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NBC Was Wrong: Federal Charges Have Not Been "Ruled Out" for Gov. Christie

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus9/19/2014 5:49:02 pm PDT

Ebola scares worldwide - will it get worse?

The West ignores the stories of Africans in the middle of the Ebola outbreak

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.