Interracial Adoption

Last month I posted a blog about interracial adopting (primarily Whites adopting Black children), and all of the controversy surrounding the subject.  I received a comment from one of my classmates saying that it bothered her that the child was from Africa and no the US (I didn't necessarily agree with her view, but I understood it). The majority of the examples I used were celebrities like Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Mary-Louise Parker, and new mother Sandra Bullock. Recently, actress Mariska Hargitay, a woman of Hungarian heritage, adopted a baby. Her daughter, beautifully named  Amaya Josephine, is Black. However, unlike Jolie, Madonna, and Parker her daughter was born in the United States, to American parents. To those who it felt uneasy about the subject, I want to know is it now "ok"? The complaints about a White woman not being able to do her Black daughter's hair? Teach her child their Black history from the perspective of a Black woman? Give them the "Black experience"? Is it now solved now that the baby we're speaking of is American? My answer to those questions would be, no. When raising a child everything will not be "ok." But when it truly comes nurturing and caring for a child those things shouldn't matter; and to a loving parent those things don't matter. The point of adoption is to place a child in home where they will be "better off" than the life they would have had with their birth parents, whether for financial or moral issues. My mother struggled with my hair, and we weren't always financially comfortable, but that's just it: everything isn't going to be perfect. Parenting isn't about being perfect, it's about being the best that you can to give your child what they need.