I find it hard to decide one way or another about this situation. There is GREAT need, and few African-Americans willing to become foster parents, especially to teens. It's not an easy task. My experience with these youth is that if they have been in the system for a while it is difficulty for them to trust and acclimate to living with another. Certainly the best homes for African-American teens would be to placed with two parent(s) who have firm foundation in their lives and able to provide consistent love, discipline and nurturing to them. Unfortunately, we have few of those families in our community. More of our families are single-parent homes and many of those who are married have tons of other issues. Those who are capable of providing often fear bringing strange youth into their homes, or are too caught up in meeting their material needs and desires for themselves and their kids.

Unfortunately, I don't think we have a spirit of altruism in our community because the emphasis is often on self and achieving material gain. That said, there are those who provide homes for youth on a regular basis and do a great job of it. But, the question is whether whites should be able to do it. I think most youth (and I'm speaking of teens) prefer folks who look like them, but if that youth wants to be in a home, I don't think they care what race the folks are. And, the other sad part is we will lose our cultural context if this continues. Black kids will be black in color, but their inner being will reflect their upbringing. All the good we have as people no longer passed from generation to generation.

Still African-Americans owe our young people better. It is the job of the older to store up for the young and yet that doesn't happen with regularity. One of my biggest frustrations when working in a middle-school environment was that the greatest majority of mentors, volunteers, tutors are white. Though many had difficulty relating to black youth (especially the strong-willed young brothers and sisters); they put out some effort with constency. In comparison, African-American young adults came most often to fulfill sorority/fraternity pledge requirements and then dropped out just as fast. Sadly, some even had an attitude as though 'better' than the kids they were serving. Bottom line, if we want greater respect, we need to show we care through giving back with greater regularity to our own.

;-) Cheri

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I can only respond to what a child of God would say, I read the Holy Bible and I do love everybody and I have to: because of my beleifs.  I'm not racist and people may talk and look and live so different from one another, but love is the key.

If anybody wants to raise a child and the child looks and talks different than the parent who wants to adopt them, then it's o.k.  I only feel that the person should raised the kids up obeying what the Holy Bible says you should live, now everybody does not beleive in anybody or my Lord and savior Jesus Christ is not their choice.

I have a 16 year son, and I was a single parent rasing him alone from day one, and I had God and my family to help me in loving him unconditionally, and God supplies all of my needs according to my riches and glorys.

Everybody needs to be loved and as long as the parent isn't gay, or on drugs, or a lesbian or anything unholly than I feel why not let smart, educated, loving people from all walks of the world make somebody else happy and loved.

I live in Los Angeles, Ca. and I was born and raised here.  But my ancestors come from the south part of the United States, such as Pinebluff, Ark. and Texas, Sweetport Louisiana.  Now I see so many unsaved people of the same race as myself.........african american, I'm a child of God, but being called african american is o.k.  Kids know nothing about racism their taught these things to either to love or hate.

Our culture is either wanting to act white, depending who your rasied up around, and the younger generation  really wants  to be white so bad to get a good job, they hate being black and they look down on black like black people is the worse culture around.  Now I   have a son as I've mention and he refuses to affiliate with his own culture, yes he's african american, and he says that our people and mexicans is the last people that he'll associate with, now I pray that he change his ways, and yes he was raised in the chrurch and he was raised up reading the bible also, but he tells me that he's been around his age group and their all about violence and drugs and gangs, and much, much more. 

 I've never seen so many black people who talks like white people and the seem so unhappy, now black history books explain a lot about what we don't want to hear.  And we have the black on black crime, and it's so bad that 20% of our culture is safe to be around.

I live not in fear but to pray daily night and day for my son to not get killed by the evil one which is of all cultures, and the drugs and gangs is just a part of our nations distruction.

Our people hate each other so much, and they hurt each others feelings a lot, and yes I'm mixed with white blood (caucation), and african american, just like a lot of our ancestors was raped and or some of our (black) men and woman wanted to be with other cultures, and that's fine with me.  I date no certain culture, God loves everybody and I look past so much and I get alone with most everybody I meet, and the stuck up ones I pray for their lives to bring them happiness.

But adopting our own culture works out like this....................some of us can't get alone with our own kids and can't wait until their 18 years old to see them out and away from us.  Now we have kids that fight their parents, and smoke drugs and still from their family, and don't go to school.  And most of the parents are on crack or in jail or dead from gang banging, or gay or lesbian and the kids aren't claiming them in the public eyesight.  I pray that our children who need a parent and is parentless has an adult figure in the environment to teach them the reward that they shall get if they grow up to serve God and be patient and never give up on being obediant to the word of God.

Even if the kids don't understand who God is......................I preach the gospal everywhere I go and demonic spirits can't stand me, I wish I could be the one to shelter the lost souls of little kids, and color doesn't matter, kids are kids.  Our kids are mostly drug babies and the word of God is real and people need to wake up and yes be the parents that God made us to be.  Our kids 18 and under are so stressed out because the love of God is needed so bad.  The, and the whole nation is under stress, and the word of God says come to me and I shall give you rest.  The unhoused children that's up for adoption here in this nation of God wil o.k. because the bible tells me so.

I don't see nothing wrong with it, I thinks its good because every child need a home and also to be loved and cared for.I think white people adopt blacks more than black people adopt white children.

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