Posted on 10/08/2014 9:21:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The first time a reporter asked a CDC representative whether Thomas Duncan — the first patient to receive an Ebola diagnosis in the US — was an American citizen, the question seemed pretty tame. One could excuse it as a general inquiry about the Duncan’s nationality during the first press conference announcing his diagnosis. But after the CDC declined to answer, the question kept coming. "Is he a citizen?" reporters repeatedly asked. "Is he one of us?" they meant.
The current Ebola crisis has been tinged with racism and xenophobia. The disease rages in West Africa, and has therefore largely infected people of color. But somehow Americans were among the first to get a dose of Zmapp — the experimental anti-Ebola drug — this summer, despite the fact that Africans have been dying from the current Ebola epidemic since its emergence in Guinea in December. There are a lot of reasons for that, of course. The drug is potentially dangerous and only exists in short supply. It’s also extremely costly. And it originated in Canada, so it's unsurprising that North America controls its use.
And now that Ebola has "reached" the US, American privilege — white privilege, especially — is floating to the surface, in even less subtle ways....
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
Fat, drunk, stupid, and liberal is no way to go through life my dear.
I am sick to death of Anti-White Racists.
Her personal styling goal; to look like Justin Beiber with a pomaded pompadour. Her result; a big nosed, big haired girl with an attitude.
What is that thing?
Chupacabra?
I wonder if the author is related to Miss Cleo?
The root of the question - the question BEHIND the question asked - is whether Duncan had a right to be in the United States, in my opinion. If he is here illegally, it is another nail in the open borders coffin.
Actually it's just getting pretty ridiculous.
BINGO.......Arielle Duhaime-Chupacabra-Ross !
Another failed fashion addict
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