Those white lesbians that used their Black son for this photo op?
Yeah…they killed their kids.
That report I read was like ‘there were no skid marks’ and mentioned that it’s unclear how they drove all the way over the big ass area on the side of that road and off the cliff THEN said “there’s nothing to suggest it was intentional” THAT suggests it was intentional.
Right!! All of us with critical thinking skills knew what was up when “no skid marks”.
I remember when that picture was taken they claimed every Black person that expressed concern for what they they were teaching those kids just didn’t understand they were teaching the kids to live “fearlessly” And all I could think was how scared that boy looked & not in a “Learning to swim in deep water” way, but actual terror. And well, now we know what he was really afraid of & it wasn’t the cops.
“The Hart’s story is a tragic case study in racial disparity.
The ways in which Sarah and Jennifer managed to continually evade the notice (or action) of officials is a luxury that is by and large only provided to white parents.
All three of the states that the family lived in received reports of child welfare concerns, and yet apparently the children were never removed from the Harts’ care.
The disparity in ramifications for suspected—and confirmed—child abuse is particularly striking when compared with the jail time black mothers receive for something like leaving their kids at a food court while they were doing an interview less than 30 feet away. X Or for testing positive for marijuana after giving birth. X Or for only being able to afford an apartment where your landlord won’t fix a rat problem. X
The first time police were called about the child abuse was in 2008. After an elementary school teacher called the police due to the children’s bruises, the family moved and the children became homeschooled. The neighbor never saw them unless they were taking out the trash, they had little contact with the outside world, and CPS was called for the final time two weeks ago when the kids asked the neighbor for food because their parents weren’t feeding them.
The car’s software records that the vehicle accelerated for 70 ft before flying off the cliff; the final speed was 90 mph. Three children remain unaccounted for, and there are searches for them on land and at sea.
The amount of pain those six kids experienced for so many years is unfathomable.
mmm so that post about how zevran was originally supposed to be gay.. som people on it are sayin “dont act like he’s a lesser character because he’s bi” and ok Mood but as a bisexual the rep feels kinda cheap now because they didnt make him bi for the sake of bi rep. they literally made him bi to make him more palatable & because they thought they didnt have gay men in their demographic. also they made him bi with a Huge preference for women. as in he talks about how much he loves women all the time (big mood tho) and he will only talk about being attracted to men if the warden is male (also i think he flirts with a male warden less than he does with a female warden) and then there’s like one party banter where he says alistair’s handsome. and obviously having a preference doesnt make him less bi but cmon now. his one (1) relationship with a man is Never mentioned in game despite the fact that you meet that man and is only referred to in an out of game book and like? who the fuck reads those. you want me to pay extra for lore and i have to read it?? hard pass. also when u ask him about his sexuality he just says that he was raised & taught to be open-minded which is….not how bisexuality works At All and it??kinda implies that he was like. idk conditioned to be bi which is hmmm big yikes. so like yeah we got bi rep (and bi men are wayy more unrepresented than bi women) But At What Cost. i always want more bi rep but this aint how i want it. anyway thats my rambling incoherent hot take. thanks for comin to my ted talk
Was just discussing this exact thing with @raymurata the other day! Like I’m glad he’s bi and all but after reading about this I just feel annoyed about the way they went about it. It’s like they took the slider bar for his attraction all the way from only men, to past that middle line into strongly preferring women, like why? Again let me reiterate, I have no problem with this, plenty of bi people irl have preferences. I just mean like why go so far with it for him if he was originally supposed to be just into men, but no now hes into men, but actually prefers women much more?
And I’m just gonna have to chalk the whole “crows expect a certain open-mindedness” thing to him having identity issues stemming from being molded into a weapon for the crows so he really doesn’t know how much of who he is was just him, or built by the crows – because that is so not how bisexuality works!
But yeah basically in an effort to not get complaints of “pandering” to an audience they weren’t even sure if they had, they went totally in the opposite direction, trying to appease the homophobes out there by keeping Zev’s attraction to men pretty under wraps. Definitely not the same open flirting that a female warden gets, no mention of Taliesen and his sexual history – only that they were friends.
Anyway it was kind of wild to read about what happens behind the scenes. A lot about romance options vs cost justification (ie – if no one was going to play as a male and choose a gay romance option, then the cost wouldn’t be justified in making that content, from what I understand?? So opening him to female romance reaches wider audience)
“if you want to adopt kids at an older age, that’s just lazy and you’ll miss the important developmental years. you won’t be able to connect.” okay but consider this:
1. I will not be able to handle a baby, but I will definitely be able to manage and guide an older child
2. no diapers. hallelujah
3. As a foster child gets older, their chance of adoption plummets. Adopting an older child gives a late break to someone who would have otherwise had to age out of the system
4. my plans for adoption are none of your concern
Holy shit people actually say that? Inviting a kid in need to be part of your family is ‘lazy’?
Being there for the ‘developmental years’ is so important not having it is a dealbreaker?
‘You won’t be able to connect’ with another human being unless you’re there for their formative years, imprinting on them?
…people who make that argument should probably do a LOT of soulsearching before they consider getting a toy baby adopting a younger child.
I had a sociology professor once and both he and his wife were registered social workers (in addition to him teaching), and after a couple of years married, they started talking about adopting a child. They’d seen the system up close, they knew how hard it was for some kids to get adopted. So when they sat down to start the fostering process, they told the agency to give them their toughest, most difficult case. If anyone could handle a kid who’d been labeled a “problem child”, it was these two people.
The agency paired them up with a 12 year old girl – the oldest they had, far, far too old to be considered for adoption typically. This girl’s birth parents had had drug problems, she’d been in and out of a couple dozen foster homes, no one able to handle her, she ran away frequently and had diagnosed behavioral problems, she was surly and defiant. When she first met them, she was clammed up tight, snarky, unwilling to trust them or anyone – and really, who could blame her?
But these two adults poured every bit of their compassion and training into this one child, into getting to know her, earning her trust by listening to her and treating her like a person who mattered. And slowly, slowly, she came around. Slowly, they built a relationship with her, and she came out of her shell. It wasn’t always smooth sailing, but having these two adults who were utterly unwilling to give up on her, or see her as the problem, let them work through each issue as it arose, and slowly they started to see this other side of her personality emerge. She joked around, she grinned often, she got excited about sports games and yelled at the tv with her foster father, she was making friends at her new school and doing better in her studies.
One day they sat her down and told her they loved her and they wanted her to legally, officially be part of their family. But they thought she deserved a say, too. If she just wanted to be fostered for the next five, six years, they could do that too. But they wanted to adopt her, they wanted to keep her for always. Did she want them? Yes, she said. Yes, I want to keep you, too.
My professor came into class one day with a grin that just would not go away, bouncing on his toes. We all wanted to know what was up. The adoption was finalized today, he told us. Today I have a daughter! And he showed us pictures of his brand new 12 year old daughter hugged between he and his wife, the three of them grinning at the camera. I’ve been her dad for awhile, he told us, but today it’s official, today we’re finally really a family.
I heard that story in the spring of 2001, when I was 20. This girl just 8 years younger than me, the age of my younger siblings, this girl who everyone had given up on. But these two people, they knew they had enough love and training to handle whatever was thrown their way, these people stayed true to the commitment of being parents, didn’t give up when the going got tough, proved slowly and methodically that they loved her, that she could trust them.
That girl must be in her late 20s now. She’s had parents for more than a decade and a half. She hasn’t had to face this scary century alone. She has parents who went with her to her freshman orientation for college, I’m certain of it. If she’s gotten married, I know her father walked her down the aisle, that same grin splitting his face, the same grin as when he announced that he had a daughter, the same grin he wore every time he talked about her. If she’s had kids, her kids have the best grandparents.
They are a family of choice built on commitment and trust and love. You can’t tell me that isn’t bonding, you cannot tell me that it’s lazy, that that was somehow easier or less worthwhile than diapers.
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