Start the Collide

To come together with violent, direct impact. To crash together with a violent impact. These are two definitions of what it means to collide. I feel like this describes perfectly what this blog is going to hopefully be about. My hope is that we collide into some major issues facing the whites and blacks relationship in the nation. I want to hear from every side about where we are when it comes to race. It is 2010 and we need to put these issues at the for front of our daily lives and make that next leap to making America a more equal country. I know this is a very heated discussion but I hope that anyone who reads this or comments will respect the opinions of others and comes to each other with love and drive to really change the way things are. We have to change we cannot keep this gap between races alive. We must stand up one by one and realize that it starts with us. We must start taking this into our own hands. We must educate ourselves with the things that are going on in our country when dealing with the white and black cultures. To start the colliding effect we must violently crash into it.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

In the article above there are many accusations presented and even more questions raised.

(all quotes are from Lola Adesiove from the online site Black Voices)


-In regards to Sandra Bullock and other celebrities adopting a black child-
"Why do they want a black baby as opposed to a white one, when there are also white kids who are up for adoption? Are they buying in to the idea that poor black children must be saved by altruistic white people."

I recently posted this article to facebook and I think we are pretty much all in agreeance that it is a good thing to get black children out of the foster system, no matter what the race is of the parents, as long as they love them.

"Black children are overrepresented in the adoption system, making up 32 percent of all children in foster care.They stay longer in the system, tend to experience multiple placements and find it harder to be placed with one permanent family."

Questions that this article raised:
1. "What are, for example, the cultural implications for a black child that is raised by a white family? Do they struggle to find themselves?"

"There is definitely something to be said for the importance of a deep-rooted sense of culture and heritage and growing up around other people who look like you. It can be hard for someone who is not black to really grasp exactly what that means and how important that is for a person's psyche. Even the most culturally aware white person cannot know what it is like to be black, and I doubt whether it is something they could be taught or teach."

"One could also argue that even black children in black families go through some period of figuring out who they are and what their identity is. It is not as if black children in black families do not wrestle with those issues themselves."


2. Does the black community have a roll in keeping the children out of the system?

"And, there is a key point that we are forgetting: Black kids are in foster homes because black parents put them there. If we would prefer not to have black children raised by non-black parents, we should do a better job of keeping them out of the foster care system in the first place. And, if we black people do feel strongly about this, it is incumbent on all of us to ensure that we help people like Sandra Bullock make sure that their child is well adjusted and supported. What do you think??

please respond openly as possible and at the same time being respectful.

let the colliding begin.

-Me



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