The hysteria is also fueling racism beyond the continent. In Germany, an African woman who recently traveled to Kenya — far from the affected countries — fell ill with a stomach virus at work; the entire building was locked down. In Brussels, an African man had a simple nosebleed at a shopping mall, and the store where it happened was sterilized. In Seoul, a bar put up a sign saying, “We apologize but due to the Ebola Virus we are not accepting Africans at the moment.” Here in the United States, each time I have been to a doctor’s office since the outbreak, I have noticed an anxious look on the faces of the assistants that dissipates only when I say that I haven’t been to my country recently. –Ishmael Beah washingtonpost/opinions/the-west-ignores-the-stories-of-africans-in-the-middle-of-the-ebola-outbreak/2014/09/19/8e151c90-3f49-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:00:10 +0000
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