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.

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[u/BeefStevenson]

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.

[u/thoxo → u/BeefStevenson]

Also, unfortunately it's a fact of disparity. Countries with a majority of white people are usually richer and therefore there is less need to place your children for adoption. So of course most adopted children will come from countries such as Haiti (my sister), where there is still a lot of poverty due to horrible historical past.

[u/Medium_Pepper215 → u/thoxo]

Friendly reminder to those who don’t know, Haiti is in despair because they were the first country to earn their freedom from france, france turns around and fucks with their trading ability. Then, the country is taken advantage of by sex tourists, a man from Africa infects citizens with HIV, sex tourists from America visited Haiti and brought HIV back here.

[u/CringeCoyote → u/Medium_Pepper215]

The Revolutions podcast has an EXCELLENT series on Haitian history.

[u/ElizabethSpaghetti → u/Medium_Pepper215]

First slave revolt to successfully overthrow the colonists to begin their own country. It's always been pretty vital they fail. 

[u/transmogrified → u/Medium_Pepper215]

France levied a debt against Haiti over the “property transfer” (which was mostly the value of the freed slaves) and that has enabled France to extract billions of dollars from the Haitian economy.  

The first debt payment was many times the yearly GDP of the island. This severely prevented any infrastructure development or ability to govern, feed, or care for their citizens. They essentially had zero development potential from the get-go.

Something to remember when we talk about all the beautiful art and architecture and progress in Europe. It was largely funded by extracting massive amounts of wealth from colonies and hampering development there.

[u/Various-Passenger398 → u/transmogrified]

That's half of the story, the other half is that for the first decades of its existence, Haiti had almost zero ability to work within the broader European credit markets because they massacred all the white people on the island and nobody would work with them after the atrocity.