Did Madonna Buy Baby David?
Madonna claimed this morning that she initially tried to give her recently adopted baby’s father money, so he could raise the boy himself, but he turned her down. And this, said Madge, she took as a sign that she should adopt him herself.
Baby David’s father says another woman was set to adopt/raise David, but Madonna took him befor the other lady could take him. David’s father said there wouldn’t have been such a fuss if the other lady would have taken David instead, and he would have still had a good home.
Madonna told Meredith Vieira on "Today" that she "couldn’t really understand" Yohane Banda’s decision not to take her money, especially because he had "moved to another village and was kind of getting on with his life." When he declined the money, Madonna said she regarded it as "my sign that … it was my responsibility to look after [David]."
Madonna also defended her decision to get little David indoctrinated into the Kabbalah fold early. "I believe in Jesus and I study kabbalah," she said. "So, I don’t see why he can’t, too." And as for David himself, Mama Madge said that the kid (like his adoptive mother) has "a terrible temper," that he’s "flirtatious," and "hysterically funny."
"I have people say to me when I’m walking down the street, ’Why did you adopt a black child?’ I don’t dignify their question with a reply. But there is a lot of racism in the world. I think that’s underneath a lot of people’s prejudice about me adopting David. A lot of people have a problem with the fact that I’ve adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do. I’m not going to buy into it and neither are my children. So I don’t worry about it. I don’t live in a white world. I live in THE world. And my children are exposed to all cultures and all races and many belief systems."
- Madonna tells the Today show’s Meredith Vieira
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