If I had $40 mil, I’ll spend it any damn way I like – even on a school

I had no problem with Ophra sending money to Mother Africa for the girls school. Anything to help our fellow brothers and sister there. I heard on Roland’s show that morning that somebody else didn’t have a problem either but how come she didn’t do the same for the boys as well. No big deal to me but it’s a start.

I must say that I agree with Oprah about the attitudes toward education of SOME/MANY inner city students. I retired two years ago as a high school English teacher and I had become discouraged and just plain tired of trying to motivate students who worked forty hours a week to buy cars, cell phones, and other things that they HAD to have and were uninterested in what I was teaching.

Now there were those who wanted to learn, but they were in the monority. So I applaud Oprah for building the school for students who had a passion for learning, however, I think she could have done it more economically. But, like she said,”It’s her money.”

I do not think Oprah is escaping to Africa. There is a greater need there than here, and her monies should be very well spent there. You say she should scold the parents and not the children. This situation is not quite that simple. It’s roots are in the culture, and to actively change that for the better would require a systematic approach by the various systems involved, schools, governments, churches, media, etc. How do we go about effecting such a collaboration?

Funny how Oprah can spend her money as she likes and it is okay (which I completely support) but American’s that have chosen to spend their money on a secured adoption from China are racists…. Double standard huh????

Star – you are dead on. Mr. Martin practices and advocates a plethora of double standards in his speaking engagements and writings.

I have implored him to write a blog topic on his stance on International Adoption, the one he so vehemently defended on Paula Zahn’s show (not once, but twice).

He seems hesitant to put his feelings in writing on that one – even though he was so impassioned about them while on national TV.

All we can do, as member’s of the International Adoption community, is call attention to his racist, degrading. disparaging remakrs and hope he can learn something from it and be big enough to apologize for his insensitivity towards others.

Check out Oprah’s XM Satellite Radio channel on http://www.xmradio.com. She invited me on the show to discuss the building of her school and the subsequent criticism that she received. You can get a free, three-day trial to XMRadio.com by visiting the site.

Oh yea, the show aired on Thursday, and will likely repeat.

I see Oprah as being very grounded in who she is and where she came from. In her program on the opening of the school she very explictly demonstrated how she came from Mississippi and lived with her grandmother in very much the same circumstances as many of the South African girls. I liked how she invited her friends and collegues to Africa to witness the opening and celebrate the new year. It was clear that many were moved, including Chris Rock, who said he might have to open a school for boys so the girls will have someone to marry. Such events call attention to the issue of inequalities in education in general and Africa in particular. Whether in the communities of Chicago or the communities of South Africa, children need a safe and secure place to be all they can be. As an educator in Chicago who has visited schools in Africa, Jamaica and Colombia, South America, I agree with Oprah on the sense of fulfillment that you feel when you witness youth who take education seriously. I plan to buy the DVD, show it to my students, and work to expose more US students to the life of students of African descent around the world.

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