Piper Kendrix Williams
Wyndmoor, PA
This morning (6/27/13) I heard the story on Morning Edition’s Race Card segment of the sliding fee scale based on the race of a child being adopted. The conversation touched on the difficulty and complicated nature of assigning differing “value” to black, bi-racial, and white children. It seemed clear to me, that like many things, value and race are haunted by the legacy of slavery. Black children had literal/monetary value to their slave masters (sometimes fathers as well) but NO value as a human being with equal right. In the still questionable “freedom” we exist in today can any honestly say the America “values” all of its children equally?
