Chapter Eight Page 24
Hey, remember these two?
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Up in MA, back to the present.
Sparrow: And with that kind of strategy, we’re practically guaranteed to have a Democratic landslide in November!
Mrs. Applebaum: Bravo, dear! I’m so proud of you.
Sparrow: Thanks, Mom.
Mrs. Applebaum: Sparrow? You look a bit low . . . Are you eating properly? Do you want me to send more herbal supplements?
Sparrow: I’m fine. Although if you could find us a replacement recliner, that would be nice. Just wondering about something . . . it’s the reason I asked you to come visit, actually . . . What was my sperm donor like? And was there anything . . . weird . . . about him?
Mrs. Applebaum: So you finally want to know . . .
Sadly, the records are sealed and I didn’t write any of it down.
Sparrow: Thanks, Mom.
Mrs. Applebaum: Of course, you’re not a minor any more! If you want to sue the agency to get that information unsealed, you have the legal standing. And my full support. I’ve always wanted you to have a strong connection to your heritage. That’s why I picked a donor who looked as much like me as possible! So that even if you only ever got in touch with my culture, you wouldn’t have to feel you were missing out!
Not sure I get the Mom’s reasoning here.
“I picked someone who looked like me so you would look like me.”
Sounds like the reasoning of someone who likes Jango and Boba Fett a bit too much. It does explain why Sparrow is basically a Mini-Me of the mom.
I think this could be a problem if you take racial issues into consinderation. When white families for example adopt kids from other cultural backgrounds there can be all sorts of problems. White parents may not know how to treat black children’s hair properly. If the children are older who is going to teach them traditions they would have learned in a family from a similar cultural background.
I think the intend behind this was not “I want a carbon copy!” but rather ensuring that there was no disconnect between Sparrow’s genetic heritage and wht she grew up with.
it always seems stupid that somebody’d adopt a kid of a different race and raise them as that race. its your kid raise them like any other kid you’d have.
otherwise they get all messed up inside like Worf. raised by humans as klingon, more ridiculously hardcore klingon than anybody you’d find on Qonos, and has no idea what to do with his half human son. ect.
it makes the child feel more left out and alien if you ever end up with others of your own race. adopt 2 white kids and an asian and raise the kid Chinese and his siblings German. it just hammers in a “I don’t belong here” feeling and gives them some kind of complex
Yo, did a small edit on your comment for language. Avoid the R-word here in the future, all right?
Everything I’ve heard from actual transracial adoptees (as opposed to fictional ones) indicates that it’s most damaging for adoptive parents not to acknowledge their child’s race, or to try to raise them with no awareness of their culture and heritage. Trying to raise adopted children as exactly like biological children is likely to make them feel guilty and upset when they don’t fit the mold, and it pressures them not to be curious about their biological parents or history.
she means she got a jewish donor
she’ll sue for info and realize her mother accidentally found a long lost cousin
She got a jewish donor so that her daughter feel left out in the family.
You know who came to mind when you said that? Cohen.
*Fingers crossed that it’s a straight laced evangelical for sheer comedy*
Right, I’m labeling Sparrow’s mother a Cloudcockoolander from now on.
I want to see Sparrow explain while she needs to know…
Also, what I had missed last page was that Bennett had worn a Nevada sweatshirt while riding the Bunny when he attacked the nightclub. I was being a little slow…
Aw, Sparrowmama :heart:
:) Wasn’t that supposed to never be mentioned in the comic again?
I think Erin might have been being silly/flippant when she said that. That, or Sparrow will be chasing a red herring about her heritage.
Oh so that’s how that happened. ;)