Jada opens up about her past bias toward interracial adoption during candid conversation with Sex and the City star (via toofab)
star is mom to two adopted black children; daughter Gemma and a son whose name she has not publicly revealed.
Speaking about the adoption process, Jada brought out a questionnaire prospective parents must fill out, a questionnaire which includes a page where the parent-to-be has to check off which ethnicities they'd feel comfortable adopting. To prepare, she took "a lot of courses," one which was all about hair. "I know it's a big thing and I'm still learning," she admitted. The hair course really interested both cohosts."What I learned is it's a big thing and it has a whole long cultural history to it and you absolutely have to learn because it's a bonding situation," Davis continued.
"That was when it began and I would hold my baby and try to be polite, but I'd just be like, this is really deep and bad and how dare they limit my child and how dare they make that assumption," she continued. "That was the beginning of how I still feel. Our country is built on this, it's institutionalized.
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