{"id":4691,"date":"2001-07-30T19:50:04","date_gmt":"2001-07-30T18:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2014-06-11T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:30:11","slug":"african-advocacy-groups-call-for-dismissal-of-usaid-director-natsios-after-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/4691","title":{"rendered":"African advocacy groups call for dismissal of USAID director Natsios after &#8216;racist comments&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>African advocacy groups are calling for the dismissal of U.S. Agency for International Development Director Andrew Natsios based on his &#8220;shockingly racist comments&#8221; that many Africans &#8220;cannot tell time well enough to take anti-AIDS drugs,&#8221; the Washington Times reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When explaining on June 7 the Bush administration&#8217;s intention to focus on prevention over treatment, Natsios said that many Africans &#8220;do not know what watches or clocks are. They do not use Western means to tell time. They use the sun. These [AIDS] drugs have to be administered in certain sequences, at certain times during the day.&#8221; Africa Action, one of the &#8220;largest pro-Africa groups&#8221; in the United States, has urged Secretary of State Colin Powell to &#8220;repudiate&#8221; Natsios&#8217; comments. In a letter to Powell, Africa Action Director Salih Booker wrote, &#8220;We are writing to express our deep sense of outrage at the shockingly racist comments made by &#8230; Natsios. &#8230; Someone such as Mr. Natsios, with such ignorant and bigoted views, does not belong in a policy-making position and should be fired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter includes signatures from Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker of the Religious Action Network and Sharonann Lynch of the Health GAP Coalition. A spokesperson for Natsios said yesterday that he &#8220;meant no offence&#8221; by his comments (Morrison, Washington Times, 12\/06).<\/p>\n<p>Source: Kaiser Daily HIV\/AIDS Reports<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African advocacy groups are calling for the dismissal of U.S. Agency for International Development Director Andrew Natsios based on his &#8220;shockingly racist comments&#8221; that many Africans &#8220;cannot tell time well enough to take anti-AIDS drugs,&#8221; the Washington Times reports. When &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}