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Why does America have a ‘special’ relationship with Liberia?

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So, how did Liberia come about? Well, it’s mostly to do with racism — many whites just didn’t like seeing free blacks. The solution people came up with was colonization.

Health workers wearing protective clothing disinfect themselves after an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms was found at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 17, 2014.

This American doctor says racism is to blame for the slow response to the Ebola outbreak

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