Alabama lawmaker under fire for racist comments claiming white people don't want to adopt black babi [View all]
Source: Daily Mail
Alabama lawmaker under fire for racist comments claiming white people don't want to adopt black babies
By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 16:47 EST, 10 April 2014 | Updated: 16:53 EST, 10 April 2014
Adoptive parents in Alabama have hit back at state Rep. Alvin Holmes' racist comments that white Republicans would force their child to have an abortion if the father was black.
The Democrat sensationally declared during an anti-abortion bill last month that he would mortgage his house and give legislators $100,000 if they showed him 'a whole bunch of whites that adopted blacks in Alabama'.
Holmes may need to head to the bank after 'a whole bunch' of parents who've adopted children from other races turned up outside the Alabama State House for a rally yesterday.
'We will never move forward away from racism as long as we have leaders holding on to the past and turning everything into a race issue,' Beverly Owings, who has adopted four children with her husband, including a biracial daughter, said at the rally.
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Democrat???????
Not so much.
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