Ebola Expert Demands Americans Die for White Guilt

According to a CNN expert we have to be willing to let millions of Americans die because of slavery.

On Anderson Cooper 360 Thursday, Ebola expert David Quammen argued that America had a “responsibility” to allow people from Liberia to fly into the country because of the legacy of American slavery.

Quammen: You can’t isolate neighborhoods, you can’t isolate nations. It doesn’t work. And people talk about, “Well, we shouldn’t allow any flights from Liberia.” I mean, we in America, how dare we turn our backs on Liberia given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery. We have a responsibility to stay connected to them and help them see this through.

I’m not sure how much Quammen knows about Ebola, but he doesn’t know a whole lot about Liberia.

Liberia is a state of historical irony. The black ex-slaves who went there tried to duplicate the South by setting up the plantation lifestyle complete with period clothing, names and manners.

And they set up slavery for the local African population. Liberia was a black South Africa.

Liberian history is fairly similar to American history not only because of a preference for names like Washington and Madison, but because it consisted of the African-American settlers fighting the native population, subduing them and settling their land.

There are some things to admire about the Liberians, unfortunately they don’t exist anymore, after a Liberian president began flirting with the USSR, a CIA coup led to the usual horrifying African bloodshed in which the native population began brutally raping, robbing and massacring the Libero-Americans. And then the usual coups and counter-coups followed.

Most of the Libero-American population left and moved to the United States.

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