[ SECRET POST #2370 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2370 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How much contact should adopted PoC children have with the culture of their birth?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really know enough to have a bone in this fight, but as far as I can tell the court case wasn't exactly pitting daddy dearest's parental rights against the adopted parents. It was pitting the entire Cherokee Nation's adoption rights against the rights of the (white) adopted parents. Basically, First Nations/Aboriginal/Native American etc. people used to get their kids taken away and raised by white people a lot, which helped speed up the destruction of a lot of native cultures. So in the US, a law was passed where, if a kid with Native ancestry was put up for adoption, the tribe the kid had blood ties to had first dibs on adopting. So even though the bio-dad in this particular case seemed, to me, to be not such a great person, the case going the way it did was still kind of a fuck-you to that law--even if the bio-dad didn't get custody, some other Cherokee descended person should have, because that's what the law was for. It's not about white people, or any people who adopt kids from a place/culture they don't share, so much as it is a chance to slow the destruction of a culture by ensuring that more people grow up knowing it from the inside.

Re: How much contact should adopted PoC children have with the culture of their birth?

[(Anonymous)]

The girl was 1/256th Cherokee, meaning that she was 255/256th something else. What if her 255 gereat-great...-greatparents wanted her to be raised in their culture too?

Re: How much contact should adopted PoC children have with the culture of their birth?

[(Anonymous)]

Good point. Basic math for the win!