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Chinese: Racist against Africans at Home, ‘Humble’ Abroad
While the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, the epicenter of the virus has launched a racist manhunt on black people in China. Since China has reported low levels of new coronavirus cases, it has heightened the level of test and forced quarantine of people with African descent. According to BBC News, hundreds of African residents and business people in China’s southern city of Guangzhou have been evicted from hotels and apartments.
The residents who ascertain that they have paid their rents as required, have been kicked out of their apartments and are now spending their nights out in the cold. Others have been put in forced quarantines without knowing their forced test results. These measures have been justified by the Chinese government that is arguing that there is a fear of a new wave of the virus being imported into the country, and supposedly, it is the black community that is transmitting it. Memes and photos depicting a black man being thrown into waste bins and disinfected by people in hazmat suits for supposedly breaching China’s strict lockdown restrictions have gone viral in the Chinese Weibo social media platform.
As I shared in my ‘Racist Coronavirus Myths’ piece, the Chinese are facing global xenophobia and have been victimized as the face of the virus. According to ABC News, in Australia alone…
