Carl Malone and John Stockton are two great basketball players who make a dynamic duo. Black and white. Chamique Holdsclaw and Kellie Jolly are two amazing women's college basketball players. Black and white. When Carl Malone and John Stockton combined to win a big game, or when Chamique Holdsclaw and Kellie Jolly won three NCAA championships, no one looked at the color of their skin. Yet, when people go to adopt it seems that all they see is skin color. If we can be colorblind in certain sports, why can't adoptions be colorblind"

One, if not the biggest, opponent of interracial adoptions is the National Association of Black Social Workers. In 1972, this group defined the adoption of African American children by white parents as a "cultural genocide," arguing that the practice destroys the racial identity of black children (Maxwell). Charles Fried, a Harvard law school professor asks:

"What...