" You're Ebola" was Chanted at Two Senegalese Boys Bullied in Bronx, New York

Pape and Amidou were reportedly mobbed by bullies in the playground of Intermediate School at Bronx on Friday.  They are been stigmatised of Ebola because they are from West Africa living in the US.

"These kids didn't do anything wrong. They don't deserve to get beaten," their dad, Ousmane Drame, said at the Senegalese American Association in Harlem.

NYDaily reported that the two middle school students  recently moved to the Bronx from West Africa  and were been bullied and taunted by school colleagues  chanting “You’re Ebola!”

Ousmane Drame’s sons Pape, a 13-year-old eighth grader, and Amidou, an 11-year-old in sixth grade, were bashed by bullies at Intermediate School 318 in the Bronx on Friday, their dad said, flanked by a cadre of West African community leaders and elected officials.

Amidou and Pape were born in America, but had been in Senegal learning French, said their dad, a 62-year-old cab driver. Since moving here about a month ago, the boys’ experience at the Tremont school has been infected with fear. “They go to gym, and they say, ‘You don’t touch the ball, you have Ebola, if you touch it we will all get Ebola,’ ” their father explained.

Tensions bubbled over Friday when Amidou sneezed and a student shouted “Ebola, you’re Ebola!”  and a fight broke out, a police reported.

When Pape came over to defend his brother, he was beaten as well, the father said. The boys weren’t seriously hurt.