It’s definitely a dilemma. People are yaking about how the child will be raised. But I don’t think anyone wants to see him thrown into that kind of a life if he has a way out either. I can understand the reasons for thinking he should stay in his home country, but people should think twice, or at least once, before they spout off all reactionary. The boy has been given a chance at a life where every day will not be a fight for survival just getting to the market. Consider that.
But it wouldn’t have garnered her a lot of attention and raised her status in the eyes of a lot of people who should know better, especially after all the publicity stunts she’s committed oover the years. You can say all you want about how a little boy in a poor country was given a chance at a better life but I won’t believe it. Of course Madonna could have helped the father out - giving him enough money to get him back on his feet in that country would be a drop in the bucket to her, but that’s not what she was after. She is perhaps the most selfish and self-absorbed of the whole bunch of selfish and self-absorbed people in entertainment, and now she’s using a poor African child to make herself look good. How absolutely, utterly despicable.
So that makes it all okay, using a human being as a tool in a publicity stunt? It certainly does not. Nothing merits using a human being as an object for one’s own selfish purposes.
