Africans in Beijing harassed as Olympics approach

[elehhhhna]

Africans in Beijing harassed as Olympics approach
GEOFFREY YORK

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

July 18, 2008 at 7:10 PM EDT

BEIJING — Chinese police officials have forced some Beijing bar owners to sign secret pledges promising to prohibit blacks from entering their bars during the Olympics next month, a Hong Kong newspaper says.

The police denied the report Friday, and most bars denied any knowledge of the pledges. But many African residents of Beijing say they are facing harassment from police and discrimination from bars as the Olympics approach.

“Bar owners near the Workers Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises,” the South China Morning Post reported Friday.

It quoted the co-owner of a bar who said that a group of police had recently visited his establishment to order it “not to serve black people or Mongolians.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080718.wchina19/BNStory/International/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

[peacetalksforall]

1. Placeing the responsibilithy on the bar owners, keeping it secretive, not taking respnsibility, and

targeting "black people and Mongols" That's just great. (With all due sarcasm in case anyone doesn't realize).

[billyoc]

2. China makes real Communists throw up.

:puke:

[theoldman]

3. The problem that the Chinese people have with blacks goes

back to when Chairman Mao was in power. He brought in a lot of blacks from Africa and tried to force integration. Due to cultural difference, the blacks had difficulty assimilating. There was also the language barrier. Perhaps the biggest problem was just that the Chinese had never seen a black person.

[conspirator]

4. How can they have this attitude, when china is all over africa these days, exploiting resources

and workers?