For one who often uses the phrase “ we don’t do that where I come from,” it was heart-warming to hear that Nigeria has beaten back the Ebola threat. The American media are urging the American government to study Nigeria’s Ebola containment strategy. Let’s hope there’s no resurgence.
The radical liberal media labels anyone who suggests a travel ban racist? Memo to them: Anyone who does not take care of his family is worse than an infidel, says the Bible. Charity begins at home, says secular wisdom.
I was delighted to hear Dr. Ben Carson on T.V denounce the racism charge tied to suggestions of a travel ban. Carson, a neurosurgeon, is the kind of African-American I go crazy about. He gained world-renown by separating co-joined twins. He has been injecting common sense into the political discourse and I hope he does go ahead and runs for the office of the presidency.
As an African I was pleased to hear the Liberian ambassador to the U.S apologise on T.V to the American people on account of his compatriot, Thomas Duncan, bringing the Ebola virus to the U.S. and infecting two nurses. The Liberals of America must have hated that because they would rather he advances their “America is racist” agenda. But he did say the American government should “isolate the Ebola virus but not the Liberian people.” How do you do that?
A travel ban may not be effective in fending off the Ebola threat, but it is not racist to advocate such a measure. Experts say health screenings at the airports are not effective in identifying Ebola virus infected travelers, so why are calls for a travel ban considered to be so outrageous by the Liberals? Nobody is calling the African countries which have instituted travel bans or travel restrictions racist. Better to strike with a hot rod when the threat is new, and cool it down as the threat cools off and a battle plan is drawn. The Liberal racism hawks should open up their homes to people from Ebola- ravaged countries to show how much they care about them.
As usual the Libs have been dismissive of those they label “alarmists” (realists, I would say) . They tell us the Ebola virus does not have wings and therefore cannot fly across the Atlantic ocean. That must be how you isolate the virus from people. And even if the virus could perform the transatlantic flight and land here, they said it would be quickly wrestled to the ground and subdued. They also tell us there is no need to secure the borders because the Ebola virus cannot sneak into the country. They send off their military to fight a virus but wont send them to do what they do best —- kill evil humans such as the ISIS terrorists.
The racism hawks seem to forget that people of different races, creeds and nationalities live in the U.S. and it is not just their usual target —- White people —- who will be protected by a travel ban. Liberians live in the U.S. too and they are the ones who would be probably the hardest hit by an Ebola virus outbreak here. Who else would possibly-infected friends and relatives from Liberia stay with?
Protecting the lives of Liberians in diaspora should actually be a policy of the Liberian government because they might become the remnant that will repopulate Liberia if the dire predictions regarding Ebola deaths there come to pass. There are other Africans living in the U.S. who should also be protected from Ebola.
If the bleeding heart White liberals do not care very much about protecting their own race, they should think of protecting the lives of ethnic minorities in the U.S. I hope they noticed that the first two victims of the Ebola virus in the U.S are not White. I cringed when I heard a liberal TV personality say only two people in the U.S. have been infected with Ebola, so there is no need for a travel ban. These radical liberals do not mind sacrificing American lives to advance their Liberal Ideology. To them, Other People’s Lives are as expendable as Other People’s Money (OPM).
The Liberian ambassador’s apology reminded me of a similar African sentiment expressed by the woman who was the South African ambassador to the U.S. in 2011 at a conference on HIV-AIDS soon after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The organisers of the conference feared funds would be diverted from the war on HIV-AIDS to the war on terror following the attacks, so they called upon the ambassador to make a case for the U.S. government’s continued financial support of HIV-AIDS initiatives. The ambassador instead said something along these lines, “According to our African tradition, when you go to the home of a neighbour who is in mourning, you do not bother him with your own woes.”
