By now you probably know I didn’t check the OK box for African American Children on my fost-adopt form. I've been writing about my self imposed rules over the last few days and why I made them, and that troublesome little box ….

To refresh, here are the rules for accepting my next fost-adopt placement based upon a phone call we got last week.

1. I only want a child younger than K
2. We do not want a sibling group
3. We did not click the OK box for African American children on our last application.
4. I would rather have physical challenges than emotional (RAD etc) ones.

Today it's time to dissect rule number three.

I’ve been dreading writing about this issue, as I’m sure I’ll come across as racist or cowardly or both.

Maybe I am. I don't mean to be, but I have no experience. Last time I lived in a racial diverse town was back in the 70's in London. That hip city was all colours, and religions all melded together under one glorious city.

That was a long time ago.

Back when I was a teenager, and before plastic surgery became an expected norm, we saw big noses, funny chins, women with sagging breasts and people of all races and colors interacting with one another happily.

Now London routinely has race riots and whatever race you are, you blame another for your woes.

Anyhow, back to adoption.....Hubby and I didn’t check the ok box for AA children or Hispanic children or Asian children or any specific children.

We did check the box stating that Hubby and I are Caucasian, and then thought we’d let the chips fall as they may. We figured, incorrectly, we’d get calls on all races of children.

It didn’t happen. All the children that were placed with us are white.

Why?

The other day I zipped coded myself: (Thanks to Owlhaven's post)

This may help clear up the mystery:

Our sweet town is pretty much 100% Caucasian! Almost.

Here's our stats:

White Non-Hispanic (75.3%)
Hispanic (12.0%)
Black (6.6%)
Other race (5.0%)
Two or more races (3.9%)
American Indian (1.9%)
Korean (0.8%)

We live in a military town, and you see lots of mixed race couples driving in and out of the army base, but around town, well, we are mostly just white people. You do see other races, Black, Hispanic, Korean, out and about at the park or the store, but, bottom line is, our community is mostly white.

To be continued......