South Africa is the rape capital of world.

Teaching Ethics: It has long irritated me to see the photo's of Oprah opening her school in a flowing pink gown and flaunting over ten carats of diamonds on her ears. These children are dirt poor; what are they being taught? It comes down to reflecting ones values. One of the young girls even talked of wanting jewelry like Oprah has. Good values do not include the coveting of material possessions. Oprah should have been dressed for business with appropriate accessories that do not advertise ones material wealth. Just an opinion

Hard to imagine that when you take 152 children to a residential school under the care of strangers and don't allow their families to visit that there'd be a problem...

Sorry but I've never been a fan of this school. As a parent, it was inconceivable to me that these girls would thrive while knowing that their families are starving. These girls are not Oprah's daughters, (as she often refers to them) they have families and those families are far away and not doing well. (that was shown on the prime time show when Oprah chose the girls)

One of the girls parents had both died of aids and she lived with her aging grandmother. Her grandmother cared for her... often giving up meals so the girl could eat and the girl would do the more physical tasks (like fetching water). Why would anyone seeing that they only had each other not offer the grandmother a hut and job with the school? Wouldn't the chances for success have been better if the families were included?

Oprah, money does not buy you competence.

Here is a Smigel on Religitables
Including a news report on 72 virgin Islamic hot tomatoes and catholic priest cucumber that
molested six Gherkins.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/58232/detail/

WOW!

Kudos to Oprah for not handling this like the Catholic Church does when their priests rape little boys.

Hey, I'm just saying.