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I was going through some old photographs and belongings of my grandmother’s in storage and I came across this. She saved the newspaper clipping from her internment.
Reading it made me feel so sad and disgusted I wanted to cry.
White people generally think people of color are happy to go along with the conditions of white supremacism and they will use any sign of coerced cooperation as proof that white racism is correct.
they don’t see us
“Just adopt”
Let’s get this phrase banned. “Just adopt”.
When an infertile couple complains to their friends, often times they hear “just adopt”. This societal knee jerk reaction to infertility increases the demand for adoptable infants creating a demand for a supply that doesn’t exist. Very few women deliver babies they don’t wish to raise. What ends up happening is good mothers are coerced out of their own children to supply the demand created by childless couples.
The next time a friend complains about infertility, how about saying “I’m sorry for your loss”.
Also using “just give it up for adoption” in reference to wanting an abortion is a huge no-no
^^^absolutely!!
😱😱😱😱all these years 😂 now I know for next time when my parents take me out for Chinese takeout!
To (Those) Adoptive Parents:
To (those) adoptive parents: You know who I’m talking about. The ones who tell their kid to be thankful, to never talk about birthparents, the really naive ones who don’t see color, or tell me it’s God’s plan. Does this sound like you? Stop right now. Don’t tell me you don’t see color. You had all the chances to adopt in America, yet you went over to China to get her? Why? What if she wasn’t Chinese? You only see color when it benefits you. “Oh I want an Asian baby!” But when she comes home after school, crying about some racist asshole picking on her, making fun of her eyes, what do you say? “Ignore it.” Ignore it. Ignore this, but don’t ignore the reason why you got her. Speaking of which, God’s plan! Oh, I’m sorry, so it’s God’s Plan, to allow police to drag mothers out of their houses and preform forced abortions?! It’s God’s Plan, to rip families apart and turn children into profits? It’s God’s Plan to allow children to meander in orphanages? So it was God’s Plan to allow the One Child Policy to occur, just so YOU COULD GET WHAT YOU WANTED?I’m a Catholic-almost-turned-theist and let me make this clear: I’m sorry, but there is NO WAY I am worshipping the same God as you, and neither should your daughter.
You are so wrong and selfish to not let your kid speak. How could you sit there, telling your daughter to be thankful? Thankful for what? A parent who is so egotistical that they think they are better than anyone else? You’re such a savior, but then you refuse to let your daughter talk about her feelings. She is ten times stronger than you, yet you feel the need to silence her because you can’t handle it! You are the one who should be in therapy, not her! You’re the one having problems and she’s the lost teenager trying to clean up your mess. But go on, tell her how thankful she is to be God’s Gift to you! No really, I bet she’ll appreciate that! Look at all the adoptees on Confession of an Adoptee! Adoptees go through so much, you have no idea. I’ve been through and heard so many experiences of other adoptees. You know what? If this sounds like you, All I have left to say is this: You’re a bad parent for putting your ego, feelings, or religion ahead of your own child. You are doing so much damage, that if emotional scars were visual, your kid would be covered with tape and put in a cage. That’s exactly what you are doing to them when you cut them off and tell them one of your reasons why they’re wrong for having HUMAN EMOTIONS.
Just stop it! Put your ego down for once and listen to us! - @luckychinesegirl
Well said
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I knew it would be bad when I clicked on the link...
…but I did it anyway.
And I was right. Affording Adoption: for people who can’t afford to buy a child, but who will miraculously be able to afford to care for and raise a child for 18+ years.
According to recent studies, more than 50% of Americans consider Adoption, but say that the financial burden prevents them from actually adopting a child. You might want to adopt, but the financial burden may seem unsurmountable. That’s where we can help! Apply for one of our Adoption Grants and see how we can help you realize your dream of bringing a child into your family!
U.S. Mother Gives Away 5-Year-Old Adopted Child From Haiti For Throwing Temper Tantrum
“Having an instant multicultural family was magical for about two weeks,” says Stacey Conner, a 41-year-old American mom from Spokane, Washington.
After she volunteered in an orphanage in Haiti in 2005, Conner and her husband adopted a 5-year-old Haitian boy named “J.”
Conner claims the boy had attachment disorder and began a strict regimen of attachment parenting of constant surveillance in which a child must often ask for food and water. After two months, J threw a tantrum where he unintentionally hit Conner’s nose with the back of his head.
Conner says the 5-year-old’s strike was accidental, but describes it as “a domestic violence situation. Forget love. Right then, I didn’t even like J.”
J was sent to live with another family in the Midwest. Conner’s biological children adjusted seamlessly to life without their adoptive brother. But other people were puzzled. Neighbors who had seen J riding his bike asked, “Where’s your son?” When Conner answered truthfully, “I’d get the most horrified stares, so I’d keep walking. And I didn’t tell many out-of-town friends or extended family for months.”
Despite such events, the Conners were approved by local social workers to become a foster family, and in October 2013 received a 3-month-old boy as their first placement.
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white people will let their white kids karate chop them in the throat and call them names in public, but a black child becomes naturally upset after you treat the kid like a grown criminal/animal and you just give them away. go it. sounds reasonable.
“i’d get the most horrified stares” gee wonder why
another white sociopath, treating little black children like accessories and discarding them in an instant. May she burn in hell with the rest of her kinfolk
Adopting a child, especially adopting a child from another country/race/culture is a difficult transition. It’s hard for everyone to adjust and serious thought and discussion should go into it before beginning the process. Obviously this woman did not think about the difficulties.
Adoption is not for everyone. Just like motherhood is not for everyone. I really wish people would consider that more often before they screw up an innocent child.
Adoption is forever, and clearly this woman did it on a whim. You shouldn’t adopt a pet unless you intend to keep them for their entire life, much less a child. A woman who sees an accidental smack on the nose from a child as ‘domestic violence’ has no business taking in foster kids from situations that might have involved actual violence and abuse. I’m sure the novelty of that will wear off soon, too.
That being said, the people going on about ‘white people’ should shut the fuck up. This case is not at all typical. In the US, ‘white people’ account for 63% of foster care adoptions, 71% of private adoptions, and 92% of international adoptions (per HHS). Before you bitch about ‘white people’ and their black child ‘accessories’, maybe work on getting your own ethnic community to adopt more of them.
Maybe work on curbing your victim-blaming antiblack racism that kills Black parents for selling cigarettes/walking/breathing/existing in this world and then lets their murderers get away scot free.
Maybe work on unmaking your white supremacist system that decimates Black and indigenous communities, purposefully destroys “primitive” non-Western cultures, and grants you the ‘colourblind’ WHITE privilege you so obviously wallow in.
Oh, and by the way:
You can get away with buying babies around the world as a U.S. citizen: “It’s not a crime.”
Transracial adoption exclusively signifies adoption of children of color to white Westerners
White Western Demand for “Orphans” Outweighs the Supply
Operation Babylift: How Evangelicals Conspired with Anti-Communists to Create the International Adoption Industry
Adoption is a White Privilege
Guatemalan Mothers Drugged and Locked in Closet, Babies Sold to American Couples
International Adoption Industry Grows to Realize Annual Profits in the Multi-BILLIONS
lol I’d forgotten this particular drag of mine… X
Oh and for any lazy entitled bio spawn who might moan about how all those links are to my blog — I use Tumblr as a notepad of sorts considering how many pro media outlets eventually lock content/go offline, so I c&p the relevant content on here so ppl can read for free
In any case, most if not all my links have subsequent linked sources off tumblr, and if not well just plug one or two sentences of those articles into any decent search engine to pull up a cache. I’m not getting paid to educate you on my life experience and I don’t owe you shit if you can’t even be bothered to Google. X
I'm absolutely horrified that it's 2016 and it seems as though adoptive parents still don't "get it."
😤 like seriously? When I scroll through instagram's adoption hashtags, and see quotes like those, it's so hard not to comment against them, especially the accounts dedicated to promoting adoption. I'm not against adoption in general, however, it's how it is promoted that bothers me. We are not cars or SPCA shelter animals to be plastered on Instagram. Adoption is nothing like Hollywood and therefore shouldn't be featured like a picture-perfect movie. Period. We are human beings living real human lives. Treat us as humans, not some exotic dying animal from a developing nation. Thank you for listening. Hashtag: #nationaladoptionmonth #adoptionrocks
Link is in bio!!!!
Seriously, tag those adoption fundraiser posts so I don’t have to see them.
Yes! That would be great for my blood pressure.
#MyAsianAmericanStory
Being ridiculed for wearing traditional clothing made by my mother when we couldn’t afford to buy clothes from stores. Yet now I see so many people wearing the same traditional clothing I used to wear as a child as a fashion statement.
Asian-American 15-year-old Jason turns Jeb Bush’s ignorance into a positive trend
After Bush’s insensitive “anchor baby” comments, Los Angeles teen Jason Fong decided to focus not on criticizing a single candidate, but productively exposing the truth about the Asian-American experience. It snowballed from stories of immigration, to adversity, to incredible perseverance.
#MyAsianAmericanStory
Now that presidential candidates have been actively racist against one of my races, I’m going to add my two cents.
This is me and my mother:
Yea, there’s a lady somewhat photobombing back there and my haircut isn’t the best. But I digress.
For all my non-followers, I am half Asian- half Taiwanese, to be exact. My mom was born and raised in Taiwan and came to the United States as part of a college exchange program. She met my dad at San Jose State University, and the rest is history. Fun fact: they actually had two weddings to accommodate for their respective families being on opposite sides of the planet. So they really have two anniversaries, but we don’t talk about that.
I was born and raised here in Washington state. I grew up speaking English as a first language, as you would expect an American-born child to, with my mom also raising me to speak Mandarin Chinese (although if we wanna get technical about first words and all, Chinese was my first language). She kept me linked to my Taiwanese roots by teaching me the language, visiting her side of the family across the Pacific Ocean, cooking Chinese food, and participating in Chinese/Taiwanese holidays and traditions with me.
I am very proud to be Asian. I’m fortunate that I am bilingual, and I’m always thankful to have this culture.
But I’m still American, and for that matter, so is my mother.
I’ve never lived anywhere but Washington. I cheer for the USA during the Olympics. I love me a good burger and fries. I’m constantly in awe of some of the national parks and monuments we have here, purple mountains majesty and all. Being half-Asian does not take away from my being half-white or an American citizen.
But my mom- I’m starting to appreciate how powerful she is and how much she’s had to fight. She’s a para-educator at an elementary school, working mostly to help kids of all backgrounds who speak little to no English. Sometimes she has to translate for the students and teachers- something that I had to do a few weeks ago and finally grasped the immense difficulty of. She is giving these kids a chance to feel welcome in America, no matter where they’re from. She’s done this for at least 10 years, and she’s had her fair share of teasing and ridicule for her accent. By the way, she’s trilingual and speaks English far better than I speak Chinese. And of course, I would not be who I am without her, racial identity and all.
I’m not sure how many lives she’s impacted, but the leaders of our flawed country should be taking notes from her. She is an embodiment of what our country values, and in some ways, I am too. We are a melting pot, and equality is supposed to be our foundation. So why is Asian American representation so low? Or when it’s there, why is it fulfilling the Asian stereotypes?
I shouldn’t have to argue that my mom and I belong here. No one like me, hapa or Asian American, should have to argue that. No minority should have to fight for that. But here we are, in the 21st century, and not a whole lot has changed.
Fortunately, I’m not going anywhere. Years down the road, I’ll be right here, still fighting.
Very honored to have gotten a chance to participate in a Los Angeles Times video featuring Asian Americans sharing their #myasianamericanstory tweets. Thanks for sharing this with me @jasonyerface1!!!
It's not every day that we see our real stories reflected in the media.
#MyAsianAmericanStory
Brown girl raised in the South. I’m used to being The Token Asian. My dad received a Rotary scholarship for graduate studies in the U.S. My mom was a RN and came over due to nursing opportunities in the states.
When I was in elementary school, kids in my class used to come up to me and push my nose because they said it was flat. I didn’t understand at first why my mom got so upset about it. She told me to NEVER let anyone do that to me again. I get it now.
I am a first generation multilingual Vietnamese-American.
I am southeast Asian. I am American. You can’t tell me to go “back home” and expect me to sail a banana boat across the world to Vietnam because in reality I’d be hopping on the 5 train to Morris Park. I was NOT an anchor baby; my father left behind his newly wed wife (my mother) and gambled everything to come to America and make a better life for his family here. A life without war or poverty or Agent Orange or deformed children. He scraped by until two years later, when he made enough to buy a shitty little apartment off of Fordham Road (in the Bronx) and bring over his wife. I was born a WHOLE YEAR later. My parents never used me as a ticket to a better life. They see me as the PRODUCT of a better life. I am their American Dream. So fuck all you slimy ass politicians who hold us in contempt. You know nothing. #MyAsianAmericanStory
I encourage all the Asian Americans that see this to share their story as well.
I come from planet Mars, and I'm completely lying about being raised in the US as an American. #myasianamericanstory
