CORONAVIRUS AND AFRICANS

Coronavirus and Africans African Americans are often quite prominently noted, pictured, featured, in the United States of America’s media, when crime, disease, poverty, misery are indices. The practice is so notorious it’s almost a predictable fact. “White is right. Brown stick around. Yellow is mellow. Black get back”. This silly color scheme, a school yard meme is America . Therefore with the Coronavirus virus’ few reported cases of blacks being infected, the natural tendency, given Americans’ racist history, sociology, mythology about blacks, is to assume that there are none; or if some very few . Why else the silence? As though in confirmation of this “white” traditional paradigm, American billionaire, Bill Gates, whose philanthropy is reported to be of some value to Africa, in certain respects, has publicly commented that when Coronavirus reaches Black Africa, that the Subcontinent’s sad health care vulnerabilities would be on full display! Fortunately very few cases have thus far been reported in Black Africa, and fewer still are reported to be among indigenous Africans, compared to foreigners, tourists, tradesmen, visitors from Europe or Asia. This is not to state that the virus will not yet appear. After all, Africans have known viruses like the world had never seen! The earlier “Caucasian virus” affecting, destabilizing, enervating Africa was that woeful centuries-old slave trade of tens of millions of Africa’s best people to Western Asia, Western Europe, and to the “New World” of the Americas and the Caribbean Sea, by Muslims and Christians. Aspects of this earlier “Caucasian virus” endure. So, maybe God is granting us Africans a respite. Then again, maybe not. Either way, we will see and know soon enough. In the meantime, I expect a profusion of alleged scientific articles to be published attempting to explain away the yet small numbers of affected Africans abroad or at home, who may not have been hindered by Coronavirus, as having nothing to do with “race.” Such persons may claim no ‘race’ exists, as earlier integrationists did; for we are all the same they claim. We are indeed substantially similar in seminal respects, but there are still dissimilarities. Maybe Coronavirus has found that niche! https://www.reuters.com/ar…/china-health-gates-idUSL2N2AS1AV