ADOPTION: YOU CAN DO IT! Blog post #21, Chapter 16 – Race, Ethnicity, and an Expanded Heritage

Posted December 30, 2016

This coming week my publisher is refining the cover for my book – how exciting! Until you can read my book in print next month, I hope you’ll enjoy reading excerpts now online, like this week’s from ADOPTION: YOU CAN DO IT! A Husband-Wife Guide for Successfully Raising Adopted Children in a Christian Home.

Race, Ethnicity, and an Expanded Heritage

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. -Genesis 1:27

“Oh, Mom, I just love it!” exclaimed my daughter. She was grinning ear-to-ear and couldn’t stop smiling as she admired her new hairdo. My brown daughter had just turned 13 years old. The last time I was shopping in the ‘big city,’ I stopped at a beauty supply store and purchased a relaxer treatment for her hair. The guys had headed out to a car show for the weekend, and my oldest daughter was home from college, so we girls had a hen party around the kitchen table playing beauty parlor. Since my oldest daughter has the knack for all things glamorous and fashionable, the two of us tackled the treatment of my younger daughter’s hair, having never done such a thing before. With trepidation we white chicks read the directions at least three times, set out all the products on the kitchen table, toweled and draped my 13-year-old, then began to relax her kinky, curly black hair. Laughing at our ineptitude, chattering rapidly with my excited daughter who had wanted her hair straightened for years, we accomplished our goal in less than an hour. My daughter now had hair that lay down in waves, instead of standing up in a high Afro. It was tangle free and neatly trimmed. She had a reason to smile broadly!

I would like to make a point here about the use of the word ‘race’ before I go further into this chapter. I use the word ethnicity instead of race. I am a Creationist Christian, believing in the literal six-day creation by God Almighty. I do not believe in evolution. Though I was taught evolution as ‘science’ in my public school upbringing, as an adult I decided for myself that God Almighty, and His Bible, and His telling of the creation account was not just a story, but scientific fact. As I grew in my understanding and belief of Almighty God, His Universe, and His Creation of Mankind, I realized that to believe in evolution meant that one was in fact a ‘racist.’ I believe that evolution dictates white people are further evolved and advanced than brown people, who are more evolved and advanced than black people, who are more evolved and advanced than great apes.

Additionally, I can’t help shaking my head in disbelief at the idea that we all started out as no more than a slug millions of years ago, and the universe spontaneously came out of nothing billions of years ago. This pseudo-science is, in fact, contradictory to scientific principles that state all things come from something and matter doesn’t come out of nowhere spontaneously! So, yes, I categorically deny evolution.

(Continues in book.)

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Shari Howard McMinn is an author, editor, farmer, writer, and most importantly Mom to 11 children. Widowed very unexpectedly on June 2, 2013, Shari continued the direction of her life built with her late husband, Cary, and launched her public speaking and writing business which he had often encouraged her to do. Drawing from her 'over the top' life, she writes non-fiction and presents PowerPoint talks on issues related to family life, including adoption, childhood nutrition, family economics, homeschooling, and proactive parenting. She is available for broadcast interviews and presentations in Colorado and surrounding states, as well as Florida and Georgia. A dynamic speaker, Shari engages the audience with her true-life storytelling and practical advice based on experience and biblical wisdom.