African children are human, not objects of fashion trend

It seems like everyone is caught up in it. After all, it can't hurt those who do it and it can only help depict a positive, angel like image of you to the public. Especially if a person needs such image fixation badly and ASAP.

That person of the month, worthy of this image renovation is our famous "Queen of Pop" Madonna. Known for her outrageous but entertaining performances on stage, she still can't seem to rescue herself out of transgression. Of course, she does not need anyone saving her anymore since she has made herself the savior of the world. But hey, for those who still doubt her greatness & grandeur after her brave crucifixion performances, she saved her best for last by adopting a helpless Malawian baby. That is, a baby unable to save herself from a life long humiliation and isolation in exchange for eating more food.

Sure Madonna needed it badly. She has just finished a world wide tour of offending and degrading the religion of more than 2 billion people. By insulting Jesus Christ, she might have lost about 1/3rd of her fans. But she probably gained most of it back since what she did was the ultimate delight of Atheists of western nations, who make up more than 15% of their nations' population. Can we still call this the anti-crusade tour? Well, something like that. The difference is Jesus is also a respected & prized figure for another 1.1 billion of the world population of Islam. Few might argue that Muslims respect Christ more than Christians, but nobody can question how angry they get and how personal Muslims take it when their prophet Jesus Christ is insulted.

There is a saying “keeping up with the Jones.” I guess that can be changed to “keeping up with Jolie’s” since it seems adopting a helpless African baby is a new fashion trend for infamous celebrities and their likes. Just like Angelina Jolie, who also managed to get herself out of a deep hole the same way, Madonna just had to do it too. Especially when rumors that she adopted a baby spread out before she even decided to actually do it, she had no other choice. As the Americans say, she was stuck. But she does have millions and millions of dollars that it would seem to cost her almost nothing to raise one African baby. But who is counting? Forget about the baby's lifelong embarrassment for a second; is it an overstatement to say that she embarrassed a whole nation by doing this? Case in point, I have traveled many cities in America and met about five Ethiopians every week or so. But if you are an American, you wouldn't know you met an Ethiopian if you don't have the supernatural ability to detect an Ethiopian when you see one, like I do of course. They simply would lie to you and deny they are Ethiopians. The funniest moment I can recall was when I once asked an Ethiopian woman if she was from a certain town in Ethiopia by using one of our Ethiopian languages. Completely forgetting that I spoke to her in her own language, she replied to me in English saying "no, I am not Ethiopian, I am from Kenya." I was wondering how in the world she knew what I asked her if she wasn’t Ethiopian. Also one has to wonder how the woman concluded Kenya was better than Ethiopia since both are developing countries and equal in many ways. Somehow she found that being labeled Ethiopian is too embarrassing to admit.

Just embarrassing a nation or its people isn’t a small issue. It is not just an issue of an individual's pride being harmed. Especially if you are an Ethiopian, you sure know you have a lot of pride to begin with. After all, your country managed to defeat European colonization efforts two times. And it managed to defeat three other invasion attempts from non-European countries. Most of these occasions, your Ethiopian ancestors were using sticks to kill foreign invaders who attacked using guns. Even if you are a non-Ethiopian African, you still managed to free yourself after many years of being colonized by the likes of the British, French, and Italians etc.

Clearly, the road after the end of European colonization of Africa has been a rocky one for Africa. Adding to that have been the foreign policies of powerful nations that helps keep Africa poor and dependant. No magic here folks, and no supernatural ability is needed to see this one. We are clearly being colonized in a different but more destructive and venomous way. One can take a responsibility for his actions if no one else is influencing or affecting his actions. How can that person then be responsible for the actions that others are doing? Well for the confused Africans, it might appear like an invisible colonizer if you ask me. So with the internal economic crisis being created by foreign involvements, one of the only good things left for the new generation Africans, which is pride & nationalism, is now also being erased. The amount this humiliation harms the ability of the African countries to ignore yet another problem and come together as one, proud people remains to be analyzed. But we can be sure it is not helping us. For instance in Ethiopia, on one side, more and more ethnic groups try to separate themselves from the degrading label of being 'Ethiopian', on the other side Foreign Aid agencies spend 8 dollars of each 10 dollars they promise, for themselves (in return Africa gets to have puppet governments of course); while on the other side Western trade barriers and corrupt policies continue to destroy Ethiopian and African economies.

So how much is Madonna paying her publicist? He or she doesn't seem to have much creativity or sensitivity. A likely scenario, “Dear Madonna, you have made me one of the richest publicists on earth, but me and many others are having an ethical issue here. I just had a chat with my Angelina counterpart and she suggested that you should just adopt one of those African babies. Just do 'ene mine mo' and pick one baby- they are all impoverished. That should shut up your Christian critics, make you look compassionate, and oh I also got a phone call from CWA, DOVE adoptions, Inc. and Help the Children."