Strickland33
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Damn, MSNBC sucks. Reminds me why I don't waste my time with this crap. It's a shame to see MHP stoop so low, though. I really do respect her.
The "lucky kid" comment is usually someone trying to say something positive that has never really taken the time to think about adoption. It's a surface comment without any real thought invested. How lucky is a kid whose birth parents are dead, or who don't really want him or are incapable of taking care of him? For all of the joys and good that comes from adoption, there's tons of brokenness too. I'd wager quite a bit more bad than good in the grand scheme. People seem to forget that a kid is going to deal with a lot of pain, shame, questions, not feeling whole, etc growing up. And that racial issues will be hard...really hard. And few, if any, think about the brokenness of the mom (and sometimes dad) who gave up their kid. Sure, there's plenty of good in adoption, but none of it could happen if things hadn't already gone horribly wrong. There's nothing lucky about it.
Harris-Perry was absolutely wrong.
The irony here is DeacMan never starts threads when Faux News, Hannity, O'Reilly or others are equally bad or worse and don't apologize.
Recap?
Wait, just read the article more closely.
The woman who poked fun at the picture was a black baby in a large white Mormon family herself???? Did I read that right?
Anyone see Romney's response on Fox News Sunday this morning? Say what you want about him but he handled this with pure class (not surprisingly).
MH-P sounded like she was almost in tears. The original piece was stupid and insensitive, but the apology was definitely heartfelt. Handled correctly by MSNBC and by Romney.