If you had any lingering doubts about the unbroken link between racism and disease, then events of the past week should have opened your eyes. No sooner had South African scientists announced the discovery of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant on November 24, but the West reacted with a fierceness that would have embarrassed its colonial progenitors, from Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad to the streams of imperial missionaries and scientists sent to save and civilise the Dark Continent.
Instantly, flights from SA to the UK and, soon after, the US, were banned. This despite the variant also being found in Belgium and Hong Kong, and that little was known at the time about “the South African variant”, as some idiots on overseas television parroted their politicians. “South African countries”, said another geographic illiterate on NBC news in reference to the shutting off and shutting out of countries in the region.
We are on our own. No one owes us anything. The soonest everyone realizes that maybe the continent can move forward
You just know that when a commentator ascribes something to 'pure racism ', it means he hasn't done his research.
The west is busy with Russia and China
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