I have read your posts closely. I was responding to this one specifically:
Originally Posted by Sleuth99 :
Just because there are Black professionals (or other non/white people ) involved doesn't mean racism is absent. Black people (or other non/white people ) can help uphold the affects and institutionalized power of racism against black people (or other non/white people ) too.
It seems to me that you are saying that the black social workers and adoption workers were upholding racist actions against the birth family by following through on this adoption procedure.
And I disagree with that position.
Of course, the ending was horrific and tragic and should never have happened. But that still does not mean that they should have been left in their original home, given what they knew at the time.
ETA:
According to the appeals court opinion, the children's biological mother had three older children, one of whom had several bone fractures before being removed from his mother's care, who were born before the four trying to be adopted by the aunt.
Of the second group, one sibling, Jeremiah, tested positive for cocaine when he was born in 2004, leading to family and protective services becoming involved with the family again, the appeals opinion said.
After the mother tested positive for cocaine when her seventh child was born in 2006, the state agency took custody of her four remaining children, and her parental rights were terminated.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...f/2018/04/hart_children_should_be_remove.html
