'white' lesbian couple sue sperm bank over black baby

[wolf39us]

Sperm bank screwed up plain and simple.

They failed to provide a product to the customer where it was requested.  Worse yet, it's an irreversible mistake.  The sperm bank is definitely in the wrong and needs to pay up and big. 

[AllPurposeAtheist]

The city they are in is a "white flight" city, founded pretty much to give people a place to go to get away from all the "coloreds" moving in to other neighborhoods.

Yep.  The North gave us White Flight, which is why the South is so racist.

The south was racist long before "white flight" in the north and the north was also as racist.. White flight had more to do with mobility and the rise with tract housing, institutionalized discrimination by the insurance and lending companies, freeways and cheap cars. ..among other things.. Policing, federal and local policies and so on..

[EvanGalea]

The sperm bank probably had a first come, first serve policy.

You mean first cum first serve?

[AllPurposeAtheist]

You mean first cum first serve?

We in the English speaking world refer to that as implied reference..

[Solitary]

Well, cause the parents themselves made it so, saying stuff like how they live in an all white area and they wanted a white child so its not faced with discrimination for being black in this 'all white' area.
The fact these are two lesbian women, while as many people consider gay couples to be taboo as much as mixed race, makes you wonder how these two think about the implication of racism when the kid having gay parents is a none issue in there eyes.

And thats not me being homophobic I am gay, but you get my point, if its an all white area that would have issues with a mix race family, then surely the same would be for gay parents with a child. In other words the parents seem rather selective of what they consider an 'issue' here.

So you don't think their child would be discriminated against in an all white neighborhood by two lesbians?

[SGOS]

They would just put the donors in a room with a common bucket, and then stick it in the refrigerator at closing time.  The next day, they would put the sperm is vials, and label them with a date, just a date.  When they got an order, they would add details that were requested.

That's the nature of such business.  Did you ever wonder when you have a loved one cremated how much of the ash you get back is actually grandpa, and who else is in the box with him?

[Jason Harvestdancer]

The south was racist long before "white flight" in the north and the north was also as racist.. White flight had more to do with mobility and the rise with tract housing, institutionalized discrimination by the insurance and lending companies, freeways and cheap cars. ..among other things.. Policing, federal and local policies and so on..

That pleading really is special.

[aitm]

I think I would be pretty pissed if I my wife delivered a black kid..and I am sure I would be pretty pissed if I got a child of any other race. Its not really racist to want a child that at the very least is the same "color" as you. People who have children of other races are wonderful but don't tell me the kid does not go through some shit over it, even if its not alot, its shit I don't a child to have to go through, so why would I want my child to go through it? In another 20-30 years maybe race will be a quieter issue (one can hope) but its not now.

[Munch]

You know the irony, the current president of the united states is mixed race. His mothers white and fathers black, so yeah, if there was any time for an example of a mixed race child would seem acceptable and not taboo, it be now.

[Hakurei Reimu]

The city they are in is a "white flight" city, founded pretty much to give people a place to go to get away from all the "coloreds" moving in to other neighborhoods.

Yep.  The North gave us White Flight, which is why the South is so racist.

...I'm still trying to figure out what your point is here. Would you care to elaborate why this is at all relevant to the plot?

[AllPurposeAtheist]

...I'm still trying to figure out what your point is here. Would you care to elaborate why this is at all relevant to the plot?

Jason's pretending to be smart again..

[aitm]

...I'm still trying to figure out what your point is here. Would you care to elaborate why this is at all relevant to the plot?

because there are not just one but very very many towns where white people still don't want black people to live in.

[Munch]

because there are not just one but very very many towns where white people still don't want black people to live in.

I would have thought those towns would be just as backwards towards gay couples too though.

[aitm]

I grew up in an all white town..and they still are. 6 gays kids that I grew up with committed suicide before they were 30( unfortunately they never left that stupid town), but there are gay people there now and they are well known about. There are still no blacks, or anyone of any color, other than the last of the two native indian families.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

"White flight" has not one fucking thing to do with the law suit which on the face of things is over medical malpractice. The women wanted a white kid and got a black kid. It has not one fucking thing to do with a bunch of lilly liver mother fuckers afraid of their own shadows.