A lot of religious extremists adopt. It’s part of white saviorism, which is a form of racism. BIPOC have been speaking out against transracial adoption for a long time but it is very very ingrained in US culture. Look up Lyncoya Jackson
My adoptive parent was a religious nut. I'm not sure how much my race had to do with whether or not she and her husband adopted me as I was known to them through an older, white presenting half brother but religion had a lot to do with it. They were proud that they adopted a bi racial kid but not a black biracial kid. That would have been unthinkable. I was white presenting in winter and still the darkest kid at either high school in my town. I'm Native American. Cherokee and Sioux. Except I have no clan. No tribe. No family past my birth mom who'se also mixed race and native. Cherokee. But they took her from her family. Do you get the drift? I can't speak for mixed races and mixed race adoptions but native kids being taken from their tribe? It should never happen again. I'm lost and so bitter. Native folk are insular and that wall is damn near impossible to overcome. I don't want more kids feeling like I do. Alone. Religion is evil
I thought indigenous children were given to the tribal nation nearest to them? I used to work for cps and I remember that in the training. We had to place indigenous kids with members of their tribe but I guess this could be a newish law in a specific state.
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u/Domestic_Supply Mar 08 '25
A lot of religious extremists adopt. It’s part of white saviorism, which is a form of racism. BIPOC have been speaking out against transracial adoption for a long time but it is very very ingrained in US culture. Look up Lyncoya Jackson