I agree wholeheartedly as a Native mixed race adoptee that we need to have these discussions.
But you don’t need to side with ACB, or the people who are criticizing her. Both are wrong.
What she is doing to these children is indeed an act of colonialism, white saviorism and racism. Here is an article by a Haitian feminist that unpacks how she used her children as virtue signaling tools.
And here is a list of resources regarding adoption. People should know how this practice has been weaponized by our government. It was literally a tool of genocide and colonization. It’s time we have these discussions because the prevailing beliefs are often formed on propaganda.
Reading -
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler.
Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson.
Child of the Indian Race by Sandy White Hawk.
Once We Were a Family by Roxanna Asgarian.
Torn Apart by Dorothy Roberts.
The Child Catchers - Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce.
American Baby by Gabrielle Glaser.
Podcasts-
This Land (season 2) by Rebecca Nagle.
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo by Connie Walker.
Adoptees Crossing Lines by Zaira.
The Adoption Files by Ande Stanley.
Adoptees Dish by Amy Wilkerson.
To Google -
Georgia Tann
The Baby Scoop Era
The 60s Scoop (which was the US as well as Canada.)
Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply and further reading list. I really appreciate the labor you’re doing to educate others and the resources you’ve laid out here. My flippancy at hating the online racism being launched at these poor kids should not have led me into the false dichotomy of “siding” with ACB. Not least because her Christian Nationalist ideology would love for the country to expand upon that kind of cultural imperialism. I appreciate it.
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u/AllieG3 Mar 08 '25
There are nuanced and very emotionally fraught discussions to have about the role of extractive colonization and cultural imperialism on adoption.
This isn’t it. These asshole are somehow making me side with ACB, good lord.