I've been sick.....

Damn that flu virus. I barely remember this past Thursday and Friday is a blur, I think I woke up for good on Saturday afternoon. It’s insane. I don’t think I’ve ever had the flu. I’m more a bronchitis or sinus infection from allergies type of girl. But the overwhelming fatigue, nausea, congestion, and aches & pains was awful. (insert violin music here) Well, anyway, I’ve been wondering something for awhile. Has anyone noticed that the media didn’t start knocking celebrity adoptions until celebrities started adopting Black babies? Tons of celebrities have adopted children over the years. But there seems to be a big backlash to Madonna’s new baby and Angelina and Brad’s growing United Colors of Benetton family. No one said anything about Meg Ryan’s Chinese adoption or the various lesbian couples that adopt. I’m a little ashamed of the media. They have little regard for the backlash of their “disdain” and accusations these adoptions are “fads.” There may be some duds, but that comes in all families. We should all be proud these Americans have open their hearts and homes to children who could have been thrown in the gutter, starved to death or left untouched in scary orphanage. The tradition of adopting kids from other countries goes back far in American history. People adopted kids from Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia as far back as the sixties and seventies. White families all over the suburbs of America are adopting Chinese girls. To suggest, as I heard from some media talking heads, that international adoptions is just a phenomenon among the celebrities is ludicrous. Who cares what their motivations are. We act like ‘regular’ people don’t try to look über-magnanimous to family, friends, to fulfill some inner emotional need. These are generous people and they are setting a good example. Too much is given, much is expected.