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(The New York Times) Scary Bad: being an albino in the blistering sun of sub-Saharan Africa. Worse: Being hunted and killed by criminals trafficking in your "magical" body parts   (nytimes.com) divider line 222
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Xaxor [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 05:38:20 PM  
<Insert generic racist comment here.>

 
Cagey B [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 09:23:18 PM  
Jesus, that's sickening.

 
shanrick [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 09:39:42 PM  
The other white meat.

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 10:16:14 PM  
Education solves this kind of crap.

 
Crosshair [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 10:25:25 PM  
Tanzanian officials say witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich.

Looks like it doesn't matter where you are, the stupid will be parted from their money.

 
SVC_conservative [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:06:53 PM  
HUMAN HORN

 
AlphaNumericus 2008-06-08 11:07:46 PM  
Will Dr. Barack Hussein Obama Jr do this too if he's elected US president?

 
panzerfaustbob 2008-06-08 11:08:00 PM  
We have much to learn from Mother Africa.

 
Unknown_Poltroon [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:08:59 PM  
Why cant you just shoot someone for being that farking stupid.

 
Myth Sammich 2008-06-08 11:09:34 PM  
These Africans have seen Powder one to many times.

 
doglover [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:09:53 PM  
Okay, okay. Let's do this scientifically.

How many Farkers have used an albino's body parts to get rich?

Okay.

Now, how many Farkers are rich?

See that?

There might be something to this albino thing after all....

 
YixilTesiphon 2008-06-08 11:10:57 PM  
AlphaNumericus: Will Dr. Barack Hussein Obama Jr do this too if he's elected US president?

No. I hope you're trolling, because as awful as Obama's proposals are, that's just racist and moronic.

 
AppleDane 2008-06-08 11:11:03 PM  
Well, at least it's not the blood of Christ.

 
nunia 2008-06-08 11:11:11 PM  
Everyone wants me lucky charms.

/only half albino
//the lower half

 
mgyqmb 2008-06-08 11:11:15 PM  
Sub-Saharan Africa gets all the credit for being hotter than balls, but having spent a substantial amount of time in Super-Saharan Africa, I can tell you that being albino there isn't a walk in the park either.

 
Suicidal Writer 2008-06-08 11:11:16 PM  
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
- Pythagoras

"Some will take refuge in the old cliché that humans are different from other animals. But when did a difference justify a moral prejudice? When did those with black hair have a right to mistreat those with red hair...or even those with blue or purple hair...Surely the crucial similarity that men share with other animals is the capacity to suffer? Regardless of the number of legs or the woolliness of our fur, we can all suffer..."
- Richard Ryder

 
jmgilchr 2008-06-08 11:11:25 PM  
given that albinos are composed entirely of albino body parts....they should be damned lucky, yes?

 
AlphaNumericus 2008-06-08 11:11:42 PM  
Remember when Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky already turned the Oval Office into "Oral Office"?
Obama's people take "eating" too literally.
http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsi d= 124917
The Urgent Action Fund has also been involved in educating pygmy women in DRC who have become the target of superstitious men who believe eating their victims' genitals will bring them good luck in war.
"Armed groups in the DRC have been known to eat the genitals of female pygmies before going to war in order to make them superhuman and invincible," Ms Murungi told the Sunday Nation.

Hello!
This is not how you do it.

 
knucklebreather 2008-06-08 11:11:45 PM  
AlphaNumericus: Will Dr. Barack Hussein Obama Jr do this too if he's elected US president?

Yes, right after he dines on some fried chicken and collared greens.

 
Monkeypillow 2008-06-08 11:12:08 PM  
Wow.

 
EsteeFlwrPot 2008-06-08 11:12:36 PM  
Why can't we help educate these people so they can stop this bullshiat and maybe help improve the world economy?

 
jmgilchr 2008-06-08 11:13:20 PM  
EsteeFlwrPot: Why can't we help educate these people so they can stop this bullshiat and maybe help improve the world economy?

we could help the economy by breeding them

 
YixilTesiphon 2008-06-08 11:14:21 PM  
EsteeFlwrPot: Why can't we help educate these people so they can stop this bullshiat and maybe help improve the world economy?

Because aid only creates dependency. That's also why Africa can't feed itself.

 
thatguyfred 2008-06-08 11:14:48 PM  
My Gods those Negroids (yes, that is the proper term) are fraking ignorant.

 
ChicagoJohn 2008-06-08 11:14:50 PM  
hahhaah wow! that's one creepy story.

/Africa sucks

 
The Southern Dandy 2008-06-08 11:15:36 PM  
www.runningmovies.com

One of the coolest movies ever.

 
Porous Horace 2008-06-08 11:16:00 PM  
Checking Ebay ...

 
Norad [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:16:02 PM  
There is absolutely no hope for saving Africa from itself with this kind of mentality running around.

I say suspend any and all aid to the farking place and let it live out the death wish it apparently wants.

Starving to death? LET'S MAKE MORE BABIES!

Can we join other civilized continents? SURE AFTER I HACK THIS ALBINO FREAK FOR PARTS.

Africa is a lost cause. It will only serve as a base for future wars.

 
toejam 2008-06-08 11:16:50 PM  
Some women have told me I have a magical body part.

 
Farking Canuck 2008-06-08 11:16:50 PM  
And the Chinese are wiping out the tiger population because they think that tiger penis tea will help them get it up.

The world would be a lot better if we could educate the unwashed masses.

As John Lennon put it ... Imagine. A world without racism, religion, tiger penis tea and albino potions. Sounds pretty good to me.

/yes I threw that one in there ... they are all the same to me.

 
Dear_Leader 2008-06-08 11:17:19 PM  
I like metafilter :-)

 
Norad [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:18:03 PM  
toejam: Some women have told me I have a magical body part

Do they live in the Niagara Falls area?

 
greyspace 2008-06-08 11:18:06 PM  
img362.imageshack.us

But I thought albinos were murderers?

/Just saw Da Vince Code last night.
//Don't know why everybody be hatin'
///Thought it was all right. Not great but OK.

 
AlphaNumericus 2008-06-08 11:18:10 PM  
YixilTesiphon: AlphaNumericus: Will Dr. Barack Hussein Obama Jr do this too if he's elected US president?

No.


O RLY?
http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=50236
There were no classes at Nhlangano Central High School yesterday as the 30 teachers staged a protest march against one deputy principal whom they accused of practicing witchcraft.
The march follows a bizarre incident in which the deputy was allegedly caught performing weird rituals in an incident that angered colleagues.
The teacher is said to have been caught red handed sprinkling muti in one of the offices last week...
The teachers say they are scared of what the deputy's rituals may impact on them, negatively...
Police spokesman, Superintendent Vusi Masuku confirmed that the teachers submitted a list of concerns about the deputy's love for muti and office rituals. The letter was, however copied to the commander and addressed to the regional education officer.

http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=50236
Mutilated body found in Vaal
Vaal Rand police are looking for the family of an unidentified boy aged between six and seven years who was found brutally murdered at the weekend.
It is believed the boy's body was mutilated for muti purposes because his private parts were missing.

http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=50236
Women relive muti deaths terror
The community of Adam's Mission, in Umbumbulu, lived in fear for four months.
Today, they are relieved that a sangoma and five alleged serial killers are going to court accused of the brutal mut i killings of nine women...
Most of the women were dragged into the veld and raped. Their ears, tongues, breasts and genitalia were hacked off.

http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=50236
Police try to discover motive for muti killings
Poplice are carefully going over all evidence again in the gruesome muti killings in Mzamba near Bizana in a bid to discover what motivated the killers.
Bhisho's Safety and Security head of department Bashir Hoosain said they were trying to find an answer to whether the killings were an act of organised crime, human parts trafficking or just the actions of youths on the rampage.

Kenya, Obama's home turf:
http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=50236
A group of up to 300 young men killed 15 people who were accused of being witches and wizards in western Kenya on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, in some cases slitting their throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies, officials said.
The young men went through two villages, looking for anyone on a list of suspected witches and wizards that included the kind of spells individuals were believed to have cast, a local official.
He said the villagers complained that the suspected wizards and witches were "making the bright children in the community dumb."

 
Man On Pink Corner [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:19:27 PM  
Clearly, more money will fix this.

 
Calvin Coolidge 2008-06-08 11:20:13 PM  
knucklebreather: AlphaNumericus: Will Dr. Barack Hussein Obama Jr do this too if he's elected US president?

Yes, right after he dines on some fried chicken and collared greens.


img167.imageshack.us

/Obama supporter
//still laughs at this image macro
///then feels guilty

 
Farking Canuck 2008-06-08 11:20:47 PM  
You really are pathetice AlphaNumericus (and racist of course but that goes without saying).

 
EsteeFlwrPot 2008-06-08 11:20:52 PM  
Samsaran: Africa is still mired in primitive tribalism and shamanism. Let's see how can we blame this one colonialism and the European slave trade.

I just read your profile and I am now extemely attracted to you.

Back to the topic at hand, why have we let Africa turn into the shiathole it is? We can help them build schools to educate the people, build hospitals, etc. Why haven't we done this yet? If we have then it's definetly not to the extent necessary to help them, obviously.

 
Man On Pink Corner [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:21:09 PM  
EsteeFlwrPot: Why can't we help educate nuke these people so they can stop this bullshiat and maybe help improve the world economy?

No charge.

 
ultraholland 2008-06-08 11:21:59 PM  
upload.wikimedia.org

 
AlphaNumericus 2008-06-08 11:22:07 PM  
knucklebreather: AlphaNumericus: Will Dr. Barack Hussein Obama Jr do this too if he's elected US president?

Yes, right after he dines on some fried chicken and collared greens.


Hey, I like collard (sic) greens!

I don't like this:

http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,169807,00.html
The Biblical Cain and Abel story was re-enacted in the Northern Region when a man killed his brother and ate parts of his flesh.
The gory murder occurred in the village of Guabulga near Walewale, a Mamprusi area, according to a Police source.
The suspected murderer, Amadu Osman, a 25-year-old farmer, killed his elder brother, Alhassan Osman, and cut off his arms, penis and scrotum.
Following the gruesome act, the suspect buried the remains of his victim under a heap of rocks and leaves, after feasting on one of the arms of his brother on their farm near the village.



http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,169807,00.html
The family members of Fortune Khumalo, 8, who had his genitals cut off last year, were fuming yesterday after the sentencing of muti merchant Lucky Simango, was postponed for the second time by the Malamulele regional court...
Fortune was playing soccer with friends when he went into a field to relieve himself. There he was attacked by Simango who cut off his genitals. Simango was later found with the parts in his possession.



http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,169807,00.html
Police have discovered the body of a four-year-old boy at Mpheko near Mthatha. The body had several stab wounds and its private parts were cut off...
Police say the buyer of the private parts was in KwaNongoma, KwaZulu Natal. The man was arrested and will be charged with murder.
Since August last year, at least 18 people, mainly women, have been killed for muti purposes in the Bizana area of the Transkei.

 
spudbeach 2008-06-08 11:22:35 PM  
And the next time somebody tells me "Oh, what's the harm in believing in nonsense?", I'll just tell them about this.

Face it people: the ability to say "this is bullshiat" is important. Too few people calling "bullshiat" when it's deserved leads to homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, traditional chinese medicine, herb cures, coffee enemas, poaching rhinoceroses for their horns, killing tigers for their penises, and yep, killing albinos for their skin. It's all a continuum -- bullshiat without evidence is bullshiat, no matter how far it leads.

 
Maddogjew [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:23:34 PM  
Africa is a dog's breakfast. Stop sending any aid and let them sort stuff out for themselves. With the AIDS rate they have, Africa will be quit a bit different in about 30 years or so.

/What a damn shame

 
Man On Pink Corner [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 11:23:49 PM  
Calvin Coolidge: /Obama supporter
//still laughs at this image macro


Lazy and shiftless not only gets my vote, but I'll even work to rig the election for him.

 
Jose628 2008-06-08 11:24:13 PM  
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/really really want her "magical" body parts

 
EsteeFlwrPot 2008-06-08 11:24:20 PM  
Samsaran: Why don't you volunteer?

Hmm... Maybe I will.

YixilTesiphon: Because aid only creates dependency. That's also why Africa can't feed itself.

Well then can't we show them how to be self sufficient?

 
illustri 2008-06-08 11:24:21 PM  
makes perfect sense

white people are rich

no ones whiter than an albino

eat the rich

/poor albino though

 
Pyynk 2008-06-08 11:25:07 PM  
EsteeFlwrPot: Samsaran: Africa is still mired in primitive tribalism and shamanism. Let's see how can we blame this one colonialism and the European slave trade.

I just read your profile and I am now extemely attracted to you.

Back to the topic at hand, why have we let Africa turn into the shiathole it is? We can help them build schools to educate the people, build hospitals, etc. Why haven't we done this yet? If we have then it's definetly not to the extent necessary to help them, obviously.


We have. That's the really sad part.

 
Killer Miller 2008-06-08 11:26:17 PM  
If I drink a potion with Johnny Winter's body parts in it will I be able to play the blues like a motherfarker?

 
AlphaNumericus 2008-06-08 11:26:32 PM  
Farking Canuck: You really are pathetice AlphaNumericus (and racist of course but that goes without saying).

Am I making this stuff up?
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL22903232.html
Rise in ritual killings in Gabon


http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL22903232.html
When the body of 13-year-old Ralph Edang N'na was found drained of blood and with gaping wounds in his genitals, chest and neck last month, many in Gabon thought it was politicians who had ordered his killing.

The murder of children and young adults, whose organs are eaten or used to make magical amulets, has increased in recent years in the oil-rich central African nation. Campaigners say some Gabonese politicians use the black magic rituals to boost their chances of winning lucrative government posts.


http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL22903232.html
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

 
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