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Learn About An Indian-American Couple Who Adopted White Children

This article, over at Huffington Post, provides a different look at race in America. We’re Indian-American With Adopted White Children And Here’s What People Ask Us A lovely, gentle piece exploring a mother's love for her children, both from birth and from adoption. I particularly enjoy the voice she adopted. Some great lines in there. My favorite: "The hyphen will define us more than the terms themselves...", which tells a big part of the story about race in the United States right now. I doubt Ms. Iyer thought much about the social experiment she would be opening up. I expect, simply, that she and her husband followed their hearts and opened their homes. She opened my mind with her writing. I hope the same for you.

Ferguson

Violence doesn't heal. Tis a short term thing, Self-inflicted grief Building upon agony. Simmering wreckage, Quite close to home. New destruction layered Upon the old. Gargantuan pachyderm Calmly sits, Ignored.