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Originally Posted by Tanker
I heard her say in an interview
when she asks poor children in the US what they want they need they tell her and Ipod or the latest video game system
but when she asked poor children in South Africa what they needed they told her uniforms so they could go to school
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This is what I heard about this too. I sometimes catch The View in the mornings and they had the girls on there from that new movie coming out, Freedom Writers, and they said that they have had tremendous success educating these students in the USA that people say aren't teachable.
Of COURSE American kids are going to want Ipods and so on, all those fancy gadgets, all of their peers and the rich kids have that. In the places where Oprah is helping, they don't know the meaning of the word Ipod, they don't KNOW the things that the kids in the USA know...... so of course they are going to want something like clothes and education, they are an entire country in poverty.
I applaud what Oprah does with those kids, but to put the American kids out because they want what their peers have, that's just plain copout to me to use as an excuse not to help them. That's the thing with OUR kids, people that CAN help won't, they bail on them, the people that are SUPPOSED to care, well they can't be bothered to help, that's too much time involved, they can't be bothered with all that.
Alot of us parents DO spend time and effort to make sure our kids get an education, but when the parents fail, as often times they do now, WHO is there for them? Someone has to..... some people just shouldn't have kids at all, but that's kind of a mute point, they are here, so SOMEONE has to care enough to take the time to reach them.
That's just MY opinion and I apologize if it falls into an unpopular position, but dammit.... people need to pay attention to OUR people that don't have someone to pay attention to them on their own. It takes a Village to raise a child..... where is the village for these kids?