Madonna Criticized For Adopting An African Boy

But what else can we do other than talk about it on public forums on the internet or with our friendsthis is sadreally!

The person that wrote that rubbish is a big fat fool that has never done anything for anybody( not you  sisisisi )
Ever mother and Father brings up their kids in their own religion.
Madonna has the right to do the same.
The way she picked the boy is the same way all pick their kids that go to an orphanage.
But when madonna dose it its a crime.
That woman has done more for people than those opening their mouth to shout.
Were dose she know the boys father to give him the money. maybe he will drink the money or waste it.#
She wants to help the boy not so.
To give the father the money will mean opening a save trust or something like that.
Well in one point  i most say if you take a child from another country, its good to let him still know his tradition . and were he comes from.

 i did agreed with u. why a black boy when there's alot of white children all over europe and america . modern slavery in diguise, we blacks are not for sale, let her buy an elephant either or better still monkey.

Raymand  Brad Pitt will not come to my house to buy  my child.#
Did the father not throw his child away because he was poor.
Madonna picked that child in a Bin or what do you think an orphanage is?
By the way what do you know about my mentality and what dose this have to do with slavery.
And who is us . are you a slave.?
It is your Mentality that will not allow Nigeria to progress.
If you are not the one making it, then no one should make it.
The little boy was sitting in his bin till Madonna came. all of a sudden enemy of progress appear and shout our son.
It is because of people like you that we were slaves ., because people like you just looked on and did nothing about it,.

Dose the word sin of omission tell you some thing.
What have you done for anybody .?

i hate listening to bullshit. whoever wrote that article on post #1 let me ask, all those legal gurus and moral angels fighting madonna, where were they when madonna was being "sluttish" and nasty globally. where was the media hype then? now this "slut" is about to do something nice. for once, and it happens to be a project to liberate one kid from the ramshackles of excruciating poverty and suddenly there are all sorts of human rights/child welfare battles. haba.

all those who are fighting "for the right of the child" what have they been doing when the child was living in squalor? how have they tried to help the child. is madonna going to kill the child.

let me tell u this. it is all about racism. i read from a british newspaper yesterday where a commentator was saying if madonna was too desperate to adopt a child why wont she adopt among the many orphans in Britain. so these guys are jealous that a poor black african is coming to go to the best schools in the UK and probably be a famous(he is already famous-david banda/ madonna and son/ )person in the future.

when will the west accept that africans are humans too?

Man!  Listen to the hypocrites we are!!  If all these celebrities were adopting babies from China, Eastern Europe, etc. and not from Africa, we all would be like, 'why don't they want to adopt an african baby?  is it b/c their black?? racist!!'   (trust me, i've heard this in the past).  Now we have celebrities doing that and we are being critical, of what?

that article is by some classless writer from the post who has nothing better to do than rid on Madonna.  The grandfather himself says he rather have the child live a better life.  I'm not saying all poor african children should be adopted by rich white foreigners but what is the problem when this happens?  There are many people here in the US. who are poor and give their baby for adoption for a better life.  If any of us were in a dirt poor situation where our child could grow up in a better life, we most likley would.  (plus u never know any arrangements for the family to see the child periodically).

Drusilla,

Please tell us you are joking you are making me feel depressed.

You think some superstar bouncing around in her underwear will be a good mother or even give a sh*t about anyone but herself?

She has only done this for publicity and her own ego.

Life and death are not a matter for the media.

Adoption is wrong and that can never be changed.

We can't just make up our bloodlines as we go along.

Makes me feel sick.

But this is not all that matters is it? What really makes for a proper, non-dysfunctional up-bringing, material opulence or the human element? (whatever that is ). Will Madonna be there?


Not a bad suggestion, but to "sponsor" is different from adopting--yanking away, as it were. Its a complicated issue, but knowing the history we know about Africa and the West, "shopping" for African infants in the manner Madonna has done could easily deteriorate into the next sleek version of the slave trade. What we need to be thinking about now is how to empower the remaining human capital of the continent, IN the continent rather than further depleting its manpower to the West. If this "shopping" for African children becomes a trend (first it was Jolie, now Madonna), it will quickly become another form of collective exploitation. The child--the individual, may or may not be happy in his/her new life, but it is doubtful that the long term effects can ever be good for the continent as a whole. Read this link Drusilla, I am interested in your take on the story. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6044294.stm

@To all





Are these well thought out responses? These responses sound rather impulsive.

 How can we advocate and justify that it is okay to remove a child from it's home and all the child knows as home to come over seas to now live with rich white people? How can we do that?

Weather you realize it or not, this is trophy slavery. Those poor children are nothing but a trophy for people who need poor and desperate children in their life to make them feel as though they have done at least one right human thing in life.

With all the money that rich people have, they should not be removing these children from the only family they know, instead they should be using their money to sponsor the family's as a whole in order so that the children can be with their real family's.

Think about it, those children will grow up thinking, why couldn't I have been with my real family? Then, when they find out how poor and wretched their real family was, as they look around at all the richness they now with their new family, how do you think that is going to affect the mind of that child?

Angelina Jolee don't have a clue about raising a black child and Madonna does not either.

These women are not doing something great, what they are doing is justifying to the world that these children and their family's don't deserve to make a life for their self, but on the other hand, we will take the children off of their hands.

These people will keep making baby's, so what is going to happen, are rich people going to keep taking them like they are little trophy's or items in a candy store? It is not right I don't care what you say.


The only difference between taking the African slaves and so called helping poor African children is, these children won't have to work in the fields but they will lose almost everything the descendants of African slaves lost. A sense of home, belongingess and a sense of well being.

Also, did you know that Black American children in foster homes are the least wanted for adoption? People in America want the Asian and white children. As a result, the foster homes are over flooding with black children. Now, you know they just passed a law that say's homosexuals can adopt children? But, guess what Children they are pond-ing off on these homosexuals, yes, our black children. They showed this documentary with all these gay white people who adopted these children, the gay people got together to celebrate the children they had adopted. Guess what? Although their were a few black girls who had been adopted by gay white women, it was mostly little black boys who were adopted by two gay white men.

Under no circumstances, It is never right to take a child from his or hers roots.

AA people have their own children and a host of other issues related to slavery as a result, they are not interested in taking on some elses problem (so they think in their minds) But, the answer is not to give these children to gay couples. If anything, they should send the AA children that don't have a home here in America back to Africa and sponsor a family to take care of that child. Or, send them to another part of the America, north south etc.; to be with black familys' that want them. This could be a part of reperations. Instead of giving us money or pacifiers, by any means necessary,  keep us with our roots when your system fails us. This way, the child will still be in his or hers roots and that child may get all that he or she needs to end the issues that result from slavery.

Our black children don't need no more reasons for self hate. Black people need each other and white people who think they are being nice, or being human. They need to rethink what it means to be nice and what it means to be human. It is never acceptable to remove a child from that child's roots.

Modified: My post came in late because the system was running slow. Drusilla I see that  withdrew what you originall said.

lets not make another slave trend out of this.
The Boys father gave him up and no one can tell me his fa ther was the only family he had.
I cannot think that any one would give a father that threw his child away money to look after that child.

so those criticising madonna want to tell us they love the child more than his grand dad/dad? the child's father is not complaining. why should we? come to europe and u see millions of africans who are living in squalor trying to eke out a living they could not get back home, yet they would rather remain in europe where they have hope. are htey not missing their family and culture? yet they stay back.many of them have no papers and can't travel back home yet.

poverty is terrible. extreme poverty is extremely terrible. make no mistake, people do a lot to get out of poverty and now madonna is helping this kid out of poverty of the worst category, on a platter of Gold. and people are complaining. i don't get it.

the child is fine, his family has no qualms, it is a good thing, end of story, HABA.

so u want the child back in malawi? so u can send occasional bags of rice and drop it from an aeroplane (with CNN showing it live) to the villages the way one drops grains for birds in a zoo or poultry?

STUPID

Nobody has the right to give up a child, but unfortunately if a child is given up, any sane person that has the desire and the capabilities of bringing up such child can adopt the child end of story. The world has always had these culture that allows families in need of children to be able to adopt children, bearing in mind that there are people who goes to the extreme of giving up children, the Madonna's boy is not the first ever child adopted in this world and would not be the last, and should not be connected with slavery or we might have to classify any adopted child as a slave. Do people really believe in these illusion of people sponsoring families to bring up their own children?, very unfortunate am a realist and don't chase dreams that I or any one can't turn into reality, kapeesh.

Alarinjo & Sista,

Thanks for the teachings. I want to learn more and get smarter.

Yes, I wonder too why she did not sponsor the family instead.  From what I've read so far, the father had wanted to take the boy back once his financial situation would have had improved.

@Somegirl



She didn't sponsor the Family becuase she thinks that she is already doing the family a favor by taking the child off their hands. Thing about it, if she would have sponsored the family, she could have written it off in her taxes. She doesn't see the bigger picture or she doesn't care to see the bigger picture. One rich person, say (like bill gates) and the rest of rich people, they need to pull together and get rid of half of their riches, if they did, they could stop global starvation and poverty. This world does not belong to the rich, it belongs to all of us. If rich people outnumber poor people, that means that they are the ones who get more or the most out of the resources this planet gives us to survive, the resources should be used as needed for everyone.

@Donzman



That was my point, these people are not going to stop having children. So, in many ways we are telling them let a rich person take your child and if you keep having them and a rich person wants that child too, let them have that one as well.

Then, when people like me complain, they say

"well those people keep having baby's, they know they are poor, why do thye keep having baby's?")

Out of that un natural way of attitude and way of thinking gets born this type of attitude,

"They should stop having sex then if they know they can not afford to take care of the children they might have."

You see what I am saying? The situation will get worse and worse and people are not being made accountable  for why in the hell are these people living in poverty in the first place. Africa is to rich to be having humans that are living in poverty and starving, what is that all about? I could go into that but I won't.   

@Toshman


I understand what you are saying but you are missing the point.

African people should not be living in poverty, that is the real problem right there. Africa is to rich to have people living like this. This is the problem we all need to deal with. Look at it from a global perspective. We are not solving the poverty problem. Even if rich people keep adopting these children, that is not going to end poverty in Africa. Adoption is only masking the problem but behind the mask the problem is still there. If we continue to say that it is better for a child to be adopted and taken away from it's family, we are in essence saying that the rich will always win and the poor stay poor and wretched. This is building a division. people are not being accountable. We are not trying get rid of poverty, instead we exploit the people who are living in poverty.

We don't try to help them to be able to take care of their self and then we take from them the only thing that belongs to them because they can't ake care of it, their children.

Let's say that all rich people made the decision to keep adopting all the children who live in poverty. When those adopted children get older and find out why they were adopted, what type of generation of pyschology do you think might develop in those children?