The Utah Supreme Court today put a temporary hold on a trial judge's orders to return a little girl to her soldier father after she was given up for adoption without his consent two years ago.
And what makes this all worse is that adopting a child of color is seen as a status symbol for the... kind of people who live in Utah Valley and Utah Valley is pretty much all white. This is a white family that stole a Black baby.
The Utah Valley area is ridiculously white, LDS, and conservative. It's a fake and toxic culture where appearance is the upmost concern. For these white families to adopt a child of color is just a way to show off how charitable they are, brown kids are like an accessory. The Freis even changed this baby's name like she's a fucking dog they got at the pound not a human being. Her name is Teleah, not Leah.
White people need to keep their fucking hands off our children. I'm sick of seeing stories like this and Heart of Jesus do I hate living in Utah. At least I'm in Salt Lake Valley, not Utah Valley.
And let's not forget that the Book of Mormon teaches that dark skin is a curse from God, and that Native Americans will become white if they become LDS.
(We had our house trashed, bibles and books of mormon thrown at us, et la...)
That is completely horrifying. My baby daddy (and currently disfellowshiped Mormon) served his mission in Provo and thought that the Mormons there were kind of scary, but he never met anything like this. Upstanding religious people.
(Though I do think that some white people adopt non-white children out of love, and not for an accessory and they shouldn't be punished either...just maybe not so much in that region?).
Okay, that was pretty blunt of me, but my experience of being in Utah while being brown and visibly Muslim as I wear the hijab, is pretty negative. White people telling their kids to not touch anything I've touched while in public and their kids intentionally hitting me in stores and the slurs... ugh. The best place for Teleah is with her Black family who can better protect her from a racist world, not a clueless white family in literally the most conservative place in the entire USA.
"White people telling their kids to not touch anything I've touched while in public and their kids intentionally hitting me in stores and the slurs... ugh."
What the frak? I'm so sorry you're going through that.
If she stays there I can see them telling her everyday that she should be thankful that she was rescued from her evil "gentile" father and given the blessing of being raised in a white, LdS family. They will constantly make her feel like she is less than them, but their charity is boundless.
I can't even imagine being brown or visibly Muslim in Utah, let alone both. It seems rather weak to say that you have my sympathy, but I can't really think of anything good to say with this situation.
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Wait, what?
"This is a white family that stole a Black baby."
I hadn't even thought about that.
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White people need to keep their fucking hands off our children. I'm sick of seeing stories like this and Heart of Jesus do I hate living in Utah. At least I'm in Salt Lake Valley, not Utah Valley.
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Read about it here: http://www.mrm.org/white-and-delightsome
Can you imagine being an African-American child and growing up in that religion?
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That is completely horrifying. My baby daddy (and currently disfellowshiped Mormon) served his mission in Provo and thought that the Mormons there were kind of scary, but he never met anything like this. Upstanding religious people.
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(Though I do think that some white people adopt non-white children out of love, and not for an accessory and they shouldn't be punished either...just maybe not so much in that region?).
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"White people telling their kids to not touch anything I've touched while in public and their kids intentionally hitting me in stores and the slurs... ugh."
What the frak? I'm so sorry you're going through that.
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I can't even imagine being brown or visibly Muslim in Utah, let alone both. It seems rather weak to say that you have my sympathy, but I can't really think of anything good to say with this situation.
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