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One man puts the Ebola crisis into perspective for paranoid Americans who have no idea what Africa looks like

There have been ridiculous incidences of Ebola racism in recent weeks. These include a New Jersey elementary school that asked two students from Rwanda to stay at home and hundreds of parents in Mississippi who pulled their kids out of school because the principal attended his brother’s funeral in Zambia. These examples are despite the fact that both countries are thousands of miles away from West Africa and have not reported a single case of Ebola.

“Ignorance & misinformation is a big problem with Ebola.”