Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade.
President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from entering the United States.
Starting on Monday, the administration will prohibit travelers from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi from coming to the United States, the officials said.
(The New York Times, November 27, 2021)
No doubt you recall the way Western leaders roundly criticized Trump for restricting travel from predominantly Muslim countries last year. Yet Biden is among these leaders now falling over themselves to restrict travel from predominantly Black countries.
Do you suppose those in the media who called Trump’s political stunt a Muslim ban will now call Biden’s a Black ban…? Ha!
But their hypocrisy is even more insidious than that. Because they also criticized Trump for defiantly refusing to heed scientific advice. Yet they are blithely ignoring the consensus among scientists that travel restrictions will do little to curb the spread of this new variant.
As no less an authority than Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted on CNN today, it’s probably already here in the predominantly white United States, just as it’s been detected in predominantly white Belgium.
So why this willful scapegoating of Africa…again…?
And I won’t dignify the situational ethics of Democrats who were so quick to damn Trump. Their deafening silence speaks volumes.
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