7 Texas Kids Found in Nigeria Orphanage

[Fred Quimby]

WTF is wrong with people?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...doned_children

[twistyneck]

lol. That reminds me of that South Park episode with Starvin' Marvin.

[C_U_Next_Tuesday]

very sad..

[Joe Citizen]

Originally posted by C_U_Next_Tuesday
very sad..

for the Nigerian orphans... yes.

[Fletch XXX]

all the shit going on over there and THIS is what bothers you people?

hahaha

police are raping and slaughtering refugees but oh fucking no, some kids from texas are starving.

ignore the rest of the shit going on but good lord, PLEASE PROTECT THESE KIDS!!!!

I understand the issue, but it never fails. 100+ women raped and killed, no thread about. 7 hungry kids and the world must pause

[iwantchixx]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
all the shit going on over there and THIS is what bothers you people?

hahaha

police are raping and slaughtering refugees but oh fucking no, some kids from texas are starving.

ignore the rest of the shit going on but good lord, PLEASE PROTECT THESE KIDS!!!!

I understand the issue, but it never fails. 100+ women raped and killed, no thread about. 7 hungry kids and the world must pause

jesus christ man, does it make this thing about the kids any less worthy of attention? So these kids are not deservant of attention or help becuase other bad things happen?

What if you got sick and were deathly ill and came to the board to let people know. Should your thread be deleted becuase there are worse off people everywhere else in the world?

Should a starving family down the block not get help because there are women raped somewhere nearby on a daily?

Man you can be so damn negative. Does anything at all please you besides finding the darkness in everything?

[Fletch XXX]

Originally posted by iwantchixx
jesus christ man, does it make this thing about the kids any less worthy of attention? So these kids are not deservant of attention or help becuase other bad things happen?

What if you got sick and were deathly ill and came to the board to let people know. Should your thread be deleted becuase there are worse off people everywhere else in the world?

Should a starving family down the block not get help because there are women raped somewhere nearby on a daily?

Man you can be so damn negative. Does anything at all please you besides finding the darkness in everything?

I said I understand the issue i just dont understan how you hypocrits PICK AND CHOOSE what you report about on GFY.

where were you this week when Police raped and killed refugees?

probably out getting fast food, now go feel sorry for the kids and forget about the raped and killed women.

people who pick and choose news like this are the problem, not me.

[Fred Quimby]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
all the shit going on over there and THIS is what bothers you people?

hahaha

police are raping and slaughtering refugees but oh fucking no, some kids from texas are starving.

ignore the rest of the shit going on but good lord, PLEASE PROTECT THESE KIDS!!!!

I understand the issue, but it never fails. 100+ women raped and killed, no thread about. 7 hungry kids and the world must pause

Dude,,,their mom abandoned them in a foreign country.

[Rich]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
all the shit going on over there and THIS is what bothers you people?

hahaha

police are raping and slaughtering refugees but oh fucking no, some kids from texas are starving.

ignore the rest of the shit going on but good lord, PLEASE PROTECT THESE KIDS!!!!

I understand the issue, but it never fails. 100+ women raped and killed, no thread about. 7 hungry kids and the world must pause

[Fletch XXX]

Originally posted by Rich

glad someone can GRASP common sense.

its the NEWS to blame, NOT ME.

these reporters write this crap to fuel the devout sheep.

100+ women raped and killed by po9lice in africa, no thread about it. Let a kid swallow a cellphone and it will be on the news more than the rape, dont blame me, blame your fucking media.

[axelcat]

sad

[Fletch XXX]

where is your concern?

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/594/594p16.htm

2000 people die a day in sudan, where are the threads about it?

think no kids are dying?

"Despite their public ?resolve? and ?care? for the people of western Sudan, Western governments are allowing more than 2000 hungry and sick Darfuris to die every single day for want of urgently needed food, medicines and shelter. "

my point is simple, hopefully a few of you can grasp it.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX


my point is simple, hopefully a few of you can grasp it.

let me state it for those who wont be able to get it.

if this was 7 black nigerians you wouldnt give a fuck.

but its texas kids so make a thread about it.

meanwhile, 100 black kids just died.

no one gave a fuck, no one heard their screams.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally posted by iwantchixx
jesus christ man, does it make this thing about the kids any less worthy of attention? So these kids are not deservant of attention or help becuase other bad things happen?

What if you got sick and were deathly ill and came to the board to let people know. Should your thread be deleted becuase there are worse off people everywhere else in the world?

Should a starving family down the block not get help because there are women raped somewhere nearby on a daily?

Man you can be so damn negative. Does anything at all please you besides finding the darkness in everything?

I also understand the issue and it is sad but what about the non-American kids in nigeria that are in poor conditions..we don't care about them.

[sean416]

Originally posted by Joe Citizen
for the Nigerian orphans... yes.

No kidding, what about all the other kids who werent americans..

[Zerof8]

You know everyone wants to bitch about us going to fight a war that was none of our business but when they want help then we should step in fuck that shit. No we shouldnt be in Iraq but we also shouldnt be every fuckin place else in the world helping everyone. We should look after our own people and let them do the same

[sean416]

Originally posted by Zerof8
You know everyone wants to bitch about us going to fight a war that was none of our business but when they want help then we should step in fuck that shit. No we shouldnt be in Iraq but we also shouldnt be every fuckin place else in the world helping everyone. We should look after our own people and let them do the same

well, if anything this thread has shown your understanding of world issues is minimal.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally posted by Zerof8
You know everyone wants to bitch about us going to fight a war that was none of our business but when they want help then we should step in fuck that shit. No we shouldnt be in Iraq but we also shouldnt be every fuckin place else in the world helping everyone. We should look after our own people and let them do the same

Okay and that has what to do with any points in this thread?

[goBigtime]

Originally posted by iwantchixx
jesus christ man, does it make this thing about the kids any less worthy of attention? So these kids are not deservant of attention or help becuase other bad things happen?

What if you got sick and were deathly ill and came to the board to let people know. Should your thread be deleted becuase there are worse off people everywhere else in the world?

Should a starving family down the block not get help because there are women raped somewhere nearby on a daily?

Man you can be so damn negative. Does anything at all please you besides finding the darkness in everything?

Three of the children were hospitalized with malaria and later released, said CPS spokeswoman Estella Olguin. The all were thin and covered with mosquito bites and scars, officials said.


Ok so 7 Texas kids are all fucked up in this orphanage.... anyone think about the state of health of the rest of the kids in that orphanage??

After all, we (the US) are the country of liberators no? Shouldn't we be helping all of those poor little orphans?

[unconnected]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
where is your concern?

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/594/594p16.htm

2000 people die a day in sudan, where are the threads about it?

think no kids are dying?

"Despite their public ?resolve? and ?care? for the people of western Sudan, Western governments are allowing more than 2000 hungry and sick Darfuris to die every single day for want of urgently needed food, medicines and shelter. "

my point is simple, hopefully a few of you can grasp it.

My thoughts exactly here.
They get in the news and people care about them because they are white and in Africa, yet the 10 million or so kids that died in the past few years from starvation don't get mentioned anywhere and no one gives a fuck.. 10 million compared to SEVEN.. The sad thing is that for most it is out of sight out of mind.. if it ain't in the news(which black african kids dying left right and center are not) then no one gives a rats ass
That is what is fundementally wrong with the world, and why it is such a shitty place..

[NoCarrier]

Vincent: Max, six billion people on the planet, you're getting bent out of shape cause of one fat guy.
Max: Well, who was he?
Vincent: What do you care? Have you ever heard of Rwanda?
Max: Yes, I know Rwanda.
Vincent: Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max?
Max: What?
Vincent: Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Greenpeace, or something? No. I off one fat Angelino and you throw a hissy fit.
Max: Man, I don't know any Rwandans.
Vincent: You don't know the guy in the trunk, either.

[gregtx]

sorry... I think most missed the story was about.. 7 kids were abandond in a foreign country by their guardian/mother.. sorry but this is just as newsworthy as a pro baseketball player accused of rape...

pretty amazing to think they had to prove they were really from the states and that they made it back alive.. considering the conditions... nice to see our leaders take actions and get the job finished...

[gregtx]

Originally posted by unconnected
My thoughts exactly here.
They get in the news and people care about them because they are white and in Africa, yet the 10 million or so kids that died in the past few years from starvation don't get mentioned anywhere and no one gives a fuck.. 10 million compared to SEVEN.. The sad thing is that for most it is out of sight out of mind.. if it ain't in the news(which black african kids dying left right and center are not) then no one gives a rats ass
That is what is fundementally wrong with the world, and why it is such a shitty place..

maybe I missed it.. but I don't remember the article saying the kids were "white"...

[goBigtime]

Originally posted by gregtx
maybe I missed it.. but I don't remember the article saying the kids were "white"...

But everyone in Texas is white and looks like this no?

You would have thought they would have figured out the mistake earlier what with the chaps and spurs.


(I agree.)

[strats]

whats going on in iraq, the raping and killings, all done under by the hand of american soldiers.

Thats what they think of america. And you sit back and suck off the country jizz when they program your mind through the television, and you think thats life. You are a pathetic piece of shit .

[Rich]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
where is your concern?

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/594/594p16.htm

2000 people die a day in sudan, where are the threads about it?

think no kids are dying?

"Despite their public ?resolve? and ?care? for the people of western Sudan, Western governments are allowing more than 2000 hungry and sick Darfuris to die every single day for want of urgently needed food, medicines and shelter. "

my point is simple, hopefully a few of you can grasp it.

I'm with you 100%. Somehow Lacy Peterson gets thousands of hours of news coverage but genocide in poor countries isn't worth our time.

[Brujah]

The difference is that 7 texas kids found in a nigerian orphanage isn't typical or usual. That's why it's bigger news. Not more important news, but more unusual news.

[DrewKole]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
all the shit going on over there and THIS is what bothers you people?

hahaha

police are raping and slaughtering refugees but oh fucking no, some kids from texas are starving.

ignore the rest of the shit going on but good lord, PLEASE PROTECT THESE KIDS!!!!

I understand the issue, but it never fails. 100+ women raped and killed, no thread about. 7 hungry kids and the world must pause

this upsets me greatly Fletch...

seriously.

[Rochard]

Originally posted by strats
whats going on in iraq, the raping and killings, all done under by the hand of american soldiers.

Thats what they think of america. And you sit back and suck off the country jizz when they program your mind through the television, and you think thats life. You are a pathetic piece of shit .

Raping and killings, all done under by the hand of American soldiers? I would think that would be front page news. Hell, we stack them up naked and the press was all over it like a bear on honey.

No, this isn't happening.

Twenty years from now when the Iraqi population has their heads out of their asses they'll figure out this was the best possible thing for them.

Hell, look at Japan these days.

[Rochard]

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
let me state it for those who wont be able to get it.

if this was 7 black nigerians you wouldnt give a fuck.

but its texas kids so make a thread about it.

meanwhile, 100 black kids just died.

no one gave a fuck, no one heard their screams.

That's an incorrect statement. The United States was indeed in Africa, and we pulled out because of lack of public support.

People bitch if we are there, people bitch if we aren't.

[jade_dragon]

Originally posted by RocHard
Raping and killings, all done under by the hand of American soldiers? I would think that would be front page news. Hell, we stack them up naked and the press was all over it like a bear on honey.

No, this isn't happening.

Twenty years from now when the Iraqi population has their heads out of their asses they'll figure out this was the best possible thing for them.

Hell, look at Japan these days.

Yes look at japan, devistated by the bombs, unable to legally form a military due to the peace treaty and yet they rebuilt themselves, the main reason, they refused to take a hand out and did it mostly by banding together to remain a super power. But how our invasions of Iraq and us dropping bombs on a nation that sided with an invading army and also launched an attack on U S soil have any kind of connection I would like you to let me know cuz i do not see it.

The story got attention because they were seven of our own most of all, I will play devil's advocate and say we do not know the race of these children BUT one can assume that the adoptive parents were white and that the number of white adoptive parents who adopt non white children is much lower than those who do adopt only white kids. There are probably orphans from other areas of Africa there under simular situations but the thing is America think that all areas of Africa are like that so the thought of them suffering is common and not going to raise an eyebrow amongst the masses here. Yes there will be many who do not care about the differances and feel terrible about it but for the most part it is all about our own and how they should not be in the same position as those other kids. I guess we can just say at least 7 are saved, what are the missionaries doing about the rest of the kids though?

[Joe Citizen]

Originally posted by RocHard
That's an incorrect statement. The United States was indeed in Africa, and we pulled out because of lack of public support.

People bitch if we are there, people bitch if we aren't.

Being there to kill them and take their oil = bad

Being there to give humanitarian aid = good

[Zerof8]

Originally posted by sarah_webinc
Okay and that has what to do with any points in this thread?

well the qoute below says that we care because they are from Texas right, well my assumption is that if they were from Idaho fletch would have said Idaho so I just covered all the states and said America.

If we should care so fucking much about all the people dying then we should also do something about it, right? but when we do something we are wrong. So fuck em let them all fix their own problems

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
let me state it for those who wont be able to get it.

if this was 7 black nigerians you wouldnt give a fuck.

but its texas kids so make a thread about it.

meanwhile, 100 black kids just died.

no one gave a fuck, no one heard their screams.

[Repetitive Monkey]

The children were black. Don't take your attention deficit disorders out on people who actually read the whole of the article.

The article stated that an official had to accidentally recognize the ACCENTS of the kids before they knew something was up. This pretty much gives it away. If the kids were White then the Nigerian government would have tried to find out where they were from at the moment they got their hands on them. But since they were Black, they blended in and were put in an orphanage.

[Dagwolf]

It had to be awful for those kids... but I agree with what a lot of people are saying here. What about the OTHER kids in that orphanage suffering from malnutrition and malaria? I'm a Texan, and part of me says... "God, that's horrible! American kids being abandoned in a poor African orphanage". But the part of me that thinks wants to know, why shouldn't all those OTHER kids get some pizza and medicine?

[Repetitive Monkey]

Originally posted by Dagwolf
It had to be awful for those kids... but I agree with what a lot of people are saying here. What about the OTHER kids in that orphanage suffering from malnutrition and malaria? I'm a Texan, and part of me says... "God, that's horrible! American kids being abandoned in a poor African orphanage". But the part of me that thinks wants to know, why shouldn't all those OTHER kids get some pizza and medicine?

Because the world is already over-populated and enough of Africa's money already comes from demonized White taxpayers in the west?

[pxxx]

I have to agree with Fletch here. I am myself a Nigerian citizen that has been living in the United States for a while now. I understand that it is sad for these children mother to just left them in a country where they have no clue how to do things, but it is not as big of a deal to receive that much media attention. There are things 100 times worse happening all around the world, and there is no interest towards it at all. It is not only the Media that PICKS what it wants to make public or take interest in, but the COUNTRY. DON'T get me wrong, i am very happy to be in this country, as it has many more opportunities than Nigeria does, but if the US is going to patrol what goes on in the world, then do it fulltime. They should not just PICK and CHOOSE by what they can get back in return. There is a major Tribal War that has been going on in Africa for decades now, and the US has not even stepped in once and said, "Hey, what is going on here?"

NOW if that land had some kind of valuable natural resources, the US would be all over the case. This not right, if you will pick and choose, then do not start as the police in the first place, the media is guilty of the same crime as well.

I am voicing out my opinion and before you fucking non pussy getting flamers start to say things like.

"If you don't like here, go back to africa."

READ MY FUCKING POST FIRST and UNDERSTAND IT!

[Sarah_Jayne]

Originally posted by Zerof8
well the qoute below says that we care because they are from Texas right, well my assumption is that if they were from Idaho fletch would have said Idaho so I just covered all the states and said America.

If we should care so fucking much about all the people dying then we should also do something about it, right? but when we do something we are wrong. So fuck em let them all fix their own problems

yes but the problem is that for some reason people don't appear to know that caring doesn't always mean invading blowing up half a country.

Heck, my neighbors are Nigerian...there are very strong connections between the UK and Nigeria and a as such London tends to be the first stop on the imigration ladder. I care about the kids of my neighbor's cousins, etc too. It doesn't mean I don't care about those seven kids. It is a good thing that they are being looked after but if the kids had even been from (plucking a name out of the air) France no one here would care.