My wife and I have an adopted daughter. My wife is African-American, I am white, our daughter is also African-American. Almost everyone thinks she is our biological daughter. We live in a highly diverse area where interracial and inter-ethnic couples are common, and where trans-racial adoptions are fairly common, too. Suburbs of DC. We don't have any of the problems this author has in this article.
This author is a conservative evangelical living in Columbia, Tennessee.
Historically, Columbia was the site of significant racial violence against African Americans: three black men were lynched in the early 20th century, and a race riot was conducted against blacks in 1946 that resulted in two deaths and destroyed their business district. Twenty-five black men were charged with attempted murder of four police who were wounded, and were defended by civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP. He gained acquittals for most of the men, even with all-white juries.
So, not a bastion of enlightenment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_Tennessee
The author gets some adoption issues right and some wrong. His level of objectivity in this article is highly variable.
There has been a drastic drop in international adoptions in the past 10 years due to changing political situations in the countries willing to let their orphans be . I think this is more a commentary on their fellow conservatives, because this author is lumping together many unrelated issues. Basically, he lives in a racist area, and is a public white figure with a black child. What did he expect? This is like a kitchen sink of complaints.
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