Ben Foden’s pregnant wife accused of racism for ‘blaming’ China for coronavirus

Ben Foden’s wife, Jackie Smith Foden, has been accused of racism over comments she made about coronavirus. 

Jackie had shared a post on her Instagram story reading: ‘China owns a lot of US’s debt, BUT how much death and danger have they put us in, and how much money and time and energy have we exhausted because of it, caused by China’s diseases that keep coming out of there, either accidentally or intentionally? 

‘Is that fair? Like if I owe you $100, and then you caused a bunch of deaths in my family, and I had to spend a lot of time, money and energy to prevent further deaths, do I still owe you that $100?

‘Like, clean your s**t up China, this isn’t the first time this has happened #forgivethedebt.’ 

Jackie then shared another post on her story, a screenshot of a message from one of her followers, reading: ‘Eh racism isn’t particularly helpful right now. I don’t think the USA is suffering like countries in the Third World that do and are repaying debt to the USA. White American privilege…’

She responded: ‘How is this racist?! How is it fair?? All these diseases coming out of there, either from poor regulation of meat centers or poor regulation from labs, or they intentionally doing it to cull their population, which, with this very convenient disease that only kills old sick ppl.

‘Just seems a lite (sic) too convenient, it’s not fair that we have to bankrupt our economy to deal with it, while still owing them the same amount of money? 

‘I’m not hating on the Chinese people, I’m talking about the government. That’s it.’