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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

China COVID Racism Against Blacks


People of African descent gather on a street in the "Little Africa" district in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province and southern China's largest city.

I Thought Only Whites Were Racist


(RFA)  -  African envoys in the Chinese capital Beijing have written a protest letter and governments of several African nations have summoned Chinese ambassadors following reports of forced coronavirus testing and quarantines, evictions from apartments and hotels, and other acts they said constituted racism against black people in the southern city of Guangzhou.
"The African Group of Ambassadors observes with consternation the discrimination and stigmatization of Africans whereby they are made to forcefully, and in a very crude manner to undergo epidemic investigation and Nucleic Acid Test, 14 days quarantine even if they had not traveled outside their jurisdictions, not come into contact with infected persons, not had close contact or showing any symptoms of the COVID-19," said the letter, dated April 10.
The envoys said that they had not been made aware of cases in which African nations had violated Chinese pandemic control laws, "Therefore, the singling out of Africans for compulsory testing and quarantine, in our view, has no scientific or logical basis and amounts to racism towards Africans in China," they wrote.
"We have received disquieting reports of inhuman treatments meted out to Africans particularly in Guangdong Province," said the letter, addressed to Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi.
Among examples of abuses the letter cited were Africans ejected from hotels in the middle of the night, African students singled out for coronavirus testing, Africans married to Chinese removed from their families and quarantined in hotels alone, the seizure of passports and threats of revocation of visas, arrest, detention and deportation of legal visitors "for no cogent reason," they said.
The group of African envoys "immediately demands the cessation of forceful testing, quarantine and other inhuman treatments meted out to Africans in Guangdong Province in particular and the whole of China," they wrote.
In African capitals, the foreign ministers of Uganda, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria have all summoned Chinese ambassadors in recent days after multiple reports and video clips emerged of evictions targeting African immigrants in the city as the authorities implement coronavirus quarantine and testing programs.
The Twitter account of Black Livity, a news and current affairs website for and about black people living in China, tweeted a video on April 11 of a laminated notice in English at a branch of McDonalds in China, which read: "We've been informed that from now on black people are not allowed to enter the restaurant."
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