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跨种族收养
Transracial adoption。在美国白人收养亚裔，非裔，西班牙裔小孩常见。而黑人收养其他族裔，尤其白人小孩不仅凤毛麟角，而常被怀疑绑架小孩。 'I've been accused of kidnapping my white child'。
Peter生在被《孤独星球》描述的 "the kind of place most people get through as fast as possible"的乌干达乡下。家里一贫如洗，10岁时他决定离开家独自生活。一天他上了一班车来到首都 Kampala ，到了市场摊位前找工 he headed to the market stalls that bordered the streets and asked the vendors if he could do work - any work - for food. 其后的几年里他一直在市场勤奋养活自己，后遇一好心人帮助他接受教育，他也以优异成绩回报这位善人。 Peter paid him back by excelling at school 。最终他获得奖学金去往美国学习并定居下来。
40岁时Peter在一个帮助乌干达的NGO工作，知道美国也有一些小孩无家可归，他们的境况也与自己的童年一样，需要一个温暖的家。于是他来到一家 foster agency做志愿者。他的房子有两间空闲卧室，随后几年不断接待临时有难，露宿街头的孩子们。有的住几天，有的住几个月。有一天工作人员问，愿意成为收养人不？他回答仍是单身。工作人员告诉他有的孩子就是缺失父亲教育，他们寻找的就是一位合格的父亲。他填了表，Peter assumed that he would automatically be matched with African American children. But he was shocked that the first child that came into his care was a five-year-old white boy.
一个黑人男子收养白人小孩有多难？一次从商场出来，他带着慢腾腾的孩子上车。过来一妇人问：“"Where is this boy's mother?" she asked.他答：”我是他的父亲“妇人马上拿出手机报警"Hello, police please," she said calmly down the phone. "Hey, there's a black man. I think he's kidnapping a little white kid."。他对孩子 Anthony说一但有事，自己只有10秒钟的解释时间，孩子是唯一见证人。"As a black man I have 10 seconds to explain who I am to the police before it potentially escalates," Peter says.
现在Peter与 Anthony幸福地生活在一起，他常常把父子二人快乐生活的图片在Instagram上与10万粉丝分享。他说："My boys haven't had stable male figures in their life," Peter says. "They need me all to themselves right now, and so long as they do, I'll be there for them completely."
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