What a little shit.

While I agree an intelligent parent will prepare a child for a life where his race is taken into account, I don't think it should be that much more difficult to raise a black child (if you aren't black). We live in the information age.

The ideal would be for the child to know a lot of mentors that are black, but the ideal isn't the big issue when we're talking about children and would-be parents in need. I see no issue with adopting an Asian either. But the reason people adopt out of country is that it is indeed a nightmare to adopt a child domestically, at least some times. I've seen a hearing pushed back twice while a biological father whines that he could choose one of his two sons he's abandoned for years (and the system balks at him for that).

It's too raw an issue for anyone to start preaching at people trying to put a family together in a fucked up world.

You see, in the mid-nineties, Seate used his carefully cultivated image as a "biker" to con the editor of Iron Horse magazine into letting him submit some articles which were printed in Iron Horse.
Contrary to what Mike Seate claims, he was never an employee of Iron Horse magazine or it's publisher and never recieved any compensation for his sporadic submissions to the magazine, but he has claimed this in his editorials for other publications, including chronologically stretching his "career" with the magazine by seven fold. He wrote a few articles for it over a year and a half, but claimed elsewhere to have written for it for "several years".

Now to the good part, after he betrayed the trust of the staff of Iron Horse magazine, which actually treated him like gold and like a true friend until they stuck it in their ass and they saw he was a piece of human garbage, they followed his writings elsewhere for a few years and called him on every lie and dumb-ass remark he made. You can find the back issues with this documentation of Seate's scam on ebay easily.

Iron Horse issues #133,136,138,139,140,149 and 150 all have in-depth critiques of Seate, catching him in various lie's and incompetent acts, and these critiques hold no punches.

I am have been involved with motorcycles for almost fifty years, my father was a dealer for British motorcycles in the late fifties and early sixties, I love British bikes and all people who enjoy motorcycling. Mike Seate is a horrible cancer to the world of motorcycling. The disinformation he has spouted in motorcycling periodicals and books, the contribution he has made into whoring the sport to pop hipsters, is damage that I can only hope will turn back and eat him alive someday.

Seate slathers himself with every pop-culture cliche, latches onto any part of life that is real and turns it into a whore-house, bleeding the life out of it for his own personal gain, destroying it, all the while looking for the next victim to walk by that he can bullshit into his web of mediocrity…..

First of all, I don't believe in judging the adoption choices other people make, and I certainly don't believe in involving the government in policing their hearts. I have a friend who wanted to adopt from Korea because she was adopted from Korea. Does that make her racist or evil? If Mike Seate were more of a principled doer than an unprincipled talker, he might want to adopt an African-American baby from foster care out of concern and solidarity for a need in the African-American community. Would you judge him for that? Another family might recognize that they don't know any African-Americans, or any Asians, and might not have cultural resources available related to that group, and might therefore not feel equipped to raise a baby from that group in a responsible way (that is, in a way that doesn't ignore the baby's heritage and the different treatment the baby will experience in the world because of it.) That's not racist. Nor is it racist to be uncomfortable adopting a baby of a particular ethnicity when powerful social worker groups — with members who may be assessing your suitability as a parent — proclaim that it would be cultural genocide for you to do so.

Second, your proposal would necessarily mean that people would not only be prevented from choosing their baby's ethnicity; they'd be prevented, apparently by the trans-national bureaucracy Patrick suggests, from choosing the country they'd like to adopt from.

That's never going to happen.

Many of the decision points I suggest above would apply with equal force to someone adopting from Ethiopia or Haiti. But Seate was not sneering at people adopting from those countries, but was singling out people adopting from Asia.

By the way, I am not the one saying that adopting a black child is the only option in the domestic system. Mike Seate is the one suggesting that by talking only about black and brown kids in the domestic system.

There is no, and let me repeat, no reason that any American family should be having biological kids when tens of thousands of American kids languish in foster care.

Hmmm…I wonder why Mr. Seate doesn't take on the far more widespread American fashion trend of bearing biological children instead of adopting chidren from U.S. foster care?