Transracial Abduction & Colonialism: Breaking Down the System
The transracial abduction industry has its roots in the colonialist attacks of white america on poor people of color, domestically and internationally. The history of the united states is a history of genocide against people of color, and transracial abductions (both formal/legal and informal) have played a key role in this system of psychological, economic, cultural, and military control.
Within the united states there is a long history of children of color being taken from their families, bought and sold, put in boarding schools and “educated” in white culture and the english language. Whether this process of indoctrination happens within a slave economy, a Native American boarding school, or a white middle-class nuclear american family, the ideology behind the process is the same: total annihilation of the child’s identity, language, and culture, and further disempowerment of the child’s community.
—So Yung
CodeLens Note: Take note of the use of the term “abduct” rather than “adopt”. Victims of Racism should always use words to reveal truth about the system of Racism (White Supremacy) even if it means we have to “coin” new terms or use existing terms to describe what we are really seeing and not what the Racists (White Supremacists) want us to see.
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CodeLens offers a critical examination of the unjust system known as Racism (White Supremacy) to discover ways in which it can be dismantled and replaced with Justice. Justice means guaranteeing no person is mistreated for any reason and guaranteeing the people who need the most help get the constructive help they need.
