As Americans succumb to Ebola panic, their response seems to have taken an ugly turn, particularly toward those of African descent. With Rwandan children at one New Jersey school being pressured to stay home and a high school soccer player of Guinean origin facing “Ebola” chants during a match, it looks like racism and xenophobia are exacerbating the hysteria. In a HuffPost Live conversation, HuffPost Politics reporter Sabrina Siddiqui questioned the less-than-rational approach to disease prevention that many Americans have taken. “There is suddenly all of this hysteria about someone being from Rwanda and being ill, not recognizing the vast amount of difference from Rwanda to West Africa, which is the distance from here to Europe,” she told host Alyona Minkovski. Some of this fearful response reflects an ignorance of Africa’s geography and its diverse populations, Siddiqui said. The tendency of Westerners to treat Africa as a monolithic entity has also had implications in the political realm.

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