{"id":15263,"date":"2014-08-19T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T08:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15263"},"modified":"2014-08-19T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T08:17:29","slug":"africans-unwelcome-as-ebola-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15263","title":{"rendered":"Africans unwelcome as Ebola threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With ethnic relations once again making headlines in America, racism elsewhere can sometimes make discrimination appear relatively minor by comparison. Consider what those of African origin face when living or traveling in Asia, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s illustration comes from Twitter, where one restaurant in South Korea is refusing to serve black people due to fears over Ebola!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the outrage were this sign to appear anywhere in the United States:<a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ebolakorea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ebolakorea-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ebolakorea\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that many American soldiers stationed in Korea are African-American, it\u2019s hard to believe this isn\u2019t generating more attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebola gives pub excuse to bar black people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[4525,9740,9128,9739,157],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-asia","tag-bar","tag-ebola","tag-korea","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15266,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions\/15266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}