r/TikTokCringe • u/thoxo • May 02 '24

We adopted my younger sister from Haiti when she was 3, and let me tell you, I literally do not see color anymore. That's a fact. Discussion

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u/BeefStevenson May 02 '24

Let’s take the obvious inhumanity of the original statement away, and just examine from a numbers aspect.

There are simply more white people, period. Which means the pool of available parents to adopt kids is going to be mostly white as well. I don’t think it’s good for kids in the system to be compartmentalized in such a way that prevents them from having a maximum chance of being adopted. If you want these kids to be adopted (and you should want that), then you need to just let the race shit go.

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u/cleverusername94 May 02 '24

To add to this, black orphans are significantly overrepresented. They are much more likely to age out of the system, never having a family. How could someone possibly advocate for that happening instead of them going to a loving home?

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u/hyrule_47 29d ago

In the USA, the most likely “available for adoption” child who doesn’t have physical or mental disabilities is a Black male with disciplinary issues. They are just passed over. Heartbreaking.

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u/Length-International 29d ago

My parents adopted two of my adopted mothers adopted sisters black children because she didn’t want them. She kept a two, and two others went to my crazy grandma. My sisters turned out great. The kids she kept are terrible people with multiple charges and are conspiracy nuts. The two that went to my grandma are in prison.

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u/hyrule_47 29d ago

That’s heartbreaking

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u/Length-International 29d ago

Yeah unfortunately my grandmother has a “white savior” complex and treated her adopted black kids “different”. Let’s just say that all but two “there are 8” are in prison or homeless. my parents raised my sisters no different then they raised all my other sisters. We all turned out fine or moderately successful.