RIch Rostrom:
“In all probability, they discount the fees for adoption of black children to encourage adoption of them.”
Absolutely. No racism here, just common sense economics. “Racism”–whatever that means–would be to refuse to take any black kids in for adoption at all, although even in that case the motives might be other than “racism.”
What’s increasingly clear to me is that, while the “racism” of Jim Crow is fast disappearing, the PC, multiculturalist left insists on finding it everywhere, under every stone, and re-creating it by making “race” the alpha and omega of civilization.
Whatever you do, whatever your intentions, you can’t hide from accusations of “racism.” It has taken the place of the original sin.
In communist dictatorships, political sin had a variety of names: “bourgeois,” “imperialism lover,” “cosmopolitan” (because you read, say, Baudelaire or Goethe or Whitman, or, worse, you had once said, foolishly, when you thought you were among friends, that American science was better than Soviet Science), “Zionist,” “saboteur,”
“enemy of the proletariat/working people,” each of which accusation would have sent you to a labor camp, to the salt or lead mines, or to rot in a dungeon with your feet permanently in cold water.
This is where the accusation of “racism” is taking us.
