Friday 17 April 2009

Jade Goody

Here's a story, a UK reality television star, famous for being stupid at 23, dead by 27.It's a tragic tale, and at her funeral, the streets were crowded with people reacting as if some kind of a saint had died.It's the kind of story if you'd read it in a book, you wouldn't believe it.
To show the sheer hypocrisy of the UK newspaper industry, she was hated before she became terminally ill, they accused her of being a bullying racist, because of her behaviour on the same reality show which made her name.This same programme ironically destroyed her.If you look at any footage with a clear head, you will find that whilst racist language was being used, it wasn't from her.
My point about her is she said her stupidity was because of the British education system.What nonsense. The fact that she didn't know basic geography and history was not because she wasn't taught well enough. It was obviously because she didn't pay attention. We all knew the types at school, chatting away throughout class, disrupting the lesson and not learning a thing.Is that a poor education or a lazy person? A poor education is experienced by children in the third world who have to work to support the family because they can't afford to send them to school.
And whilst some of the UK showed the same kind of grief that mirrored the death of Diana Princess of Wales in 1997, it's worth pointing out that Jade ignored warnings from her doctor to return for a test.It's a tragic case, but we're not dealing with a saint.

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