Posted on 10/06/2014 12:38:40 PM PDT by absentee
video On MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show this weekend, the absent host's panel once again caused trouble, as they agreed that even proposing a ban on travel from Ebola outbreak nations is racist. Guests Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations and Frankie Edozien, New York Times columnist and editor of The AFRican Magazine, first raised the specter of slavery before going straight for the racist label:
GARRETT: "I was on Capitol Hill yesterday. I spoke to lot of the political leadership of the United States and I have to say I was stunned by how many felt the solution was to completely cut off Africa. no visas. no travel. Keep them out. And this is completely missing the point. The hysteria should not be about one person in Dallas. What the world should be hysterical about is that Africa is facing its greatest catastrophic crisis arguably since the days of slavery. This could turn into carnage across a whole region if the world does not assist immediately."
EDOZIEN: "That would never work. Keeping them out would not work. And the idea that you can keep out a whole group of people who are America's partners, whether we like it our not, West African nations are partners with this country ..."
GARRETT: And trying to do that racist. Let's us be frank about it.
EDOZIEN: Exactly. It's borderline racism and fear.
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I’ll bet that both of MSNBC’s viewers agreed with their stance.
They will destroy themselves.
I would not want to be them if this disease gets a foothold here. They haven't begun to see what people will do to save their families.
These Commie ‘RATS with their race cards and their political correctness are going to get us all killed.
I submit to you all that if “everything” is racist, then NOTHING is racist. The word “Racist” means nothing anymore, due to THEIR overuse and misuse of the term. “OK, I’m racist, now what, you illiterate liberal moron?”
Beat them at their own game and go full on racist—if for no other reason than to see their liberal heads explode!
(Please note a high level of sarcasm in this post....but then again...not THAT much! ;-)
Nothing will induce sanity faster than seeing your neighbor drop dead of an exotic disease.
Good. Then we know it’s the right thing to do.
and not proposing a ban on travel is irrational and suicidal
So the CFR wants you and me to die? Duly noted.
If fing Sweden was a hot bed of ebola id close travel from them too
Every cable/satellite user subsidizes these idiots.
What about the non-infected African countries that are restricting travel from Ebola-infected African countries?
Are THEY racist, too?
We need several on the scene reporters. So go for it.
Black olives are racist..../S
What does he mean SINCE the days of slavery? Slavery had yet to come to an end on the continent of Africa.
Not to mention the card game Blackjack...
Huh? ..on scene reporters? ...go for it?
that Africa is facing its greatest catastrophic crisis arguably since the days of slavery....Ummmm, they STILL are. By the likes of the Islamists. Like before, in the 1500’s, 1600’s, 1700’s and the 1800’s and beyond. How dense are these people?
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