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originally posted by: TheElectricPriest
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
Dave!!! God bless you man! I thought I was losing my freakin' mind. You are, literally, the only person who seemed to understand what my OP was about. It wasn't about whether or not albinos are being mutilated because they're albinos or why (hence the above 'no flag for you!'), it was why they showed us all those albinos and then ended the montage by saying, this has nothing to do with albinos. Then why did you just have a minute and a half visual presentation of nothing but albinos?! The message was just wholly inconsistent with the content.
Anyway, you have restored my faith in nutbags everywhere...
originally posted by: TheElectricPriest
Howdy ATS...
Ok, maybe I haven't had enough coffee today (or maybe too much), but I'm befuddled by this story (yes, I said befuddled). I found the story on Drudge (I know some of you don't like that site, but I find it an interesting news aggregate). It's about 10 children in Tanzania that were kidnapped and have subsequently been found murdered and dismembered. Now the part I don't understand is, and you really have to watch the brief video that is included with it, very short...less than a minute and a half), but all it shows is albino children. I have heard about this before, how albinos in some parts of the world are in constant danger because their bodies and parts thereof are valuable, sort of the human equivalent of ivory to the region I suppose. So when you watch the short clip. literally every child they show is albino, and then they conclude the whole thing by saying that their being albino has nothing to do with the crime.
I don't know, and I certainly don't mean to underpin the tragedy and importance of the story, but I just truthfully don't understand it as it was presented. And what do I do when I don't understand something, why put it on ATS of course to let you bunch of nutbags sort it out.
Peace...
TEP
www.foxnews.com...
originally posted by: Plotus
The news source is biased
This has been going on for some years. Why emphatically deny when it is so apparent ?
originally posted by: Plotus
The news source is biased
This has been going on for some years. Why emphatically deny when it is so apparent ?
a reply to: TheElectricPriest
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: TheElectricPriest
Howdy ATS...
Ok, maybe I haven't had enough coffee today (or maybe too much), but I'm befuddled by this story (yes, I said befuddled). I found the story on Drudge (I know some of you don't like that site, but I find it an interesting news aggregate). It's about 10 children in Tanzania that were kidnapped and have subsequently been found murdered and dismembered. Now the part I don't understand is, and you really have to watch the brief video that is included with it, very short...less than a minute and a half), but all it shows is albino children. I have heard about this before, how albinos in some parts of the world are in constant danger because their bodies and parts thereof are valuable, sort of the human equivalent of ivy to the region I suppose. So when you watch the short clip. literally every child they show is albino, and then they conclude the whole thing by saying that their being albino has nothing to do with the crime.
I don't know, and I certainly don't mean to underpin the tragedy and importance of the story, but I just truthfully don't understand it as it was presented. And what do I do when I don't understand something, why put it on ATS of course to let you bunch of nutbags sort it out.
Peace...
TEP
www.foxnews.com...
Some countries are backward sh*tholes and believe something like albinism is a curse... it really isn't much more complicated than that.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: Plotus
Maybe the victims in this case were not albinos because they are not really denying that:
Authorities said the murder and mutilation of the 10 children was not related to the killings of albinos in the country.
Albinos in Tanzania frequently are targeted for abuse because of discrimination and the belief their albinism is the result of their being cursed, according to Amnesty International.
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: TheElectricPriest
Howdy ATS...
Ok, maybe I haven't had enough coffee today (or maybe too much), but I'm befuddled by this story (yes, I said befuddled). I found the story on Drudge (I know some of you don't like that site, but I find it an interesting news aggregate). It's about 10 children in Tanzania that were kidnapped and have subsequently been found murdered and dismembered. Now the part I don't understand is, and you really have to watch the brief video that is included with it, very short...less than a minute and a half), but all it shows is albino children. I have heard about this before, how albinos in some parts of the world are in constant danger because their bodies and parts thereof are valuable, sort of the human equivalent of ivy to the region I suppose. So when you watch the short clip. literally every child they show is albino, and then they conclude the whole thing by saying that their being albino has nothing to do with the crime.
I don't know, and I certainly don't mean to underpin the tragedy and importance of the story, but I just truthfully don't understand it as it was presented. And what do I do when I don't understand something, why put it on ATS of course to let you bunch of nutbags sort it out.
Peace...
TEP
www.foxnews.com...
Some countries are backward sh*tholes and believe something like albinism is a curse... it really isn't much more complicated than that.
originally posted by: Azureblue
a reply to: TheElectricPriest
People who are members of minorities are never really welcome in the greater society by those who are not one of them.
This applies to albino kids in among dark skinned populations in far of Africa as it does in the US, Britain and Europe and anywhere else you'd like to name.
originally posted by: Saibotkram1988
originally posted by: Azureblue
a reply to: TheElectricPriest
People who are members of minorities are never really welcome in the greater society by those who are not one of them.
This applies to albino kids in among dark skinned populations in far of Africa as it does in the US, Britain and Europe and anywhere else you'd like to name.
Um, BEEP, Wrong.
Africa is incredibly superstitious. Albinos are hunted and used as 'mooti' (medicine) to cure disease, infidelity and make love potions. This goes back a lot further than a big group of people deciding they look different. This is ingrained in the cultural beliefs of African people.