My caseworker could be a lot worse
I have to stop browsing tonight, because I keep reading things that make me angry... like this.
I have to stop browsing tonight, because I keep reading things that make me angry... like this.
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"Rising to the defense of their country, by the thousands they came - these young Japanese American soldiers from Hawaii, the states, America's concentration camps - to fight in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. Looked upon with suspicion, set apart and deprived of their constitutional rights, they nevertheless remained steadfast and served with indomitable spirit and uncommon valor, for theirs was a fight to prove loyalty. This legacy will serve as a sobering reminder that never again shall any group be denied liberty and the rights of citizenship." - Go For Broke Monument, Los Angeles, CaliforniaOther Colors: "The first anti-miscegenation law, barring marriage between whites and blacks, was passed in Maryland in 1661. By the nineteenth century, such laws had been enacted in most states. In 1880, California passed a law prohibiting the issuing of licenses for marriage between any white persona and a 'Negro, mulatto, or Mongolian.' ... Aimed at the Chinese, the law was supported by the likes of John F. Miller, who said in 1878, 'Were the Chinese to amalgamate at all with our people... the result of that amalgamation would be…a mongrel of the most detestable that has ever afflicted the earth.' In 1909, California specifically added the Japanese to the list."
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3 comments:
That doesn't surprise me. Our caseworker wanted to move our daughter to a new home because we are white and she is not.
Most people aren't colorblind.
Well, I don't know how it is in GA, but in Texas, the child's worker isn't the one that finds a home, but s/he can try to set a few parameters. There is actually a seperate person in the state office who is handed the file and starts making calls to agencies, and gives them whatever information they feel like. So Huckle's SW wasn't the one telling the other family the wrong information, it was the central placement people telling it to our private agency, who passed that information on to that family, who then got a big shock.
So, there are at least four people that the information goes through. Telephone, anyone?
Levels and levels of absurd, eh? And I haven't even brought up what we were told by his atty ad litem about some of the other prospective adoptive families and why she objected to them. Must save that for after we're free and clear.
I'm looking forward to hearing all the dirt! I've heard Texas is bad before...
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