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Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 32,472 Send Message	Purple *^Sparkly^* Diamond	Report	9 Jun 2010 21:31
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Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 32,472 Send Message	Purple *^Sparkly^* Diamond	Report	9 Jun 2010 05:01
	Did anyone watch the programme about the Albino footballers in Tanzania, whose lives are constantly in danger. It seems that Albinos are considered lucky but only when dead, ie. their bones are ground up for potions used by witchdoctors, and charms to make fishermen catch more fish, or miners stay safe. This team have been travelling round playing football and doing well at it, 4th from the top of the league I think they ended up, and in doing so, have swayed a lot of people to think favourably of them as real people. They showed a picture of a little Albino girl of 4 who had been captured and murdered and her legs cut off, and removed. Shocking eh? We don't know half about the way others live, I really admired those Albinos and their bravery in putting themselves at risk to make a difference for all Albinos in their country. People like those are the heroes not the flash footballers who earn obscene amounts of money and act like idiots, most of them. All power to Albino United. Lizx