Cathy had wanted adopt from India for the best of reasons, of course: so they could have a child that looked like Remy. But, he thought, would we have looked here if we could have found a white baby in America? He and Cathy had always prided themselves on their politics and supported progressive causes, so why have they not considered a Black adoption? Remi knew the answer: there was a caste system in America and he had successfully scaled it./1
Singout The advantages that he had been born to India had followed him to America. But a caste system depended on dividing people into ever thinner strata of status. This was something white liberals failed to understand with their lumping together of people of color. Hell, he had never even known he was considered “Asian” until he‘d moved to America. Adopting a Black child would have pulled him into a racial cauldron that he‘d managed to avoid. 10h
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