Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the United - TopicsExpress



          

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the United States, was not the right kind of victim for the west: he wasn’t a pretty young woman smiling in sunglasses as a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Bentley licks her cheek; he didn’t have a young, benevolent doctor’s face that looks “appropriate” plastered on newspapers; he wasn’t a kindly older nurse who told reporters how God had spared her. He wasn’t the kind of person to whom primetime news specials would dedicate 20 minutes and glorify with quotes from loved ones about his kind spirit or ceaseless determination to overcome an unfair affliction. Thomas Eric Duncan was black, he was poor, and he was African. Comment is free
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:00:01 +0000

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