Life Links 12

Dear America: A Few Things This Black Woman Would Like You to Know About Race ~ acknowledging prejudice and still talking, from What Tami Said
Adopting the Culture ~ a mainstream transracially adoptive family perspective, unfortunately, and commentary at Resist Racism
Not Exactly Diverse ~ on racial diversity in schools and language, by Paula
Top Ten Most Very Irksome Things Random People Say To Me These Days ~ from a visibly pregnant mom with transracially adopted preschoolers, by Heather
Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race ~ on multiracial people, from the New York Times
Realism in Older Child Adoption ~ Hard Month from Scraps by Nobody & What Adoptive Parents Never Talk About by DJ Dual Core
Why I Hate White ‘Anti-Racists’ ~ the title’s harsh, but the post is worth reading, by Resist Racism
From Scratch ~ the immeasurable worth of growing up with parents, from Process
Garcelle Beauvais Derided for her “White Twins” ~ on a mother who is perceived as Black, her White husband, and their multiracial light-skinned infant boys, at Racialcious written by dnA