Biden Administration's African Travel Ban (racist, Brown, leader, states)

[DRob4JC]

I'm old enough to remember when travel bans were racist and xenophobic. He bans African countries and no one bats at eye.

Ramaphosa gives US president’s democracy summit the cold shoulder

More than 100 leaders of democracies around the world attended US President Joe Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy this week. But President Cyril Ramaphosa declined an invitation to attend. Why?

Was it because China had dismissed the summit as a “complete farce” — almost certainly because Taiwan was among the countries invited.

Did Pretoria decline to avoid offending its close ally Beijing? And also perhaps Russia, which was not invited?

Or did Ramaphosa diss Biden because he is annoyed at the US — and other Western countries — for imposing a ban on South African visitors to stem the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus?

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From late November - President of South Africa Rages Against Travel Bans over Omicron Variant

In his national address on Sunday night, Ramaphosa appeared to channel growing frustration in South Africa that the nation is being “punished” with travel bans for simply being the first to identify and alert the world to Omicron. Scientists believe the variant originated in Botswana before traveling to the country.

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The president asserted that travel bans would only “further damage the economies of the affected countries and undermine their ability to respond to, and recover from, the pandemic.” He demanded the countries banning South Africans – which he listed to his citizens – “urgently reverse their decisions and lift the ban they have imposed before any further damage is done to our economies and to the livelihoods of our people.”

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As of Tuesday, South Africans can no longer enter the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, and Australia, among other countries. President Joe Biden announced a travel ban on South Africa – as well as Botswana and several other southern African countries – last week as a “precautionary measure.” While campaigning for president, Biden identified similar restrictions enacted by predecessor Donald Trump as indicative of “hysteria, xenophobia, and fearmongering.”

[andywire]

Clearly Joe Biden is trying to prevent black and brown people from coming to America. Without question, that makes him a racist. Can we get a response regarding this epic level of hypocrisy from the left? Of course not... Only crickets.

[Retroit]

Xoe Brandon wants to reimpose Apartheid in South Africa.