They become a witness to institutional racism.
People are very comfortable being racist when they think nobody around is going to tell.
So when you make a commitment through marriage or by adoption to love a person of color, you're also agreeing to take on the impact of racism too, particularly when you raise a kid. In a lot of ways, an interracial relationship is no different than a same race relationship. Our lives are filled with all kinds of perils and hazards, happiness and sadness, and goodness and badness. It's no different. Obviously, when we choose to go to certain parts of the country, we know we're going to be stared at.