Transracial Adoption: ColorsNW February Story

Episode 1 of the Colors NW Video Podcast deals with the subject of Transracial Adoptions. Meet Michelle Bagshaw, Sarah Kim Randolph and Jill Dziko as you watch this short documentary. Then read more about Transracial Adoption in the February 2007 issue of Colors NW Magazine.

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People & Blogs

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• adoption
• transracial
• multiracial
• diversity
• seattle
• northwest

[isisqueenafrika]

This white woman is crying and asking how can they not love her son. She should talk to Black mothers and fathers accross America. This society still very racist and when you are white you don't have to know this fact!

[420itsme]

I asked my father why he never had any black friends. He says he did at work. I reply, why haven't I ever seen them. He just stayed quiet and ate his food.

[Kirke182]

@LeeMIlby I never said they were.

[LeeMIlby]

@420itsme

He probably felt awkward cause he knows that the core of what you were asking about is something he can never provide just because of his race. It's an awful feeling for a parent to be helpless in supporting their child. You should both talk openly about this because it would be a shame if you both let the question separate your bond.

[LeeMIlby]

@TruthHurtzAllDaTime

Adopting a child is not a matter of charity. That's not what love is about.

[LeeMIlby]

@Kirke182

Race and Culture are not the same thing.

[iamablackmother]

The only opinions that really matter are those of adults who were transracially adopted as infants or children. Seek out these people.

[CheezInspector]

@Kirke182, how do you know Obama fits in with his family? How do you know every transracial adoptee doesn't fit in with anybody (patently false)? ... Gosh. And who decides what an "unfair burden" is?

I think a kid of any color who is w/out a home can be in pain. Finding a decent transracial home can alleviate that. And yes, (IMO) it's appropriate to say to a child "Sorry but everybody has to feel pain. How are you going to respond to it?" when that child is going through a life challenge.

[Kirke182]

@CheezInspector Obama fits in with his family. Adoptees of transracial adoptions don't fit in with anybody. It is an unfair burden to put on them. What does that have to do with everybody must feel pain in their lives? Yeah, so what? Is that what you tell a child you adopted who is of a different race when he wants to know why he isn't like the rest of the family and other kids make fun of him for it? "Sorry but everybody has to feel pain." Jeesh.

[CheezInspector]

@Kirke182, it's not a realistic assumption that everyone "must fit in". In life, we all have personal issues w/fitting in at times. We all have "crosses" to bear. Life isn't supposed to be pain free and if everyone thought that no child should have challenges or pain, adoption agencies in general would be more full than they already are. It's too bad you fail to grasp the analogy I made between Obama's lack of "fitting in" and the adopted person seeming at times to "not fitting in" too.

[Kirke182]

@CheezInspector Yes, i assume a child must "fit" in. That's very important to children to fit in. And don't give me this garbage that Obama might as well have been adopted. He was raised by his natural mother which is how it should be. People like you is why I am against transracial adoption. Somebody who is half-white may as well have been adopted--boy, that's brilliant.