tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post7962485630782964479..comments2023-06-21T10:49:13.928-04:00Comments on ...weird crayon in a world sized box of crayolas...: Pet monkey...on being adopted.BLACKkittenROARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999284309980570052noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-21523686052067471582010-08-02T04:04:40.758-04:002010-08-02T04:04:40.758-04:00Oh wow, thank you! Its an honour to be linked and ...Oh wow, thank you! Its an honour to be linked and mentioned!BLACKkittenROARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999284309980570052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-28471938714776777242010-08-02T03:41:38.157-04:002010-08-02T03:41:38.157-04:00Had to link this, hope that's ok, it's suc...Had to link this, hope that's ok, it's such a good post.Vonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17421069895155350144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-51224582267275803712009-12-04T20:35:30.493-05:002009-12-04T20:35:30.493-05:00Its ironic that you left this comment today. An ad...Its ironic that you left this comment today. An adoption post has been festering inside of me for awhile. Your blog is fantastic btw...you write very honestly and from your soul. Actually, everyone that has left comments so far has fantastic blogs. Thank you all for commenting.BLACKkittenROARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999284309980570052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-13991178727098488122009-12-04T16:14:22.695-05:002009-12-04T16:14:22.695-05:00very glad to have found your blog... i'm alway...very glad to have found your blog... i'm always interested to find other black Canadian adoptees. i love Harlow's Monkey. she has written so many amazing things that i've felt but couldn't articulate... keep writing - i'd like to read more about your experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-44006078712853864212009-11-03T23:14:43.185-05:002009-11-03T23:14:43.185-05:00I sometimes wish I had chosen a relative or friend...I sometimes wish I had chosen a relative or friend of the family and asked them to take responsibility for me when I was a child, because it just wasn’t working out in my dysfunctional home.<br /><br />I'm sorry that being adopted and people <i>ideation, emotion and behavior</i> with regard to your being adopted has been so troubling.<br /><br />I can certainly imagine how maddening it is for you when people give credit to your adoptive mother for having adopted a Black girl, as if this courageous and admirable. If it was courageous and admirable, it was not because of who YOU were but rather because of the oppressively <i>color-aroused ideation, emotion and behavior.</i><br /><br />Since this was too long to post as a comment here, I posted it as an article at my own <b><a href="" rel="nofollow">Francis L. Holland Blog.</a></b>Francis Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862777385923656061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417789.post-46343198785867027222009-09-18T11:44:05.300-04:002009-09-18T11:44:05.300-04:00Well-said, sweetheart. If you haven't had a ch...Well-said, sweetheart. If you haven't had a chance, please also check out Anti-Racist Parent and Upside-Down Adoption. Both offer interesting takes on raising children of color and self-education about racism, and not just from White parents. I'm so sorry that this is something you've had to struggle with. No child should have to bear the terrible weight of racism. (And no adult for that matter...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com