Lawyer links adoption to slavery

[Dian]

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Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

1995

RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTION

Jacinda T. Townsend *

[* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.]

The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economic
interests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sons
and daughters who were traded away from their parents would later
struggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and their
countries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in the
transient slave communities were continually fragmented as children
and their caretakers were merchanted to different plantations
according to the whims of White slavemasters.[1]

Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Black
community continues to lose its children. At present, government
sponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmful
consequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children from
their communities through transracial adoption with Whites who are
unable to secure children of their own race.[4]

[Robin Harritt]

Lawyer links adoption to slavery

Dian wrote:

http://www.puaf.umd.edu/courses/puaf...n-Townsend.htmDuke Journal of Gender Law & Policy1995RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTIONJacinda T. Townsend *[* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.] The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economicinterests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sonsand daughters who were traded away from their parents would laterstruggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and theircountries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in thetransient slave communities were continually fragmented as childrenand their caretakers were merchanted to different plantationsaccording to the whims of White slavemasters.[1]Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Blackcommunity continues to lose its children. At present, governmentsponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmfulconsequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children fromtheir communities through transracial adoption with Whites who areunable to secure children of their own race.[4]

So what would you and Jacinda suggest as an alternative to trans-racial
adoption for these children, given the difficulty in finding suitable
adoptive parents within their own ethnic communities?



Robin

[J.]

Lawyer links adoption to slavery

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Dian wrote:

http://www.puaf.umd.edu/courses/puaf...n-Townsend.htmDuke Journal of Gender Law & Policy1995RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTIONJacinda T. Townsend *[* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.] The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economicinterests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sonsand daughters who were traded away from their parents would laterstruggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and theircountries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in thetransient slave communities were continually fragmented as childrenand their caretakers were merchanted to different plantationsaccording to the whims of White slavemasters.[1]Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Blackcommunity continues to lose its children. At present, governmentsponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmfulconsequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children fromtheir communities through transracial adoption with Whites who areunable to secure children of their own race.[4]

So what would you and Jacinda suggest as an alternative to trans-racialadoption for these children, given the difficulty in finding suitableadoptive parents within their own ethnic communities?Robin

Ancestral ressurection?


Camps?


Government Schools?

Guardians, of course!

J.




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http://www.puaf.umd.edu/courses/puaf...n-Townsend.htm Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1995 RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTION Jacinda T. Townsend * [* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.] The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economic interests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sons and daughters who were traded away from their parents would later struggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and their countries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in the transient slave communities were continually fragmented as children and their caretakers were merchanted to different plantations according to the whims of White slavemasters.[1] Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Black community continues to lose its children. At present, government sponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmful consequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children from their communities through transracial adoption with Whites who are unable to secure children of their own race.[4]

Oh, a lawyer says so, it must be true! Where do I sign the petition?

[Robin Harritt]

Lawyer links adoption to slavery

J. wrote:

Dian wrote:

http://www.puaf.umd.edu/courses/puaf...n-Townsend.htmDuke Journal of Gender Law & Policy1995RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTIONJacinda T. Townsend *[* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.]The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economicinterests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sonsand daughters who were traded away from their parents would laterstruggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and theircountries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in thetransient slave communities were continually fragmented as childrenand their caretakers were merchanted to different plantationsaccording to the whims of White slavemasters.[1]Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Blackcommunity continues to lose its children. At present, governmentsponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmfulconsequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children fromtheir communities through transracial adoption with Whites who areunable to secure children of their own race.[4]

So what would you and Jacinda suggest as an alternative to trans-racialadoption for these children, given the difficulty in finding suitableadoptive parents within their own ethnic communities?RobinAncestral ressurection?Camps?Government Schools?Guardians, of course!J.

What guardians? The 'Poor law guardians', perhaps? Under Section 7 of
the *******y Laws Amendment Act 1872 which allowed payments already
ordered on application of a mother to be diverted to the Parish or Union
if the child became chargeable, and section 5 of the *******y Laws
Amendment Act 1873 which allowed the Poor law guardians to apply to
justices for an order in their favour in respect of a child who had
become chargeable. That is, stick them in the Workhouse. Given Di's
usual view that any law that applies in any one place must also apply in
every other place and at other times, it should an acceptable solution
for all children regardless of the shade of their skin or their cultural
heritage. That is after all one of the things that the Adoption of
Children 1926 was is intended alleviate in England & Wales. If adoption
is so terrible surely we must go back to what we had before.



Robin

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Lawyer links adoption to slavery


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http://www.puaf.umd.edu/courses/puaf...n-Townsend.htm Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1995 RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTION Jacinda T. Townsend * [* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.] The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economic interests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sons and daughters who were traded away from their parents would later struggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and their countries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in the transient slave communities were continually fragmented as children and their caretakers were merchanted to different plantations according to the whims of White slavemasters.[1] Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Black community continues to lose its children. At present, government sponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmful consequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children from their communities through transracial adoption with Whites who are unable to secure children of their own race.[4]

Oh, a lawyer says so, it must be true! Where do I sign the petition?

I represent that remark

Doug Thomas

[Ron Morgan]

Lawyer links adoption to slavery

I'm not saying I agree with his premise, but what he does say is
specific to the adoption of African-American children by white parents,
not to adoption per se.

Ron

Dian wrote:

http://www.puaf.umd.edu/courses/puaf...n-Townsend.htmDuke Journal of Gender Law & Policy1995RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTIONJacinda T. Townsend *[* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.] The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economicinterests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sonsand daughters who were traded away from their parents would laterstruggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and theircountries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in thetransient slave communities were continually fragmented as childrenand their caretakers were merchanted to different plantationsaccording to the whims of White slavemasters.[1]Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Blackcommunity continues to lose its children. At present, governmentsponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmfulconsequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children fromtheir communities through transracial adoption with Whites who areunable to secure children of their own race.[4]

[J.]

Lawyer links adoption to slavery

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So what would you and Jacinda suggest as an alternative to trans-racialadoption for these children, given the difficulty in finding suitableadoptive parents within their own ethnic communities?Robin

A black family or no family at all!P2P

I'd like someone who really believes in that approach to define "black family"
for me. Or black, for that matter. Is it a matter of self-definition? Are
the dark skinned African immigrants in my community "black"?

The other night as we were going over my son's homework, he noticed a book I
had pulled off the shelf, "Raising Black Children" Comer, James. P. 1975, 1992.
He wondered who was reading it and why. "I'm not black," he said. Not in his
own eyes; he identifies himself as Honduran. But many see him as black, in
whatever sense the word has for them.

He could as easily identify himself as bi-racial or possibly tri-racial, if he
has the African ancestry so many see in him.

As I watch his tastes in clothing, music and other bits and pieces of this
culture evolve, I can't help buy wonder how he will identify himself by the
time he's a man.

J.






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