To the editor:

The People in the News section of the Nov. 7 Journal-World raised an interesting question: What motivates celebrities like Madonna to care about poverty in Africa?

It is very hard for me to believe that a woman who performed a blasphemous parody of the crucifixion is capable of true love and compassion. I have an equal amount of skepticism for the interest of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in African poverty. Such stars are merely high-profile tools used to promote a very revolutionary agenda of class struggle.

They are not like the Marxists of old who fomented hatred for the rich within nations. They are promoters of a new type of class struggle now being applied internationally between rich nations and poor nations. The bad boy of the world, within such a scenario, therefore is the “opulent” United States, and Americans are thus unjustly made to feel ashamed for their hard-earned success.

Members of the Hollywood elite adopt poor babies and cry about the poverty in African nations yet remain scandalously silent about the atrocities committed by Marxist African tyrants like Robert Mugabe, who is responsible for displacing millions and doing it faster than any other dictator, including monsters like Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Cambodia’s Pol Pot.

If Madonna and crew really cared about the poor, they would use their star status to denounce despots like Mugabe who are responsible for the poverty in Africa. Adopting babies and making syrupy, sentimental statements is not enough.

Jeanine Blanck,

Perry