The Supreme Court of Appeal in Malawi has put, what is hopefully, the final nail into the coffin of Madonna’s distasteful PR campaign of adopting African children.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I think adoption is a great and completely under-rated tool when it comes to increasing one’s family. I also don’t personally have anything against Madonna, or at least I didn’t until now. I have a problem with ignoring the needs of children inNorth America who live in poverty, misery, abuse, and malnutrition because it doesn’t have the same PR potential. One plane trip to Africa with her entourage would probably feed a hungry North American child for life. It could probably also put an underpriviledged young adult through college.
Over the last few decades as the problems in Africa have become better publicized due to concerts, charity work, and Hollywood, anything to do with that country gives you instant street cred as a humanitarian. Madonna has always been a supremely intelligent opportunist, and her tongue-swapper on stage with Britney Spears, during Brit’s breif period of mental illness, is proof of this fact. Yet no one called on her for exploiting Britney Spears’ clearly vulnerable mental state for the sake of publicity and a great photo op. If it was a male performer in his 50s open mouth kissing a 20 year old on national television, the headlines would have been pretty base and predictably exploitative.
Justice was done here, and I really trully do hope that this child has a good life without her.
