The Grisly Problem of Africans with Albinism…and What to Do about It – IOTW Report

The Grisly Problem of Africans with Albinism…and What to Do about It

Friday, 25 May 2018, 2:00 MJA Uncategorized 17

AT: The World Health Organization and U.N. estimate that there are about 700 million people worldwide with some form of disability.  Approximately 400 million live in the developing world – and 80 million in Africa.  In most places in Africa, it’s tough to have a disability.  It’s tougher still if you’re young or female.

And it’s much more of a problem still if you have one obvious and identifiable disability: albinism.  People with albinism are characterized by a genetic anomaly resulting in an absence of skin pigment that turns skin dark – their complexion is a pallid white, as is their hair, and most have blue eyes.  They are also susceptible to eyesight problems and are extremely vulnerable to skin cancer from sun damage.  So, on a very black continent, they are easily identifiable, and often for negative reasons.

Generally, although not always, albinism in Africa carries the stigma of the damned – there’s no shortage of wild perceptions about why they are who they are.  For example, some Africans consider them ghosts; others think they are born with the condition as punishment for the mother being involved in an extramarital affair with a white person, or because the mother touched somebody with albinism.  Others believe that people with albinism are witches and should be destroyed.

Unsurprisingly, Africans with albinism are often marginalized, discriminated against, and abused in every way imaginable.

One recent report from Mali is illustrative: in a village north of the Mali capital, Bamako, gunmen in the dead of night abducted a five-year-old little girl with albinism.  She was later found beheaded.  more here

17 Comments on The Grisly Problem of Africans with Albinism…and What to Do about It

  3. We had a customer who was a true albino back in the 60’s and early 70’s. he was the strangest looking totally white, totally pale guy I ever met. He worked at the stockyards at night and would very rarely come out in the day because he would sunburn real easily. He was also the very rare true albino who had pink eyes which was really odd to look at. He also drove a 49 Nash, a great big ugly behemoth of a car which we referred to as a upside down bathtub bomber. Darned thing had more grease fittings on it than any car I’ve ever seen in my life.

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  5. Imagine if we treated people with opposite skin color as not worthy by Birth, We’d be Democrats trying to keep the retards on the Plantation.

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  14. Africa is one effed up place. They also rape babies because they think having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. Instead of bitching abut slavery, Blacks in America should thank their lucky stars that their ancestors were brought to this country.

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