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Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
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RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
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Quote:What is it with celebrities and African babies?.....According to reports, Madonna is the latest celebrity to adopt a child from the developing world. If the story is true, the 48-year-old singer has adopted a one-year-old boy from Malawi after a visit to the country. I'm afraid only two words spring to mind: vanity project. Madge wants a baby, so she goes to Africa and "saves" one - that way she gets her baby and scores points for doing a good deed.

....I am sick of the idea that adoption by white westerners is the best thing for an African child.  The impression given is that by adopting an African child Madonna is somehow "rescuing" him from a life of misery. The implication being that anything is better than growing up in Africa, even having Madonna as a mother.

But no amount of luxury can make up for having lost my family.

It's arrogant to assume the only way to deal with poverty in the developing world is for westerners to adopt a few "lucky" children.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/oct/06/comment.familyandrelationships


Quote:In March 2011 the Ethiopian government announced it would cut down intercountry adoption by as much as 90 percent, increasing scrutiny of orphanages amid allegations of fraud and document falsification in what had become a lucrative “baby business.”

....Ethiopian children who went from adoptive homes to living on the streets in the Northwest.

“The problem is always ongoing,” he said. “Adopted children who come here from Ethiopia are kicked out of homes."
http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2015/12/21/ethiopia-international-adoption-regulation-washington-hana-williams/44659


Quote:...international adoption scandals, adoption corruption, child "harvesting", baby-stealing, legal violations in international adoption, or adoption agency corruption (see child laundering; child trafficking In the United States)......international adoptions are a big business, where a large number of private international adoption agencies are paid on average $30,000 a time to find a child for hopeful parents."....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_adoption_scandals
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#12
RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
The saddest part of all is that the two little tykes prefer to listen to Vanilla Ice.

Oh, the humanity.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
(March 25, 2017 at 7:40 am)mh.brewer Wrote: The saddest part of all is that the two little tykes prefer to listen to Vanilla Ice.

Oh, the humanity.

Now there's a valid reason to complain about exploitation of black culture Big Grin
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
(March 25, 2017 at 7:21 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Fred, is your problem that Madonna is adopting African children, or that she isn't adopting all African children?  Your motives seem confusing.

Boru

I think my posts on the issue are self explanatory.
It is a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies...(Ernesto Che' Guevara)
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RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
(March 25, 2017 at 7:57 am)Fred Hampton Wrote:
(March 25, 2017 at 7:21 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Fred, is your problem that Madonna is adopting African children, or that she isn't adopting all African children?  Your motives seem confusing.

Boru

I think my posts on the issue are self explanatory.

Apparently only to you.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
(March 25, 2017 at 8:35 am)mh.brewer Wrote:
(March 25, 2017 at 7:57 am)Fred Hampton Wrote: I think my posts on the issue are self explanatory.

Apparently only to you.

There's a really good reason for that.
It is a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies...(Ernesto Che' Guevara)
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#17
RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
The reason is this:

we can't solve our own problems, we can't make them solve our problems for us, so we can only wax indignant about why they try to do their own thing, and not feel guilty about what we want them to feel guilty about in such a way that they will solve for us the problems we can't solve ourselves.


Please note while most people have goodness, appealing to other people's goodness as the main way to solve your own major problems is probably a loser. If you don't know this, you will probably never solve your own bigger problems.
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RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
(March 25, 2017 at 8:49 am)Fred Hampton Wrote:
(March 25, 2017 at 8:35 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Apparently only to you.

There's a really good reason for that.

I agree.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#19
RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
I'm irked with Fred Hampton's inability to post a coherent narrative or position on his "evidence".

Slapping us with a bunch of quotes doesn't an argument make.

And unfortunately, I still don't see what's wrong on Madonna's part. If anything, I see an attempt to hold her accountable for the troubles of an entire continent.

That's not sensible.
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RE: Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi
(March 25, 2017 at 1:21 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: I'm irked with Fred Hampton's inability to post a coherent narrative or position on his "evidence".

Slapping us with a bunch of quotes doesn't an argument make.

And unfortunately, I still don't see what's wrong on Madonna's part. If anything, I see an attempt to hold her accountable for the troubles of an entire continent.

That's not sensible.

You've been around long enough to know that you don't need evidence to hold a belief.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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