Keep this post alive so that when CARLOS is old enough he’ll know these KIDNAPPERS stole him from his MOTHER!
Guatemalan mom: “Please help me my son was taken from me”
Those two assholes: “Lol finders keepers bitch lmao”
Carlos was taken from his mom, Encarnacion Bail Romero after she was arrested during a work raid. Her words, “Nobody could help me because I don’t speak English,” are still resonating deeply within me. This child was kidnapped from a loving mother, and she went to hell and backwards trying to get him back, and a judge literally told her she had no rights to her own child.
Completely unfit parents can get their children back like it’s nothing and this poor woman who loves her child and just wants him with her again cannot? How is this not human trafficking/kidnapping?
Also:
The judge said the biological mother had no rights to even see her child, according to the mother’s lawyer.
Asked if the Mosers would allow Bail Romero to see the child, the Mosers’ attorney, Joseph Hensley, said the couple was “not willing to comment on that at this time.” source
reminder that many children are funneled specifically to Christian families and communities for the same reasons they always have: destroy culture, stack votes, add bodies to communities that otherwise wouldn’t hold majorities. it is literal, actual trafficking.
This is a part of genocide. Removing the children from their parents, who generally desperately love and want to raise them, and placing them with white American families is a way to erase their culture from existence without the ugliness of directly killing children. But it’s still ugly, and it cares nothing for the actual welfare of the child.
when are y’all going to fucking tear down the detention centers?
anyone who supports this has no business calling themselves a christian, saying they have any moral authority, or pretending that nothing wrong happened
any person with a functioning moral compass should be sickened by this
I hope Carlos and other kids like him see this post and know they were not fucking adopted. they were kidnapped.
I tend to favor a branching structure of teaching. Conversations act a bit like building blocks: seemingly heading in new directions, but still connected to what came before it. Last week my students were discussing inspiration porn, which led to the influence of viral content more broadly, which led to memes, which led to the latest memes, which landed us in a conversation about Marie Kondo.
“Does it spark joy?” came a voice in the back, just a hint of derision in the tone. I’m not even sure anyone else caught it, focused as they were (or at least, pretending to be focused) on the lecture I was giving. Looking back, I can see that it was a missed opportunity. I mean sure, I mentioned the recent, racist backlash against Kondo, but it didn’t become the focal point of the conversation in the way that it perhaps should have. I had too much else to say about arguments and ideology’s connection to humor, the persuasively fast-paced world of our online spaces, and the importance of allowing minority groups to speak for themselves. This semester’s class is a class on disability, not racism. I moved on, despite the fact that intersectionality is a Thing That Exists and I now regret that choice.
This is an excellent breakdown! I’d like to expand a bit on this point:
So let’s be real. If a man had come up with “sparks joy” or, more likely, a white woman? We’d be seeing it all over Etsy and the only criticism leveled its way would have come with a healthy dose of fond indulgence. You all just don’t like a Japanese woman telling you what to do.
Prior to Marie Kondo’s Netflix series (and mainstream “exposure”), her books were very popular, especially with a certain subset of (predominantly white) upper-middle class women. For years, there were numerous positive articles and thinkpieces written on her KonMari method.
She was perceived as nonthreatening so long as she remained a vague concept, a quaint and exotic flavour of housekeeping.
It’s extremely telling that the backlash against Marie Kondo coincides not just with increased visibility, but specifically her visibility as an ethnically-Asian woman speaking for herself, without compromising on her identity or choice of language.
It also doesn’t help that her series profiles a wide variety of households and families, which flies directly in the face of the exclusivity that her prior fanbase tried to cultivate around her books.
