"Snickers Bar, Not Dark Chocolate"

I meant to post this last week but I figured I'd save it for a post-Fourth rant.

Here we have an article from CNN discussing the trend of single black women choosing to adopt children versus marrying and having them. If you've ever heard Chris Rock go off on how some relationships just can't work ("you're a black woman, he's a black man"), you'll understand where the basic point of this article is coming from.

The article even confirms Rock's premise:

"We're seeing more and more single African-American women who are not finding men," Caldwell says. "There's a lack of qualified black men to get into relationships with."

But I am stunned that CNN printed some of the other stuff in here and did so with apparent seriousness. Read on and be shocked.

Yet there are some single African-American women who are not emotionally ready to adopt an African-American child who is too dark, some adoption agency officials say.

Fair-skinned or biracial children stand a better chance of being adopted by single black women than darker-skinned children, some adoption officials say.

Not emotionally ready?!? Is that the new code word for "black racist"? Because that is exactly what it sounds like to me.

It gets better/worse. Very next sentence:

"They'll say, 'I want a baby to look like a Snickers bar, not dark chocolate,' " Caldwell, founder of Lifetime Adoption, says about some prospective parents.

Can you imagine the outcry if any white couple uttered such a thing if they were looking to adopt a non-white baby? You'd have demands for their heads on a pike next to very shrill cries of "Racism!" and so on. But when a non-white person makes such an utterance, its simply news and information for the reader. No controversy, no issue, no big deal.

It is a child not a bloody chocolate bar! I'm amazed they didn't also specify whether they wanted nuts under the wrapper or not.

But the sentence that follows this is the hands-down winner:

"I had a family who turned a baby down because it was too dark," she says. "They said the baby wouldn't look good in family photographs."

If any white person looking to adopt said this, there'd be a guillotine on their front lawn the following morning courtesy of Jesse Jackson with Al Sharpton under the black hood looking to take their head off. Complete with news crews and a crowd cheering them on.

"Wouldn't look good in family photographs"?!?

Words escape me.

I am floored that CNN published this. In any other context, this material would be worthy of a standalone hatred screed on Stormfront. And would fit right in among those white supremacists and their varieties of vile hatred.

But it is perfect OK for a black person to say such things and see them as perfectly acceptable. Simply recognizing the realities of the world as it were. These would be the same people, whom I suspect, would launch into a fit of apoplectic fury at the prospect of a non-black couple adopting a black child because such an act would be "denying them their black heritage" or "deprive them of important black cultural roots".

It is no less racism when it comes out of their mouths and it is way past time people started calling them out on it.

The subjects of these excerpts should be ashamed of themselves. It's hard enough to adopt any child and the fact that these people would pick and choose based on the color of an innocent child's skin as the factor that will determine whether that child is worthy of living with them is disgusting.

The only saving grace is that by their ignorance and xenophobia, those children will wind up in better, more loving and tolerant homes. But I despair for what the poor unfortunate child raised by such narrow-minded, intolerant, race-baiting dumbass individuals will be taught. In my opinion it would be no different than handing a baby over to a openly practicing, preaching member of the KKK.

Now I understand why so many children are in need of foster homes if this is the prevailing attitude among the available population of potential black foster or adoptive homes. "Too black, send'em back!". And pillory me for even suggesting that non-black couples are fine for fostering or adopting black children.

Weren't we supposedly to be over all this now that The One has ascended?

Just goes to prove that racism knows no bounds. Even down to the hatred of children who don't know any better. This affirms what my mother taught me is that racism is a learned behavior and it all starts with the parents.

Glad to see another generation of parents will be perpetuating it. All they need is a nice lawn and a burning cross to complement the landscaping. Except they'd be the one's putting them up and lighting the match.