TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: racism

  • Commentary: Don’t sanitize Helms’ racist past

    Link

    So CNN correspondent Roland S. Martin has a problem with Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond because they were segregationists. I’m not big fans of them either but let’s not forget the fact that Thurmond renounced his segregationist ways later in life and had an obvious touch of jungle fever.

    But let me pose a question to progressives out there. Why do Helms and Thurmond get labeled as racists but Sen. Robert Byrd of WV gets a pass when he was in the Ku Klux Klan. You don’t join the Klan because you look good in white. Is it because he has a D next to his name? Byrd was a segregationist too yet I haven’t seen any black reporters labeling him as a racist.

  • Do whites need training before parenting black children?

    Link

    NEW YORK (AP) — Several leading child welfare groups Tuesday urged an overhaul of federal laws dealing with transracial adoption, arguing that black children in foster care are ill-served by a “colorblind” approach meant to encourage their adoption by white families.

    Yet another proposed roadblock to making adoption more difficult in this country. It’s legislation like this that makes US citizens adopt from other countries rather than kids from this one.

    A 15-year-old kid gets it absolutely right…

    His youngest son, Eric Jones, 15, said the family’s makeup sometimes complicates his life, but he’s convinced that transracial adoption can succeed.

    “White or black doesn’t matter,” he said. “What counts is whether the parents are ready to take responsibility.”

    Let parents be parents.