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Custody case of Choctaw girl, 6, appealed to high court This girl 1 64ths "Choctaw"
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California family appealed Tuesday to the state's highest court in their fight to keep a 6-year-old foster child who was removed from their home after a lower court said her slight Native American heritage requires that she live with relatives in Utah.
I'm guessing "Rez" Jim Crow and the 1 drop rule STILL applies to anglo white people even with 1 64ths American Indian heritage as far as some Indians care about.
From what I read elsewhere, the girl is only 1.5% native American. And the new foster family (supposedly a relative) she is being sent to is non-native American, either. So this just seems wrong no matter how you look at it.
From what I read elsewhere, the girl is only 1.5% native American. And the new foster family (supposedly a relative) she is being sent to is non-native American, either. So this just seems wrong no matter how you look at it.
that foster family should lawyer up again and fight. this is incredibly unfair.
From what I read elsewhere, the girl is only 1.5% native American. And the new foster family (supposedly a relative) she is being sent to is non-native American, either. So this just seems wrong no matter how you look at it.
IMHO it's because the American "Indians" behind this are looking at money coming from somewhere; many more anglo white AND Black people have MUCH more than 1.5 percent Indian heritage but the tribes DON'T want them.
IMHO it's because the American "Indians" behind this are looking at money coming from somewhere; many more anglo white AND Black people have MUCH more than 1.5 percent Indian heritage but the tribes DON'T want them.
This is very true...I'm more Choctaw than that kid, and no one, not even myself, would say I'm Native American.
I'm also torn on this.
The first part that ticks me off is that they are playing with this kid's life for over 4 years. That is a very long time in a kid's life.
I'm ticked that the courts allowed it to go on.
I'm also upset at the foster family for continuing to do this, and even still considering trying to do more. They are a foster family. Foster.
The child has been visiting with her extended family since the beginning. She has a sister there. These are not the people who did whatever it was that put that kid in foster care in the first place. If they were trying to send her back to THOSE people, then yeah, I'd be all over the side of the FOSTER parents, but they aren't asking for that.
The extended family is not responsible for what some tool sheds in their family do. The extended family is also not necessarily going to bring the kid to the people who did whatever they did. Many times, that extended family wants nothing to do with the people who did what they did.
If that extended family can keep her safe and happy, and does not subject her to the people that did this to her, which is a very real possibility, then yeah, let her go.
Regardless of what anyone thinks: This needs to be over for this kid. This kid cannot continue to be pulled back and forth. Let the kid have a chance to settle in one place, no more legal bull, just let her heal. If the courts said extended family....then let it go.
Foster parents are suppose to be TEMPORARY living arrangements until next of kin can be found and they were found.... If these people don't want to be foster parents than go be adoptive parents, but if you want to be foster parents than follow the rules...
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Custody case of Choctaw girl, 6, appealed to high court This girl 1 64ths "Choctaw"
