US: African Boys Attacked at Bronx School

[hawkeye]

Bullying is just awful:

African Boys Attacked at Bronx School, Called "Ebola": Advocacy Group

A group that advocates for Africans in the Bronx is calling for action after it says two brothers who had recently immigrated to the borough from Senegal were beaten and severely injured by several people who called them ?Ebola.?
The boys, in sixth and eighth grade, were attacked Friday afternoon at I.S. 318 in Tremont, according to the African Advocacy Council.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...ed-Bullying-IS-318-Tremont-NYC-280519232.html

 

[Emily]

Re: US: African Boys Attacked at Bronx School

They pay the price for poor public policy and the fearmongering that is for lucrative to others.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-bullies-shun-african-immigrants-schoolyard-panic-n235456

Ebola Bullies Shun African Immigrants in Schoolyard Panic
By Susan Donaldson James
Children from Africa with no connection to the Ebola virus have been shunned at schools across the country because of something that may be far more contagious: bullying.

In New York City, two Senegalese brothers ? only 11 and 13 ? were beaten so badly on the playground that they were taken to a hospital emergency room. Their bullies chanted: ?Ebola! Get away from here!? ...
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At a high school soccer game in Nazareth, Pennsylvania...
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In Staten Island, a 6-year-old who used to be proud to call himself Liberian...
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And in Texas...she educated the principal that Ebola is not in every African country,? she told NBC News.
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