retsuki03

While it may be racism, it is hardly on the scale of things involved in America's past. Failure to adopt children is not on par with germ warfare with indians or slavery.

I would not even call this racism. I would call it a majority of white families wanting to adopt a white child, asian families an asian child, and black families a black child. I would also venture to say that the majority of families adopting children are probably white.

Also, I think the cause of this is somewhat economical. I think there are a disproportionate number of black children up for adoption than white children in relation to their populations size. That being said, because white children are more rare/scare, they have a higher value and more people want them. Some more research might reveal that black families adopting children choose black children more often than white or asian children. Would that also be racism?

And yet another reason, in general, families adopting children might see potential risks in raising a child of another race. The could be worried about what others could say, about what their child would say when it grows older, they could worry about alienating their child, or their child being teased, or having an identity crisis... There could be any number of reasons born out of fear and not so much racism that lead to this.

That being said, I would argue that in America blacks, whites, asians (and whatever other ethnicity you want to insert) have different cultures which lead to different perceptions by each other. Racism or not, I am sure the disproportionate number of black men in prison probably has an effect on the adoption rate of black boys. Right or wrong, fair or unfair.

Granted, some of the fault probably lies with racism, but I believe the majority of it lies elsewhere.