Rich White Woman's Burden

"The pop star told the talk show host Oprah Winfrey she was concerned the media portrayal of the adoption could discourage others from adopting African children and said it was "doing a great disservice to all the orphans of Africa, not just Malawi, by turning it into such a negative thing".

I would hope MadDonna's rehashed version of "whiteman’s burden" doesn’t turn Africa into a market for pedos, PR and status seekers, or an advertisement for the latest solution to liberal guilt. Seeing that money does allow one to be above the law in this area only points that the problem is not one of saving the children but in saving the people from those that see children as a market product. Haven't enough black families been dislocated and broken up? We have in this case a very rich white woman claiming to want to help the child. Yet she rips it away from a father who held out hope he could one day better himself for that child. Money seemed no object to create an addition to her family and frankly it should not have been one in keeping a family together, if her goal was indeed one of caring about Africa and African children.

MadDonna made her a large part of her money from the inner-city ghettos of America. She in fact broadcast her version of a material world to the people here that after making her a rich caring savior of the African race (at least this month), she seems to ignore. We have many orphans right here in this country in need of a home, orphanages and child care centre’s in need of support. But instead MadDonna seems to only care that the clubs and crack houses are playing her version of a fast aging "Cher".

I guess however our orphans aren’t hip enough for the material girl to care about.

MadDonna, has worked the media for the last thirty years, she is working it now... but for the children’s sake we need to take to control of what is really going on in the child markets of Africa, one would think such a market of people for sale could never exist given our history.