Civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson is meeting the family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who traveled to the US without being aware that he was infected with Ebola. Duncan is fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital. Jackson said the Duncan family has requested his visit. The Reverend wrote on Twitter that he hopes to “bring comfort and to seek best humanitarian relief American has to offer.”
Rev. Jackson wrote a column for the Chicago Sun-Times — Ebola: Fight the Disease, Not the Victims. He wrote: “In Jesus’ time, lepers were trated as unclean, sowing fear and hatred. On one of his last nights, Jesus stayed at the home of Simon the Leper. He showed that we should be fighting the disease, not the person. That is a lesson we should remember in the days ahead of us.”
