Thursday, November 02, 2006

Rant: The Material Mom


David Banda, the one-year-old boy Madonna is adopting from Malawi, Africa has been wearing one of those red string Kabbalah bracelets. Madonna’s rep, Liz Rosenberg, confirms that the tyke, has, indeed, donned the trademark trinket of the offshoot of Judaism, which according to Kabbalah literature, fends off “the unfriendly stare and unkind glances we sometimes get from people around us.” Regarding David’s wearing the red string, one Kabbalah insider explained: “There’s been so much evil eye sent in the direction of David and his mother that he needs this protection.”

Ok so, after reading that little piece of gossip, I thought to myself, do we care? Should we care? I'm glad that Madonna did something good and adopted this child and I respect her as a performer and artist but honestly, enough is enough. I'm sick of hearing about it everywhere. Just because she is Madonna, we are constantly bombarded with stories about the adoption. There are people everywhere, who are not celebrities, that take it upon themselves to adopt children from third world countries. Why do celebrities have to be glorified for doing what others have? It's not like they invented it. On another note, people are throwing so much hate at her for causing publicity for herself through the adoption yet Angelina Jolie is glorified as a saint. That's just insane.

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