"Dirty" Naomi and "dirty" pebbles? Let her be!

Naomi Campbell´s recent appearance before the international court in Hague is generating an unnecessary media examination of the person in question. The UK media seem to be in pact to rip her apart and inflict as much damage as possible to her already weak image. “Dirty pebbles and blood diamonds” became the rhetoric used by the hawks of the new media to attempt to undermine the credibility of this young woman. As if we were talking about the “dirty tobacco plantations and the bloody Mississippi” of the 17th century American slavery, they created so much horror over an innocuous action of her emblematic personality. Undoubtedly, Ms Campbell is a special breed, made of ivory and enormous spiritual endowment to survive even the worst hostile situation.

Why is the media interested in Ms Campbell´s behavior instead of concentrating on the accused person, Liberian ex-Leader Charles Taylor? Perhaps it is because she is a new material. She provides the hype which every Journalist can use to produce any filthy script and publish their poisonous feelings against this beauty Icon. Let us not forget that Ms Campbell worked her butts off to get to her status of international prominence. She is a beauty and fashion icon, a role model for millions of kids all over the world; hence her inclusion in the very few invited guest at the Mandela´s foundation.

I read what would be the most absurd comparism of Ms Campbell´s difficult lifestyle which was written by an assistant editor of fashion in one of local dailies. She cynically compared Ms. Campbell´s troubled life to Kate Moss´s drug addiction. Of course, in her conclusion, Kate Moss´s drug consumption, abuse and addiction were considered socially acceptable than Ms. Campbell´s innocuous action of accepting a gift from some men who knocked at her door in the middle of the night. She never said that the gifts were delivered by Charles Taylor. I did not recall hearing her link the gift to former Liberia warlord. Yet the media continued to insist that Ms. Campbell got the “dirty diamonds” from Mr. Charles Taylor. How sleazy and cruel some people can be, bullying Ms. Campbell in the pages of the local and national newspapers and undermining her responsible and modest approach to duty by appearing before the tribunal.

Why would anyone condone Kate Moss´s drug related episode and vehemently criticize Ms Campbell for accepting a gift? What was the offence of Ms. Campbell? I guess she may have committed the only sinful deed of being the best at what she does. An icon of fashion and an elegant personality, she has exhaled in the world of fashion and survived heartbreaks, celebrity gossips, rivalry and every odd she had faced. Her trajectory as a model and celebrity role model had been brilliant even with that dramatic, ridiculous and isolated episode which led to her penitence in New York, USA. Ms. Campbell gave testimony about her encounter with the so called “dirty diamonds” which was used to purchase the shameful weapons manufactured in the Western countries for the eventual mutilation of women and kids in Africa. It is so sad to note that the media ignore the stockpiles of weapons of war all over Africa, the funding of rebel groups and dissidents in Africa by the West and crimes against humanity in Africa; they rather resort to chasing the ghost.

It is cheap to made ridicule of Ms Campbell saying she is cheap because she woke up in the middle of the night to get her doors. It is even despicable and sinful to insinuate that she flirted with Charles Taylor while meeting as guests of Dr Nelson Mandela. Is It about jealousy, hate, envies or simply another opportunity to smear and pull down that unique, ivory beautiful diva whose personality the fashion world, dominated by some schizophrenics had sought to reinvent and recreate in futility. Ms. Campbell is just irreplaceable so, why don’t we just quit hating? I guess the same people who are writing all crap about her compelling presence at the international court thought she would give them something more to write about. For example, Naomi slept with Taylor or Naomi sold the “dirty diamonds” and enriched herself with the proceeds. So disappointed they were to find her behavior so correct and elegant as depicts her true personality. She not only donated the so called “dirty diamonds” to the charity, but shocked her detractors by proving that she was and is never cheap.

Her appearance was highly analyzed and a unanimous conclusion reached in favor of her amazing presence which reveals the lady she has always been. A word of advice, Naomi! Be calm and wait for the media to find another distraction from elsewhere before you will be left alone. I have no doubt about your enormous spiritual and physical prowess to waive those ranting aside and continue to live the good life you have so chosen. “Dirty diamonds “or “dirty journalism” shouldn’t deter you from being a good, humanitarian and God fearing person you have always been.

News is what journalists and the crap-heads who run that circus say it is, but you may chose to ignore them or, IGNORE THEM.

Anthonyjosephreport

Nigerian couple gave birth to a blonde little girl

"I'm sure she's my kid - I just don't know why she's blonde." That was the stunned reaction of Ben Ihegboro, a British citizen of Nigerian origin, upon seeing his new daughter, Nmachi.

It may appear bizarre but it's real. Ben, 44, and his 35-year-old wife, Angela, both of Igbo extraction and with dark skin, had brought to life a baby that is completely white in the United Kingdom.

Neither of them knew of any white ancestry in their family. Yet the couple is now proud parents of a blue-eyed, white-skinned girl with curly blonde hair.

Nmachi, whose name means "Beauty of God" in Igbo, is the third child born to the South London couple, joining sister Dumebi, two, and brother Chisom, four, both black.

Physicians at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, South London, where Angela gave birth, affirm that the child is not an albino.

The parents aren't the only ones surprised by the birth. Geneticists are also at a loss for explanation.

Head of Human Genetics at Oxford University, Bryan Sykes, called the birth "extraordinary".

He said: "In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents."

But he noted that this phenomenon, where a recessive light-skin gene is passed on to a child of dark-skinned parents, is usually found only in societies where there is significant race mixing, like those of the Caribbean. "But in Nigeria, there is little mixing," he said.

Sykes said that there would have had to be some white ancestry, perhaps several generations back, to make this possible.

But the Ihegboros, who moved to Britain from Nigeria five years ago, say they know of no white ancestors in their families.

Sykes allowed that a strange mutation may explain the birth. "The rules of genetics are complex and we still don't understand what happens in many cases," he said. The parents are puzzled but proud nonetheless.

Ben told The Sun of London that he was so shocked when he first saw the child that he jokingly asked, "Is she mine?"

"We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages - not saying anything," he said.

"Our boy keeps coming to look at his sister and sits down looking puzzled. We are a black family. Suddenly he has a white sister.

"But all that matters is that she is healthy and that we love her."

The event recalls a similarly astonishing birth five years ago in Britain, in which two mixed-race parents produced twin daughters - one white, one black. The odds of that happening, experts say, were one in a million. They were surely much higher than that for this birth.

According to a BBC article, there are three possible explanations for the birth of Nmachi - albinism, a genetic mutation or some dominant white genes that entered her parents' backgrounds some generations ago.

Doctors have already said that they do not believe Nmachi is an albino, but it is possible that both of her parents carried light skin genes and they mutated in the correct way to produce a light skinned baby.

However, her parents say they do not have any white ancestry in their backgrounds.

It is most likely to be a genetic mutation, which could cause more genetic mutations down the line.

More research will have to be done to find out if Nmachi has even a form of albinism that could be described as a genetic mutation, but for now she is healthy and happy and that is all her parents are concerned about.

(Source: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=178835)

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