Show me where she says she doesnt want the child. She never attempted to put her up for adoption and has relocated to a more diverse area for the benefit of their daughter which tells me they are willing to do what it takes to be good parents.

Well I would expect it to be harder for a white lesbian couple who didn’t ask for a black child. I love how people are trying to act like racism doesnt exist and that conservative areas such as Uniontown are bastions of social harmony. You ever tried to find a hairdresser that does “ethnic” hair out in the sticks?…

Apologies for siking you out, but that comment is entirely useless. Black people are not celebrated and/or greeted with open arms in America. So hell yeah the response would’ve been different and it would’ve also reflected on the circumstances at hand and the cultural stigma associated with white parents…

The difference is the sperm bank didnt promise a straight or gay child, they promised a white child.

Exactly. I’m sure in typical Jezebel fashion the responses here would be markedly different if she had requested sperm from a black donor but instead received sperm from a white donor.

She is not wrong about the area she lives in though. Being mixed race there would be a nightmare (having same-sex parents will be rough too). I hope they find the means to move.

Yeah, no. She and her partner needed to use donated sperm to grow their family. When you use donated sperm, you are paying a hefty price for a service, and it’s NOT UNREASONABLE to expect the clinic to provide you with the sperm of your choosing. Fuck, if she was partnered with a man, she would know and it would be…

Imagine that, most people who anonymously donate sperm to help strangers have children want those children to think of the people who actually raise them as their parents, and not the person who made the anonymous donation.

James Baldwin on the institutions of white supremacy such as the Texas school boards - it was true then as it is now:

This is it. More reason to supplement your kid’s education with facts and to closely monitor what they’re being taught in class here in Texas. I do this with my kid sister. She’s a senior now and has been going against the grain during her time in high school. Always questioning her teachers and sometimes being…

This is institutional racism. The Texas school board and religious right have been perverting history. They are worse than ISIS, as the Texas “Right” preverts history under the disguise of law not just their crappy view of god.

I get why you’re prickly about this, but you can’t just look at this as an isolated thing, and going all #notallwhitepeople isn’t helping the conversation. Tone policing has a loooooooong history, and has been used a) by men to shut down women and b) by whites to shut down POCs. So, when someone who looks like Miley…

THIS. She is clearly not a fit parent if she’s using her kids to recruit victims. Poor moms live in fear of getting their children taken away for letting them go to the park alone, but this lady makes her kid an accessory to her crime and gets to keep them? Bullshit.

Every. Other. Weekend.

If she were poor, she'd go to prison and her kids would go to group homes.

I hate this woman.

The fact that this person can’t see that the undefinable “clicking” with only white actresses is the racist part of their casting process is really crazying. Why can’t they see that THAT is the issue?