How many times can we say the so-called “extremists” were right again? — Ed
On the Wednesday, March 3, World News on ABC, inspired by currentefforts to adopt orphans in Haiti, correspondent Ron Claiborne filed areport promoting the view that black children may be harmedpsychologically from being adopted and raised by white parents.Claiborne focused on the case of black filmmaker Phil Bertelsen whocomplains that “he and other black adoptees tell a similar tale, offeeling estranged, cut off from their own racial identity and culture.”
Ironically, on the Monday, March 8, The View on ABC, as the groupdiscussed the film The Blind Side which features a white family takingin a black teen, co-host Barbara Walters complained about those whocriticize interracial adoption as the more left-leaning Joy Behar andguest co-host and actress Vanessa Williams complained that the filmportrayed white parents as being the answer to social problems oftroubled black kids.
[snip]
On March 8 The View, during a discussion of the Academy Awards andthe film The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock, guest co-hostWilliams complained: “It brings up a theme for black folks that, okay,here’s another white family that has saved the day in terms of anotherblack story that has to have a white person come in and lift them up.And I’m not saying that it’s not true and it didn’t happen, but it’sone of those, do I really want to see the same theme again?”