African-American Social Workers Promote Racism

 

By

 

Sherman N. Miller

 5/4/1991

     U.S. Senator William Roth's (R-Delaware) recent pilgrimage to East Europe left him hell-bent on changing the laws to afford U.S. citizens the opportunity to adopt 3000 Eastern European babies.  His efforts fulfill the dreams of many Caucasian families hoping and praying for a child.  Yet they also highlight a pervasive paranoia over the African-American community's amalgamation into Mainstream America.

 

     Before 1964, the African-American community demanded a color blind society.  African-American leaders billed a color blind United States of America as a utopian world.  But today African-Americans shun the idea of racial amalgamation because of the fear of losing their black heritage.

 

     This black heritage paranoia now places African-Americans in the untenable position of symbolically saying that racial integration is a secondary goal.  It slams the door on White America at the coming of the epoch, "Racial Equality in America."

 

     African-American social workers are a leading catalyst in kindling this black heritage paranoia.  They deem it unconscionable for Caucasians to adopt or be foster parents for black children.  Obviously, these social workers never comprehended  that racial integration takes place in the minds and hearts of mankind. 

 

     Today, White Americans are starting to view African-American children with love versus yesterday's chattel only to be exploited.  Caucasians are saying, "You are our sons and daughters; please come and share our home."

 

     A Delaware Caucasian foster parent argues that children only want to be loved and they do not care who gives it.  This chap has provided foster care for three black children during his tenure of working with the state of Delaware. 

 

     On the other hand, a perplexing issue facing the African-American community becomes, "Is basking in economic deprivation loaded with ethnic culture better off than delighting in Mainstream American love and affluence?"

 

     Posing the above dichotomy to African-Americans in Charlotte, NC and Wilmington, DE, I discovered that people opted to see that children receive a loving home first.  Although people felt an African-American home was the ideal environment, no one expected African-American families to adopt all the available children.  People only asked that Caucasian families teach their children about black heritage so that they would not undergo cultural shock in the Economic Mainstream.

 

     If we take a holistic look at the issue of adoption and foster parents, we find some absolute silliness.  An African-American professional recounted his trepidation when he and his wife were turned down for adoption because they were too old.  At the time, he was in his late forties. 

 

     Did the child this African-America family seek remain in a drug-laden neighborhood where it worries daily about being killed from a stray bullet?  Is this child being loved today? 

 

     Perhaps the symbolic message in the African-American social workers' stance against interracial adoption comes from their de facto support for Adolph Hitler's Germanization model.  Hitler took German-looking children from their natural parents from across Europe and placed them with German families for a culturing process.  Thus, African-American social workers' stance says they support neo-Nazis having first preference to WASP babies where these Caucasian children will get unadulterated white culture.

 

         

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