DianaChild Slavery
April 17th 2008 11:58
I am soooo frustrated!!!!!!Aghh!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not with blogging. Oh no. Never that.
I have come to the conclusion that I am a doormat; a drudge; a slave to my family. and things have to change.
Speaking of slavery, seriousy, I was apalled to read in 'Time' magazine while waiting for my son to finish his guitar lesson the other day, that slavery, far from being something we heard about in the nineteenth century and think is abolished, is now more common than ever in certain parts of the world. Indeed, this article outlined how terribly easy it was to 'barter' on the streets of NewYork for a child to be shipped to ones home to commence duties as a slave (or 'life partner'). Children as young as 10 were being sold and sent to various spots from poor, undeveloped countries, such as Haiti and parts of Africa.
Children then lived whole decades of their lives as slaves before either figuring out how to run away or being released in some shape or form.
People in developed countries, so the article ran, were blithely unaware of these happenings, though many in government know but do little to stop it.
The pictures which ran with the story were depressing in the extreme.
After the guitar lesson ran out of puff on the Wolfmother front, my son and I walked home through the deepening dusk.
As he ran ahead stamping on leaves I pondered all the terrible uneveness-es in our world.
Where will it all end? as my mother used to lament.
Not with blogging. Oh no. Never that.
I have come to the conclusion that I am a doormat; a drudge; a slave to my family. and things have to change.
Speaking of slavery, seriousy, I was apalled to read in 'Time' magazine while waiting for my son to finish his guitar lesson the other day, that slavery, far from being something we heard about in the nineteenth century and think is abolished, is now more common than ever in certain parts of the world. Indeed, this article outlined how terribly easy it was to 'barter' on the streets of NewYork for a child to be shipped to ones home to commence duties as a slave (or 'life partner'). Children as young as 10 were being sold and sent to various spots from poor, undeveloped countries, such as Haiti and parts of Africa.
Children then lived whole decades of their lives as slaves before either figuring out how to run away or being released in some shape or form.
People in developed countries, so the article ran, were blithely unaware of these happenings, though many in government know but do little to stop it.
The pictures which ran with the story were depressing in the extreme.
After the guitar lesson ran out of puff on the Wolfmother front, my son and I walked home through the deepening dusk.
As he ran ahead stamping on leaves I pondered all the terrible uneveness-es in our world.
Where will it all end? as my mother used to lament.
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