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Archive for the ‘Child Exploitation’ Category

Restaveks: Child Slaves in Haiti

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Aljazeera English, Child Abuse, Child Exploitation, Haiti, Restaveks on November 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Al Jazeera: Slavery: A 21st Century Evil Part 4: Child Slaves (click on image)

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Malia vs. Haitian Child Sex Slaves

Posted in African Diaspora, African-Americans, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Barack Obama, Child Abuse, Child Exploitation, Glenn Beck, Haiti, Malia Obama, Media, News, Sexual Assault and Exploitation on May 30, 2010 | 18 Comments »

I have been very busy with work and travelling this week, however two stories caught my attention. Although they involved Black children, what I found interesting and most revealing was the reaction of the African American community to both stories. The first story had to deal with FOXNews personality Glenn Becks spoof of a conversation between President Obama and his daughter Malia on plugging [...]

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Restaveks: Haiti’s Child Slaves

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Child Exploitation, Haiti, Life, News, Restaveks, Slavery on December 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I was about to do a post on the continuing Tiger Wood’s saga when I decided to watch BBC World News to get my morning international news information. They did a piece on Haiti’s child slaves known as “Restaveks”, (read news report here). I wonder what they would think of our fascination and insatiable hunger for daily gossip on the [...]

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A Disposable Life

Posted in Adoption, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Anita Tedaldi, Child Exploitation, Critical Thinking, Family, Life, Love on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I read this story over at my yawdie’s place, The Field Negro, about a (White) woman who decided to give up her (Black) adopted son after several months.   “The first time I considered giving up D. I was lying alone in my oversized bed. It was about midnight, my children were asleep and my husband [...]

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The Great African Scandal

Posted in Africa, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Child Exploitation, Economics, Exploitation, Fair Trade, Geopolitics, Ghana, Globalization, Imperialism, Life, Robert Beckford, Slavery, Work on September 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »

This very informative documentary is by Robert Beckford on his fact finding visit to Ghana and the “new” colonization of Africa. “What has been shall be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

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