"Dad, don't let them take me away", she said, only 6 years old, to her father. But it could not be, because the social workers came to look for her in the name of a law that is already many years old and whose application is in question, especially in cases like this: they took her away from her family because they discovered that it was 1.5% native american, and his parents are white.
Lexi: 98.5% white, 1.5% Native American
Surely you will not be understanding very well what I mean. I was surprised to read the news for not understanding what the story was about. In short, this goes from those moments when laws are applied in a stupid, illogical way, without any sense, above love and above common sense.
I have already spoken on other occasions about social services. They do an incredible, magnificent job in the protection of minors and their interests and rights, but sometimes they screw up to the bottom and this case today is flagrant.
Lexi is a 6-year-old girl who has lived for five years with a foster family in Santa Clarita, California. She is the only family she knows and the home from which she has been taken is the only one she has remembered, and since she was one year old she began to be part of that family and she no longer only has parents, but also siblings.
The reason he came into their lives was the withdrawal of custody of his biological mother when he was 17 months old. Apparently, her mother was a habitual consumer of banned substances and at the risk to the girl they sought a host family.
But after the time, when this family requested adoption they realized that Lexi had Native American roots from the Choctaw.
The Law for the Well-being of Indian Children
In 1978 a federal law was drafted that aimed to protect the interests of Native American children. At that time there were a large number of indigenous children who were separated from their homes and became part of non-indigenous households, separated in customs from their true culture.
To preserve the culture and defend these children, the law granted an unconditional right to the tribe, the parents or the indigenous person responsible for the child to decide where each child should live.
And after five years, instead of assuming that the girl is only 1.5% indigenous, and instead of considering that she is already part of a family that loves and cares for her, and of which she already feels part , they execute the law so that they will live with a couple that is not of indigenous origin, and whose only relationship with it is that the woman was married to the biological father of Lexi, who is a Native American in a percentage also very low ( It is part of the Choctaw Nation) and has a broad criminal record.
And the Choctaw consider it the best
Those responsible for the tribe, those who have the power to enforce the law, believe that the best for the girl, since she has Choctaw blood, is to be part of the tribe again. And that's the shame, that they do it thinking about the blood, that 1.5%, instead of what the girl really needs, which is to be with her real parents, his parents at heart, those who welcomed her without knowing what her blood was like, willing to love her without conditions.
I am increasingly clear that we live in a world of the craziest, most disrespectful, the most absurd.
In case you want to collaborate, the family began a collection of signatures in Change to request the return of Lexi with their host family.
