Currently going through the process of getting certified as a foster parent, for that exact reason. Folks can't complain that whites are "raising" black kids, if we don't step up and do it ourselves.

I think it's wonderful that people adopt children. I wouldn't mind having my own and adopting a child when I get a little older.

My grandparents used to tell me to be wary of Nigerian men and not marry one. I guess something happened to a member of my family who married a Nigerian man.

i'm kicking myself because i didn't buy a jimmy lee sudduth painting that i had my eye on 2 years ago. he was a great talent. R.I.P.

As someone who volunteers for PP, I am all for adoption. The right to lifers never adopt!! I digress. If so many black people live in poverty or near poverty or are lower income I think we need to deal with that first before we can hope to adopt children. I mean, many black families struggle to raise what they have and I don't see them being able to take on extra children at this time. At least not in the numbers needed to really lower the amount of black children in foster care. However every child adopted is one life saved so more power to familes who are doing this.

I agree with BMD. We have so many internal problems to correct, before we even attempt to try and save children in the adoption system. Even though the stereotype exaggerates it, there is truth to the fact that a large portion (but not a majority) of Black homes, have a single mother environment. These women are often struggling to raise their own children, because the father is absent (be it from prison sentencing or being too much of a coward to do the right thing).

But I do agree that there is something very important in having Black people raise Black children. It is very much like what you see in Losing Isaiah. I have a friends who have a neice that is half Black (and one quarter white, one quarter mexican). They raise her, but I am always concerned for her emotional stability. She currently is the victim of self-hate. She once told her aunt (who is half white, half cuban) and uncle (who is all white) that one day, her brown skin will lighten, until she is white like they are. That was so hurtful to have told to me. Rather than learn how to braid hair, or at least leave it in a natural, they are harming her hair with relaxer, to make it managable for them. It's a real tragedy.

As for Katrina…i'm not surprised in the least. My aunt lost her home in Katrina. She can afford to rebuild it, but she has one serious problem. Her insurance company wants her to rebuild her house in the exact same spot. Only an idiot would do that, and my aunt is a professor at West Point. So we all know she is too smart to settle for the insurance company's current offer. It's ridiculous how badly mishandled this entire situation has been.