Sunday Fox News interviewed a policeman who risked his own life by taking Weeks family into a safe and clean apartment…..Ronan Farrow is an insipid idiot who lets these outrageous accusations stand without challenge and Jesse Jackson is a superannuated race hustler…..rsk
Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who lied on his exit forms and brought Ebola to the United States, died today.
It took less than half a day for his family to come out and blame racism for Duncan’s death.
Jesse Jackson entered the story earlier this week. Today, Duncan’s nephew, Josephus Weeks, appeared on MSNBC with Ronan Farrow. Weeks clearly blamed the care that his uncle received on race.
Farrow interviewed Weeks before Duncan had even died, on Monday, but Jackson had already become part of the story by then. Farrow asked Weeks whether he believed that discrimination played a role in Duncan’s death.
“Well, yeah,” Weeks responded, “go in there and, like, you know, ostracized, you know, like we didn’t belong there.”
“The hospital? By who?” Farrow asked.
“The hospital, the staff, initially,” Weeks said. “We call, get hung up on, stay on hold for 30 minutes. Sometimes we call, get bounced around the hospital about 15 minutes get told we can’t speak. And after Reverend Jackson stepped in, and a lot of people started changing their minds and coming in to assist and, you know, more receptive to our needs.”
It’s hardly unusual for a hospital to bounce an incoming call around. It’s also hardly unusual for Jackson to suddenly start getting “results.” The threat of an expensive shakedown looms whenever he turns up. None of that speaks to racial discrimination.