labor inherent to an interracial relationship.