The "experts" at CNN

If you can tonight watch CNN at 8 pm, they are having a segment on China Adoptions. Last week they did this show with Paula Zhan (sp?) and made us FCC (families with Chinese children) look like racist idiots. The show was actually about racism. It started out talking about China's new restrictions and the "expert" panalists ended up discussing how us FCC families adopted from there because we want smart, quiet children who will be little "China dolls". They talked about us and our future children like we are trying to obtain the newest Hermes bag. It made me sick to my stomach. These "experts" made statements like "why don't these people adopt from Iraq, are they afraid they will grow up to be terrorists" and "what is wrong with the black kids in this country? Are they afraid they will be lazy?" Wow. They said NOTHING about the fact that Chinese people rarely smoke or drink or do drugs, and therefore the children are very healthy, nor did they mention how difficult it is to adopt from the US and that you have to be chosen by the birthmom and she can come back a year later and take the kid back. Plus, you can't adopt from Iraq-there are very few countries that are even open to foreign adopters.Anyhow, the wonderful FCC community got so pissed (including myself) that over the weekend we bombarded the producers of CNN and all of the commercial sponsors. They are doing a rebuttal tonight and are having actual experts on the subject, including an adoption agency person, FCC members, ect. If you get a chance, please watch.....

If you read my blog back last spring, I also wrote about how Leslie Stahl and her crew at Dateline also made us look really bad, but at least we were never called racists....