African immigrants fear Ebola backlash as Dallas patient fights for life

[theHandpuppet]

I was afraid a reaction like this might develop.

Raw Story
African immigrants fear Ebola backlash as Dallas patient fights for life
Reuters
06 Oct 2014

Some African immigrants in Dallas are worried that the case of a Liberian man who is sick with the Ebola virus in a city hospital is generating ill-feeling, including some taunts and finger-pointing, toward the wider community.

“Some people around here see us as bringing the disease and that’s just not right,” said a Liberian who asked to be called Sekou...

...Some immigrants from Somalia wearing traditional clothing that includes headscarves for women, say they have seen fingers pointed their way on the neighborhood streets.

“People are looking at us in a bad way. We didn’t have anything to do with this. Somalia does not have Ebola. It is on the other side of Africa,” said Shadiya Abdi, 27, an immigrant from Somalia....

MORE at http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/african-immigrants-fear-ebola-backlash-as-dallas-patient-fights-for-life/

[dembotoz]

1. yea we are such a nice people

[Uben]

2. Of course they do......

...anyone who is not white, conservative, or a religious nutcase, is different, and they don't like different. These are people who believe everything they hear but chose to only listen to propaganda. In other words. complete idiots!

[MineralMan]

3. Just another excuse to ramp up the racism.

Racists are ignorant people in the first place. They've never looked at a map of Africa. They don't understand health issues. They're stupid beyond all belief.

They were racists before the Ebola patient showed up, and they're still racists. They will be deliberately ignorant of the facts for as long as they live, for the most part.

Racists are an embarrassment for the United States.