Tanzanian Govt Puts Albinos Under Protection

The government has chosen to safeguard roughly 7000 children with albinism to protect them from human predators.

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An Albino boy carries a baby in Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 17 May 2007. Each segment of the civilian population in the north faces its own horrors. Boys are kidnapped by the LRA and brutally indoctrinated into life as soldiers.

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    Jun 18 2012, 11:16

    As Q-Tip from the Hip Hop Group A Tribe Called Quest once said ....black is black! We must stop color discrimination internally before we can ask that it be stopped externally.

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  • ras sideeq
    Jun 18 2012, 13:29

    AS WE SEE ALBINOSIM IN AFRICA IT IS NOTHING NEW NOR IS IT APHENOMENAM WHAT WE MUST REMIND OURSELVES OF IS MOSES!! YES, MOSES DO WE REMEMBER WHEN HE STUCK HIS HAND IN HIS CLTHES AND IT CAME OUT WHITE AS AS WITH LEPROSY THIS IS THE SAME THING WAS HILIGHTED IN THE HOLY BIBLE. WE MUST REMEBERTHAT WE ARE ALL HUMAMNITY THESE WERE THEY WHO SETTLED IN EUROPE AND BECAME THE CAUCASIONS WE KNOW TODAY. THEY COULD NT TAKETHE BLINDING SUN THE HEAT THEY MIGRATED IN THERE MILLIONS. LET US NOT GET THISFACT CONFUSED, WHAT I AM GLAD OF IS THE WAY IT IS IN ALL AFRICA SO EVERYSINGLE AFRICAN CAN RECI#OGNISE THE TRUTH. WHITES FROM EUORPE DO NOT POSSES MELANIN THEY WANT TO CLAIM IT BUT THEY DEFINITTIVELY DO NOT""". WEW MUST SIGHT THAT WE ARE THE FOREFATHERS OF HUMANITY AND FROM US CAME ALL LIVING PEOPLE WQE ARE THE BENAFACTORS OF EVERY ETHNICITY ON THE PLANET. SOMETIMES WHEN I SPEAK IT SEEMS THAT I MIGHT BE BIASED TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE HOWEVER I HAVE BEEN STSATING THIS FOREVER. IT PLEASES ME THAT MORE INTELLECTUAL AFRICANS ARE SIGHTING TRUTH. THE BLACK MAN IS THE ONE AND ONLY PERSON ABLE TO ON THIS PLANET TO MAKE WHITE. THE THE ALBINO THE WHITE EUROPEANM CAN NOT MAKE BLACK THERE IS NO COMMON DENOMINATOR TO BLACK EVERY OTHER COLOUR OF HUMANIY,THE BLACK MAN CAN REPRODUCE EVRY COLOUR OF HUMANITY ; HOWEVER THE OTHER COLOURS CANNOT REPRODUCE BLACK. BECAUSE OF RACISM THEY WANT US TO BELIEVE ALL THE RUBBISH THEY WANT US BE INDOCTRINATED BY. THEY HAVE TAKEN HISTORY OF ALL AFRICAN REWROTE IT TO SUIT THEMSELVE SAS WE SEE THEY EVEOLVED INTO WHOM THEY ARE DUE TO SOEM MIXING WITH? HOW EVER THERE IS NO EYES DERIVATION THAT IS NOT BLACK THEY USE TO SAY THAT BLACK MAN DO NOT MAKE BLUE EYES WE KNOW THAT TO BE FALACYAND LIEW WE KNOW FOR A FACT THATBLONDE HAIR IS AN ALBINO TRAIT SO IS BLUE EYES, WE ALOS SEE THE AFRICAN AUSTROLOID DEFINITELY HAVING BLUE EYES. WE KNOW ALSO THAT HY HAD MANY ALBINOS AS WELL. WE CAN SEE THE LINK WITHTHE ASTROLOID ALBINO WITH THE AFRICOID ALBINO MATING GETTING THE STRAIGHT HAIR LONG HAIR AS WE KNOW THEAUSTROLOID HAS MORE HAIR THAN THE AFRICAN. WE MUST KNOW HWO WE ARE WE MUST STOP BELIEVING IN ALL THIS FOOLSHNESS AND SIGHT THE ALL MIGHTY GOD AS THE TRUE CREATOR AND MUST SEE ORUSEL;VES AS HIS PERFECT CREATION. WE WERE THE MASTERS OF THE PYRAMID SCIENCVE EVERY CRAFT ON THIS PALNET SO DO NOT GET IT WRONG. EVERY SO OFTEN W WOULD TRAVLETHE PLANET BRINGIONG GLAD TIDINGS GIVING CIVILIZATION TO ALL THE LOST PEOPLE. THIS IS WHY WE SEE IN EVERY PART OF THE EARTH THER IS A STORY A MONUMENT TO THE BLACK AFRICAN. THE WHITES LIKE TO SAY THAT THESE WERE BUILT BY ALIENS OR THEY SAY THAT THSE TRADITRIUONS WERE GIVEN TO THE NATIVE PEOPLE BY SOME SUPERIOR RACE THAT CAME FORM SPACE EVERYTHIUNG THEY CREDIT TO THE SPACE MAN. THEY ARE SO RACIST TODAY THAT THEY BUILD SPACE STATIONS THEY BUILD TELESCOPES TO FIND "ALL MIGHTY GOD" IF NOT TO FIND THE LIFE FORMS THE E Ts TO ADMIT THEY WERE FROM THE LOINS OF THE BLACK MAN WOULD BE ACQUIESSING TOO MUCH. THEY WOULD PREFER TO BE KNOWN AS MONKEYS COMMING FROM APES AND CHIMPANZEES. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO CREDIT THEM TO THESE ARGUMENST YET THEY PERSIST WITH IT. THEY FIND SKUULS WHICH IS EITHER MONKEY OR MAN THERE IS NO INBETWEEN. WE WOULD NTO STOP EVOLVING LIKE THE SNAIL AND THE BUTTERFLY THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE ETERNITY. WE SE THE TADPOLE BECOMETH FROG OR WHAT SO EVER EVOLUTION IS ALWAYS THEREIS NO HALT IN EVOLUTION . SO THAT RUBBISH IS NOTHING BUT RUBBISH. AS BLACK PEOPLE WE MUST LEARN THE TRUTH THEN RAD SELECTIVELY OR WE WILL BECOME CAUGHT UP IN THIER FAIRY TALES 2. WE ARE THE FOUNDATION OF ALL HISTORY ONTHE PLANET WE HAVE BEEN HERE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS WE ARE NTO A PHENOMENAM WE WERE HERE DURING THE ICE AGE WE ARE THE MOST SUCCESFUL EVER OF ALL LIFE FORMS THIS IS WHAT WE AS BLACK PEOLE SHOULD KNOW FOR AFACT AND REALITY. AS LONG THEY HAVE YOU BELIVEING THIER STORIES THIER TALES THIER RUBBISH YOU WONT SEEK TO FIND SELF. IN ELIJAH HE SAID "OU ARE GODS" WE WERE MADE BY A "SUPERIOR BEING" WHO TAUGHT US ALL THINGS . "WERENT CERATED BY ALIENS "WERE THE CREATION OF THE ONE GOD" TO WHOM WE OWE OUR ALLIAGANCE AND LOVE TO" "PEACEBE UNTO AFRICA MAY GOD GIVE LOVE TO ALL HUMANITY"

    DF THE MOST HIGH"."HE" ALONE HAS BEEN OUR GUIDE IT IS HE WHOM WE OWWE ALL OUR RESPECT HONOUR GLORY"

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