Black Kids in White Houses

Follow this LINK to a fantastically thought provoking article on transracial adoption. It has both scared and worried me about our impending adoption, and got me seriously wondering if we are doing the right thing. We are bringing a black child from Ethiopia to live in a rural English village where you can count the number of ethnic minority families on one hand. I think having a family is much better than growing up parentless in an orphanage, but growing up in a black family or a white family in a much more diverse area would be a lot better for her too. We can't offer that. We are going to have to work extremely hard to build and maintain connections with the black (and hopefully the Ethiopian) community around us. I am going to have to step out of my comfort zone and be the uncomfortable one - why should a child constantly have to bear that burden. One that she hasn't chosen or asked for, we are the ones making the choices and we should be the ones bearing the brunt of the consequences of those choices. I just hope that somehow we can make this work for both our not (yet) so obviously transracially adopted Little Prince and our future Ethiopian daughter.