Poland: “Africans+AIDS+Poland=racism” · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

The beatroot writes about hysteria in the Polish tabloids: “Simon is pleading not guilty, of course. It's like one of those off-the-peg stories Polish tabloid journos dream of: ‘Black African artistic seducer infects innocent Polish girls with HIV!!! Knowledge about HIV – and Africans, for that matter – is very limited here. Just ripe for a scare story.”