The RETURN of Philosophical Ramblings: Different Races, Different Prices
For example, adopting a white Russian baby with blue eyes will probably cost more than a mixed child from Guatemala.
"It's the free market," my friend told me, as he explained the situation.
According to him, if you wanted to adopt a baby from the islands, the MINIMUM cost is $11,000 ... and that doesn't include the years of paperwork and hassle.
"First, you have to pay an attorney here in the States. You have to undergo psychological review ... background check. And that's just here. In the islands, you have to pay a lawyer THERE to get the ball rolling on that end. And THEN you have to deal with immigration. It's a mess."
Now, if you're choosy about a baby ... and that baby's race is in HIGH DEMAND ... well, guess what? You're paying more.
"And the wait is longer ... five years," he said.
I told him that the whole thing seemed wrong. It reminded me of the slave trade. However, I had to admit that the adopted child is being helped, regardless of the surrounding circumstances ... but, then again, what about the children whose race is in low demand?
Damn. They're just forgotten children. They're chaff, as far as the richest people in the world (us) are concerned. Not even chaff. Less than chaff. Not even in our frame of reference. Not in our thoughts. Forgotten.
But, hey ... those kids need to be rugged individualists, right? They need to RUSH to excellence. That's right -- overcome dirty water, zero education, a language the world doesn't speak, an ethnic race with no lobbyists on capital hill demanding assistance on your behalf... good luck!
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Speaking of forgotten kids ... I heard that Barack Obama's brother was interviewed for this month's Vanity Fair. Here's a segment of the article that talked about the interview:
The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of
Nairobi.
Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.
"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."
According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.
Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.
He told the magazine: "I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist."
Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.
"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said.
Labels: adoption, ethnic, philosophy, race, ramblings
posted by Skew | Wednesday, August 20, 2008
13 Comments:
Thank goodness Bruce was at that circus.
Tony, thanks for not making any judgments about Obama's half-brother living like that.
I don't see how a man can be responsible for the financial well-being of his half-brothers.
To me, paying more for a certain race is unethical.
They should make adoption a purely RANDOM process, like when you have a natural child and you don't know if you're having a boy or girl ... who the child will look like, etc.
You dolt! If the adoption process is random, people won't adopt! WE want the freedom to choose what we want! How dare you judge us? What are you, a commie?
I don't need to make any judgments -- the analogy between forgotten children and Obama's half-brother is enough to condemn Barack.
That's right, Tony.
I mean, it's one thing if you make less than $100 grand in the U.S., and your relatives in poor circumstances keep asking you for money, thinking you're rich. Those poor relatives don't UNDERSTAND that you have to own two cars, live in a big house, pay $13 grand a year for preschool so you and your wife can both work, pay $15 grand a year for rent in a poorly kept townhome at Village in Welleby, pay car insurance b/c the government tells you to, pay for health insurance, etc., etc.
The poor relatives don't understand that with all that great income comes great expenses.
BUT -- if you're Barack Obama, and over the past five to ten years you've been rolling in dough, making close to a million dollars a year between him and his wife ... well, damn! Help out your blood, man. Know what I'm sayin'?
Obama says he's going to help out the little guy here, and he won't help out his own BLOOD living in a shack with a ski-cap on. That's wrong. And that ain't right.
Each country's adoption fees are different. Tell your friend to do some more research- every THIRD WORLD country is like that. Your buddy just wants to cry about racial injustice.
Obama supporters are going to be giving you some heat, Vahl- as an African American, you should support him.
I think his friend was Chris Rock.
You know family members...give them a little, they ask for more. Obama is supposed to take care of every half-brother, half-sister, 3rd cousin, great uncle, and distance niece?
Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton's half-brothers were LOSERS. Maybe Obama's half-brother is a LOSER, too.
Your welcome, Dick.
Now put on that suit and bend over. I got something for you.
as anyone asked themselves what kind of issues and stories will the rePUBICans use to lay waste to the obama trainwreck?
stories like his brother of course...anyone knows his brother? paternal brother of course...George Hussein Onyango Obama...he's 26 and living in kenia on $1 a month in an 8 by 12 makeshift wood shack in the huruma slum of nairobi, the capital...ashamed of his personal situation and constanly afraid to reveal who he is for fear of being targeted,in spite of having a powerful, famous and wealthy brother in the states...
so first and foremost they can distance obama from the american identity, what, a president with a BROTHER living in kenia??? is he kenian or american? what are his true allegiances???
or they can "sympathize" (like they actually give a shit, rePUBICans...) with this unfortunate brother of his and depict their relationship in true colors...you mean he has a brother living in misssery and he hasn't done anything to help him?? i mean, his own blood for christ sake?? conveniently abandoned to his misfortune in an unforgiving environment just because...he's his late father's seed from another marriage?? still his blood...shameful if you asked me, since it's NOT like a WHOLE family to help, ONLY a misserable brother, how low can you go???
the second time democrats are handed the presidency and congress on a silver plater with all the trimmings and they manage to fuck it up, AGAIN...unreal...they don't deserve shit.
HAVE THE DAY OF YOUR CHOICE Y'ALL...i'll be having a rotten day myself, thank you, the stupidity of it all...
PS: how am i gonna vote?...against any and all incumbents across the board...
Thank the white man for that freedom of speech you just enjoyed, because without us you wouldn't have it.
I will vote for Obama, because this country has gone to SHIT- our dollar value has gone to SHIT- our HOME values have gone to SHIT -under a WHITE administration! McBush is 4 more years of SHIT!!
now think about that you redneck idiots!
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