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Should Race be a Factor in Adoptions?

The Donald B. Johnson Adoption Institute, a non-profit, has for decades studied concerns that affect transracial adoptions. Their findings underline the issues I dealt with as a child such as feeling uncomfortable in the presence of Black people, lacking a mechanism to recognize and confront racism, and no sense of racial pride and did not wish to be identified as a Black. At the time and place, my German parents offered me Marian Anderson ...