Many back people left homeless and staying at streets of #China.
Because of recent Chinese policy, black people have become targets of suspicion & subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines & mass coronavirus testing.https://t.co/huUbhVZYjm
Racism amid pandemic: Africans in China face evictions, forced quarantining to ‘curb imported cases’
China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination by locals.
Published: 11th April 2020 11:57 AM | Last Updated: 11th April 2020 11:57 AM | A+A A-
BEIJING: Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections.
China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination by locals and virus prevention officials.
Local authorities in the industrial centre of 15 million said at least eight people diagnosed with the illness had spent time in the city’s Yuexiu district, known as “Little Africa”.
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Five were Nigerian nationals who faced widespread anger after reports surfaced that they had broken a mandatory quarantine and been to eight restaurants and other public places instead of staying home.
As a result, nearly 2,000 people they came into contact with had to be tested for COVID-19 or undergo quarantine, state media said.
Guangzhou had confirmed 114 imported coronavirus cases as of Thursday — 16 of which were Africans.
The rest were returning Chinese nationals.
It has led to Africans becoming targets of suspicion, distrust and racism in China.
Several Africans told AFP they had been forcibly evicted from their homes and turned away by hotels.
“I’ve been sleeping under the bridge for four days with no food to eat. I cannot buy food anywhere, no shops or restaurants will serve me,” said Tony Mathias, an exchange student from Uganda who was forced from his apartment on Monday.
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“We’re like beggars on the street,” the 24-year-old said.
Mathias added that police had given him no information about testing or quarantine but instead told him “to go to another city”.
Police in Guangzhou declined to comment when contacted by AFP.
A Nigerian businessman said he was evicted from his apartment earlier this week.
“Everywhere the police see us, they will come and pursue us and tell us to go home. But where can we go?” he said.
Other Africans said the community had been subject to mass COVID-19 testing even though many had not left China recently, and placed under arbitrary quarantine at home or in hotels.
China has banned foreign nationals from entering the country and many travellers are being sent into 14-day quarantines either in their own accommodation or at centralised facilities.
Thiam, an exchange student from Guinea, said police ordered him to stay home on Tuesday even after he tested negative for COVID-19 and told officers he had not left China in almost four years.
He believes the measures are specifically and unfairly targeting Africans.
“All the people I’ve seen tested are Africans. Chinese are walking around freely but if you’re black you can’t go out,” he said.
Denny, a Nigerian trader evicted from his flat on Tuesday, said police moved him to a hotel for quarantine after he spent several days sleeping on the streets.
“Even if we have a negative test result, police don’t let us stay (in our accommodation) and they don’t give a reason why,” he said.
The infections in Guangzhou have sparked a torrent of abuse online, with many Chinese internet users posting racist comments and calling for all Africans to be deported.
Last week a controversial cartoon depicting foreigners as different types of trash to be sorted through went viral on social media.
“There’s just this crazy fear that anybody who’s African might have been in contact with somebody who was sick,” said David, a Canadian living in Guangzhou who did not want to give his full name.
China’s foreign ministry acknowledged this week that there had been some “misunderstandings” with the African community.
“I want to emphasise that the Chinese government treats all foreigners in China equally,” said spokesman Zhao Lijian on Thursday, urging local officials to “improve their working mechanisms”.
The complaints in Guangzhou contrast with a welcome reception to Chinese efforts in battling the coronavirus across the African continent, where Beijing this week donated medical supplies to 18 countries.
“When China engages Africa it’s the central government that does that, but when it comes to immigration enforcement that happens at the local level,” said Eric Olander, managing editor of the China Africa Project.
“That explains why there’s an inconsistency in the more upbeat messaging we hear about Chinese diplomacy on the continent and the increasingly difficult realities that African traders, students and other expatriates face in their day-to-day lives in China.”
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lostlegends
3 years ago
This is the case all over China and is not just blacks but all foreigners including whites.
It is just blacks when it comes to restaurants and takeaways, they clearly state that they do not serve blacks.
Dan Knight
3 years ago
The Chicoms own the Enemedia …
… or they would own the Enemedia
… if they had to pay for Commie-loving pressitutes …
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Philip
3 years ago
What do you call a black guy in China if you’re the liberal media? An African-Chinese-American? Wow, that’s pretty much unimpeachable among modern liberals. Such an individual could get into any Ivy League school for free! Damn my white skin, sexuality, and heritage, it’s such a “toxic” weakness in modern society, unfortunately. God bless the melanin blessed in China, I guess.
felix1999
3 years ago
China is still trying to push the idea that the Chinese virus was IMPORTED in to them. Forget the virius originated in China.
Pssst, the Chinese are ahem, a tad racist too. The Chinese elites look down on them….
TD
3 years ago
Ironic. the SJWs are upset we blame China; saying it’s racist to to call it the “chinese virus”.
Look at this op-ed by the Guaridan:
“Blaming China for coronavirus isn’t just dangerous. It misses the point”
by Andrew Liu
Just wait til China takes over all of the continent of Africa! Not good!!
I’ve seen & heard this from China for years. They seem to really dislike black people. They make fun of them & say they’re dirty & not good looking. And I’m putting what they really say kindly because it is too awful to post the real words they use. Some are fake to them because they want all of Africa for themselves.
Chinese and black Africans can DO WHAT THE HELL THEY LIKE. AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT COME HERE!!
OR near me.
Verk
3 years ago
But all the genius brilliant leftard SJW feminoid idiots in the West keep telling us – incessantly, loudly, hysterically, rabidly – that “diversity is our strength? Why don’t they go and tell the lovely chingchongs?
cjkcjk
3 years ago
So China is acting EXACTLY like the Africans would if everything were reversed. American blacks would act twice as worse if they could.
Speaking the TRUTH, the new racism
No, no, africans and american blacks would literally slaughter them, probably in a very halal manner.
tituspullo
3 years ago
so when should we expect an explosive response from the NBA, LeBron, James Harden, and all the other black athletes on the planet who hate america regarding the blatant racism of the chinese and the lack of diversity in china? Oh, i forgot, those guys are all democrats, and it’s only white americans that they hate
eassa
3 years ago
“BEIJING: Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections.”
The key words are imported infections. The Communist Party’s propaganda is stirring throughout China declaring the Wuhan Virus was imported, that China is not responsible for the virus. At present, blacks are being most severely targeted; being evicted and unable to rent rooms in hotels, therefore living on the streets.
However, westerners, especially Americans are next in line. Vicious behavior toward my daughter-in-law took place this weekend as she was shopping at a grocery. The Communist Party is making it very difficult for her and the children to leave China without heavy penalties as it is in the process of expelling my son. Hopefully the American Embassy and the State Department will bring about a solution to their difficulties.
There is no doubt that the Communist Party is using this Wuhan Virus to their advantage as they work toward their national and political goals.
Thank you. They will be under quarantine when they return, and I very much hope they will get out of China soon!
The Chinese Christians are being persecuted in ways that Americans can hardly imagine or understand, they need our prayers as they must live under the boot of Communism. Communism is such a perverted system to live under, and it is obvious the Democrats are playing copy-cat with this political perversion.
Jan Hellsund
3 years ago
Chinese have NEVER liked blacks. Why were the Nigerians even there?
John Acord
3 years ago
Chinese fear of blacks is not a new development but has been a feature of Chinese society for many hundreds of years. A little known fact is China imported black slaves in substantial numbers from the Muslim slave markets. The Imperial Government licensed the trade with the provision that all be castrated prior to entering China.
Stephen Honig
3 years ago
The truth is they don’t want blacks in China. Imagine riots if we did it in America!
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