5 Feet of Fury

‘Ebola As Seen Through Ebonics’

Jim Goad writes:

But there’s a crucial difference between real conspiracies and really dumb conspiracy theories. If American authorities really sought to depopulate Africa—rather than, say, America—with Ebola, it’d make no sense for high rollers such as Barack Obama to have such a blasé, it-can’t-happen-here, open-door policy that allowed a handful of Ebola cases to start leaking onto these shores in the late summer. If people such as Louis Farrakhan and Cyril Broderick are indeed CIA puppets, it is far less likely that this is some grand conspiracy to annihilate black people than it is to make them look silly.