Playa Hatin' on Madonna

[Political Tiger]

Let's cut the bull. The issue is not Mercy James. That's the four year old Malawian orphan girl who Madonna wants to adopt. The issue is Madonna. Whether their motive is revulsion, disgust, secret wish fulfillment, sexism, or just plain, garden variety envy, legions just flat out loathe Madonna. Or in the street vernacular, there's a thriving growth industry in playa hatin' on Madonna.

This writer became painfully aware of that after my piece "Madonna Deserves Cheers not Jeers for casting the ugly glare on Africa's adoption misery" hit the web. The calls, letters, emails, and shots from Madonna's sex book, and her on stage at times sado-masochistic antics poured in. The idea was to remind me that Madonna is an ego maniacal, crotch grabbing, whacked out on stage porno and fast buck exhibitionist who no one with a shred of decency could possibly think could be a fit mother, especially a fit mother to a black kid.

The rants were against me, Madonna, and those Malawians who cheered Madonna; which by the way as every poll and survey has shown is just about everyone in Malawi from top officials down to the beggar on the street to Mercy's grandparents, relatives and caregivers. They all applaud Madonna for taking a personal and humanitarian interest in Malawi's one million orphans.

The Madonna playa haters are absolutely unfazed by the millions of dollars that she has raised for her Raise Malawi organization. They pooh pooh the international attention that she's brought to a country that ranks near dead last on nearly every social and economic measure for developing countries. This is a country which nearly all the Madonna loathers thought was another way of saying Malarky, hadn't heard of and couldn't find on a map before Madonna tossed the spotlight on the dire poverty in the country. The haters air brush off Madonna's plans to bankroll a school for orphan girls in the country.

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2009/04/playa-hatin-on-madonna-001753.php

[AndyA]

1. Does anyone know anything about the kids Madonna already has?

Are they problems? :shrug:

Just asking...because I don't recall hearing anything about them. Perhaps they're still too young, but social issues and behavioral problems can start at a pretty young age.

Could it be she's a pretty good Mom despite her stage persona?

[MADem]

2. There are plenty of needy children in the USA and UK. Why must she

go to countries that are poor and try to take advantage of their lax adoption system and bribable government officials?

Why take a kid away who has a grandmother living nearby who strenuously objects to the adoption? Why strip a child of her language and culture?

I find the collecting of "designer babies" offensive. That IS what she appears to be doing. And that's not "playa hatin'" (stupid term, that). That's calling a self-absorbed, nanny hiring (three of 'em, at minimum wage) famous person who is not, by all accounts, raising the children she already has a self-indulgent person.

An absent mother who runs around the world "performing" isn't there for her kids. Kids deserve a stable home life and at least one parent at home. She's just dumped this latest husband, the kids she has are no doubt already traumatized, they don't need more bullshit.


I also find the gratuitous interjection of race into the objections (since Madonna had already adopted a black child) crafted by this author very curious. When natural objections (yes, she is an exhibitionist, an absent mother, self indulgent, flaky with the Kabballah shit, etc., etc.) make the case all by themselves, blame it all on the race card. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!!!

Earl Otafi Hutchinson is mistaken on another front, too. And it's because he's not all that young, either. Madonna DOES need the "cheap pub." Madonna may be famous, but to the young kids, she's an old bag, frankly. She's regarded the way Beatles fans and Elvis afficionados in the early sixties viewed, say, Judy Garland--she's that old lady who winds up in the tabloids, who sings.

She does seem to be making this adoption effort quite public for purposes of her own publicity. If she wants to bankroll schools in the country of Malawi, out of the goodness of her wealthy heart, she should just do it, and not demand the blood sacrifice of a designer baby in exchange. If she really wants to help that kid, help the grandmother so that she is able to afford to bring her grandchild home. Why the need to "possess" another human being?


She is getting the same crap that Angelina Jolie got, and for the same reasons. There are plenty of people who think that "Brangelina" collecting exotic kids from Cambodia and Vietnam was wrong--and of course, she has to get "the smartest and brightest" kids, and won't even let them keep their own birth names.

http://www.usmagazine.com/angelinas_adoption_what_you_havent_heard

It's pure hubris. Collecting little human pets, cutting them off from their cultures and languages, making them the "ethnic exceptions" in a sea of white faces.... because they can.

Good grief. If Madonna wants another baby, she should get one from one of her "home" countries. Stop collecting kids from far and wide like they are zoo animals. She's no Josephine Baker.

[Boomerang Diddle]

4. I take it you're not a fan?

:hide:

[MADem]

5. I can snap my fingers to that sorta drekky stuff she pumps out.

The old stuff, anyway--where they used the machine so she wouldn't sound off key. I thought she did OK in "Evita" too.

But that doesn't mean I think what she's trying to do by collecting pet children is a good idea. If she wants to help the kid, help her. Do it selflessly. Don't try to "own" the child.

If she HAS to collect a little melanin-enhanced child, why not get one from America or the UK. Better still, get one with a disability--a kid who might benefit from all that "Madonna Money" and could get him or herself some good care for his condition.

Of course, such a child might be "less than perfect." Can't have that, I guess?

[bemildred]

3. On the one hand, I don't see how what she is doing is bad.

I mean having secure access to plenty of food is good.

On the other hand I have never cared a fig about Madonna.

And it's not clear to me how bashing Madonna helps poor people in the 3rd world.

So on the whole I consider this whole argument to be drivel.