people of color. i have bi-racial children. they don t self-identify black or white. i was going to ask you. children can be cruel. when you are a child, people in school, make fun of you, call you names, call you an oreo cookie. once you become an adult you think thank goodness someone saved me. my question is i see you cringing, do you not believe that is so? yeah. it is ms. rollins. i guess what i m responding to is the notion that adoption is color blind. i think that is one of the things that afad tries to support families when they are adopting. race really does matter. it matters with the youth i m working with now. i hear constant storying when they are living in situations where they are isolated from the black community and they are adopted to places like kansas or iowa. a lot of the places where the
children can be cruel. so when you re a child, when you re in school, people make fun of you, you don t look like your mom and dad or they may call you names, call you an oreo cookie or whatever it is. once you become an adult you think thank goodness someone saved me. so my question is then and i see you sort of cringing there, miss marie. but do you not believe that s so? yeah. it s miss rollins. but i guess what i m responding to is the notion that adoption is colorblind. and i think that is one of the things that afad talks back to and tries to support families when they are adopting. race really does matter. it matters with the youth i m working with now even i hear constant stories of when they re living in situations where they re isolated from the black community and they re, you know, adopted to places like kansas or iowa, a lot of the places where the haitian adoptees are going, that they are called names in school
so what is wrong with mixed race or transracial adoption? what s wrong with it? we spoke with wendy walsh, a former tv journalist and a psychologist, and lisa marie rollins, a transracial adoption expert. i started by asking them to explain the case against mixed race adoption. one of them is definitely whether or not white families have the education and are capable of assisting black children in coping with racism. but the other thing really is also something larger that has to do with the preservation of black families. and the circumstances that actually allow children to be put up for adoption. and i think that a lot of people are angry the reason why you re seeing some of this anger around it is because i think there are actually african-american families that are available but the social welfare system isn t really set up for them to adopt black children or kinship, if there are aunts or uncles or extended family members who are available, there s not financial resources for
triggering heated discussion. actor will ferrell has a new gig. how did he suddenly become a minor leaguer? good evening, everyone. tonight in the gulf of mexico oil keeps pouring out of a hole a mile below the surface of the water. an attempt to stop it failed today. that large steel box fell victim to high pressure and frigid temperatures. bp said it wasn t giving up on the dome but admitted the problem was bigger than they expected. i wouldn t say it s failed yet. what i would say is what we attempted to do last night didn t work because these hydrates plugged up the top of the dome. what we are currently doing is seeing is there a way to overcome this problem. we did anticipate hydrates being a problem, but not this significant. david mattingly joins us live. david, what is he talking about. what are hydrates and what went wrong? reporter: these hydrates are crystals, sort of like ice christmas tals, when gas under pressure and the cold water mix together. they crea
discussion. you ll hear it. and actor will ferrell has a new gig. how did he suddenly become a minor leaguer? good evening, everyone. tonight in the gulf of mexico oil keeps pouring out of a hole a mile below the surface of the water. an attempt to stop it failed today. that large steel box fell victim to high pressure and frigid temperatures. bp said it wasn t giving up on the dome but admitted the problem was bigger than they expected. i wouldn t say it s failed yet. what i would say is what we attempted to do last night didn t work because these hydrates plugged up the top of the dome. what we re currently doing and expect it will take the next 48 hours or so, is seeing is there a way to overcome this problem? we did anticipate hydrates being a problem, but not this significant. david mattingly joins us live from venice, louisiana. david, what is he talking about. what are hydrates and exactly what went wrong? reporter: these hydrates are crystals, sort of like i