Posted on 10/20/2014 10:36:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dar es Salaam – The CNN International (DStv 401) anchor Isha Sesay whose parents are from Sierra Leone – the epicentre of the Ebola pandemic devastating West Africa – says she is "an angry black woman" over the media coverage and the world's inadequate response to Ebola.
"I am an angry black woman. I have a very tense relationship with the story because I'm living in the United States but my family is in Sierra Leone. My mother, brother, grandmother – most of my family – are in Sierra Leone right now.”
Isha Sesay was speaking as a panelist member at the Serena Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in one of the media forum sessions forming part of the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2014.
"I'm in a place where America has taken this, in my words 'bizarre' approach to this public health emergency on our continent and the media in the United States has made it all about them and their few cases," said Isha Sesay who spent much of her childhood in Sierra Leone.
"I was at the airport a couple of weeks ago and the driver was picking me up. I was there at the baggage carousel. And he said 'Where are you from?' And I said 'I'm from Sierra Leone.' And he took a step back from me."
"And I thought: 'Wow. How wretched a job have we done as the media that people think that just because I'm from Sierra Leone, that just being in my presence, regardless of whether I was in Sierra Leone or not, that I'm somehow inherently a carrier of Ebola," said Isha Sesay....
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Well take your angry Black ass back home and take care of your family, oh, and shut the hell up!
Ok Honey, give me your credit card number and I'll be happy to book a flight for you. You're selfish if you stay here while your family is in danger.
Why does she mention she is ‘black’ ? The virus doesn’t care what color your skin is. Viruses are no racists.
If I could only go back in time and warn our founding fathers about slavery and the import of Africans into this country...
“an angry black woman” with a muzzie name.
I really do not care at all what you think of my response, lady.
when I voted in ‘92, I was called an angry white male. if I remember, it wasn’t meant as a compliment.
The virus will give you a break if you are a dog, but not if you are black or white.
“Why does she mention she is ‘black’ ? The virus doesn’t care what color your skin is. Viruses are no racists.”
I guess though, it really IS about Black Africa, because it seems as though many of these deadly viruses have their genesis in Black Africa. AIDS started there. So just what is different about Black Africa? I’d like to know. Is it lack of sanitation? Eating or Sex habits? I mean you can’t eat bats that carry the Ebola virus and expect to go on living. And maybe they should lay off having sex with animals. To my mind, the evidence points to these things being Black Afrocentric, and Africa has gone to Hell in a hand basket as the Black’s have taken over the “leadership” in one country there after another.
Come to think about it, we are experiencing the same thing here as Black “leadership” takes over an ever-increasing number of our larger cities. Detroit had the seeds of it’s destruction sown with the arrival of Coleman Young and his twenty-year reign as that city’s first Black mayor.
Me neither. I also don’t give a tinker’s damn about Sierra Leon or what happens to it.
Amen, brother.
The BRITS are sending Army med teams to Sierra Leone, we are sending them to Liberia, which has an actual US connection in its history.
The French are helping Guinea.
I don’t see why it’s the responsibility of outsiders to fix the Ebola problem. It’s a contagious disease, preventable by keeping well people away from sick people (who need to be treated by people already immune to the disease). The Firestone Rubber Company and Nigeria appear to have figured this out.
It’s not rocket science and it doesn’t take a lot of money, just a lot of common sense — which seems in short supply in this country as well as in the African countries where Ebola is common.
(Why the heck is Ebola capitalized? Because it was named after the Ebola River.)
Someone should start a dating service - “Angry White Men for Angry Black Women”.
A match made in heaven I’m guessing.
“If I could only go back in time and warn our founding fathers about slavery and the import of Africans into this country...”
I know a very smart man who is overweight and smokes. Every person in his family died of a smoking related illness in their early fifties. He’s thirty-eight and can’t quit. You’re talking about men whose wealth and position required money derived from the existing social order. Without those slaves they were just poor farmers. They were at least as addicted to the existing social order as the man who smokes knowing it will kill him. Much as I appreciate what they created they were still, as we are, creatures made by their time.
Ohh, a self-important angry black person! How novel!
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