Wapi nimekwambia kua nakubali mchina kumbagua black? mimi nalaani ubaguzi wa aina yeyote ile,soma tena nilichokiandika,
Halafu kwa akili yako ilivyo ndogo umeamua kunihukumu kama akili yako ilivyokutuma kwenye huo mstari wa mwisho.
Wewe ni nani mpaka unipangie cha kuchangia? hii ni mada ya ubaguzi na sijatoka nje ya mada, Safari moja huanzisha nyingine,Basi tulia kwenye mada inayohusu ubaguzi wa wachina dhidi ya mtu mweusi, kama unataka kuzungumzia ubaguzi mwingine anzisha mada, la sivyo tulia usituchanganyie madawa.
Wewe unadhani wanaochangia hii mada hawajui kuwa kuna ubaguzi wa aina nyingi?. Usitutoe kwenue reli wakati mada inalenga kuwaamsha watu juu ya ubaguzi wa hawa watu ili wawe makini nao, wasitiwe na upofu na propaganda za win-win
Wewe ni nani mpaka unipangie cha kuchangia? hii ni mada ya ubaguzi na sijatoka nje ya mada, Safari moja huanzisha nyingine,
Hii mada yenyewe kwa jinsi ulivyoiwasilisha pamoja na hii comment yako,hasa huo mstari wa mwisho unaonyesha uhalisia wako kua hata wewe ni mbaguzi tu.
JF is an open forums,ukisha weka mada hapa inakua sio yako tena na member yeyote anakua na haki ya kuchangia,jifikirishe kwanza kabla hujaendelea kujiaibisha hapa kwa kuandika vitu vya hovyo zaidi.Basi tulia acha kurukaruka
Changia mada au anzisha ya kwako
Hii mada nimeianzisha mimi, sasa usilete shobo
Mwandishi wa hii makala anaitwa Clare C, ni mtu aliyesoma China, anaelezea alivyokuwa akibaguliwa na wachina kwa mfano alikuwa akikaa kwenye seat kwenye chombo cha usafiri wachina wananyanyuka, wanadai eti waafrika tuna HIV na Ebola.
Alikuwa akipita njiani wanamchukua video, wanamkodolea macho. Akiripoti hili suala halichukuliwi hatua, sanasana wanamwambia hao ni watu wako curious tu, awapuuze.
Katika masuala ya kazi au vibarua huko China unakutana na matangazo ya waziwazi kuwa TUNATAKA MTU MWEUPE, MTU MWEUSI HATUMTAKI.
Mwandishi anaandika kuwa leo wachina wanalia kuchezewa faulo za ubaguzi duniani kwa sababu ya Corona, Wanaangaliwa kwa jicho baya, wanatengwa na kunyooshewa kidole kwa kuhofia kusambaza Corona lakini anawauliza hao wachina, je mmesahau ubaguzi wenu dhidi ya watu weusi katika nchi yenu?
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By :Clare C
I know by writing this article how you may take this and how I may be viewed by the general public. But somebody had to say something and I have waited long enough for somebody to say something yet nobody has come forward. So here I am, saying my peace.
Chinese nationals all over the world are crying foul over the way they being treated ever since this virus surfaced, how they get on public transport and people move away from them, how when they are walking in the street people point at them and move away from them and even worse, stare at them with horrified looks.
How some restaurants have even gone to the point of banning them. Chinese students are suffering at the hands of their classmates and teachers. In a nutshell, everyone wants nothing to do with them, because “they are a virus and they are filthy.”
In my opinion, they are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
I am an African, a black African. I walk in the streets of China every day and I get pointed at, they move out of my path when I come as if I will bite them.
When I sit on public transport they cover their mouths as if I smell, they change their seats, they take videos of me, and when I voice out how it makes me feel, IT NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES.
Instead, they say, oh Chinese people are just curious about you, or, it’s in your head, or better yet: “just ignore them.”
My classes are all in Chinese. I have been doing my major for over 5 years and in those 5 years, I have sat alone. I have been isolated by my own classmates and teachers included. I ask the Chinese nationals why do they treat us like this?
They tell me, well, it’s because Africans are poor and they have Aids. China has a huge HIV+ population yet my people suffer the blame. Does it ever make headlines? NO
When we complain, the first thing the Chinese people say is, "GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY! THIS IS CHINA!" Now, I wonder, should I say the same thing in this situation?
Maybe the Chinese people need to take a look in the mirror before they cry foul, maybe they need to take their own medicine, their own advice, JUST IGNORE IT. Stop making a spectacle out of the very same things you have been doing to my people.
Recently, a local phone company in China did an advert of Chinese wearing blackface and nobody batted an eye.
On national television (spring festival) there was a Chinese lady wearing blackface and dressed in artificial body features to imitate a black person.
Another advert about a laundry detergent featured a black man in the washer made to look unattractive is shoved by a Chinese woman into a washing machine to get "washed," who comes out white and attractive. This was all on NATIONAL TELEVISION!
You even go as far as to call us BLACK GHOSTS.
Many job applications clearly state "Whites" (“Europeans”) only, NO BLACKS!
So how dare you speak of racism.
How dare you try to play the victim when you are at the forefront? You go to my motherland and you abuse our kindness and call us names and make fun of our culture, our sacred way of life, where is our Justice!?
I sound like an angry black person because I am. I have been experiencing racism at the hands of Chinese, and I have made peace with the fact that this is how China is.
How about you do the same thing, accept your fate, “just forget about it”? Or maybe you can learn to treat other races with some respect?
What I am saying is, this virus is affecting everyone, and it is a problem for us all, the same thing with Ebola, my people are segregated, quarantined and faced a lot of racism. You are not the only ones going through this.
This is all our fight now. This virus doesn’t see color, doesn’t know about continents or ethnicity, it’s taking everyone. But leave racism out of this, it has no place in this situation, it does not fit.
STOP IT ALREADY.
You didn’t say a word about racism when it was happening every minute of every hour to Africans across China.
Tasfsiri kwa kiswahili:-
Na: Clare C
Najua kwa kuandika nakala hii jinsi unavyoweza kuchukulia hili na jinsi ninavyoweza kutazamwa na umma kwa jumla.Lakini mtu fulani alilazimika kusema jambo na nimngojea kwa muda mrefu kutosha mtu kusema kitu bado hakuna mtu aliyekuja mbele.Sasa niko hapa, akisema amani yangu.
Raia wa China kote ulimwenguni wanalia kwa uchungu juu ya jinsi wanachukuliwa tangu virusi vya ugonjwa huu, jinsi wanaingia kwenye usafiri wa umma na watu wanaogopa kukaa nao, ni vipi wanapokuwa wakitembea barabarani watu huwatazama kwa sura mbaya.
Jinsi migahawa mingine ilivyoenda hadi kufikia hatua ya kuwapiga marufuku. Wanafunzi wa Kichina wanateseka mikononi mwa wenzao wa darasa na waalimu. Kwa kifupi, kila mtu hataki chochote cha kufanya nao, kwa sababu "wanaonekana kuwa na virusi na wenye kupenda kula kila kitu."
Kwa maoni yangu, hatimaye wanapata ladha ya dawa yao wenyewe.
Mimi ni Mwafrika, Mwafrika mweusi.Ninatembea katika mitaa ya Uchina kila siku na huwa wananikwepa, hutoka kwenye njia yangu nitakapita kana kwamba nitawauma.
Ninakaa kwenye usafiri wa umma hufunika vinywa vyao kana kwamba ninanuka, hubadilisha viti vyao, hunichukua video, na ninapotoa sauti kulalamika jinsi inanifanya nihisi(kushtaki), HAKUNA LOLOTE AMBALO SERIKALI YAO HUFANYA.
Badala yake, wanasema, watu wa China wanavutiwa na wewe tu, au, iko kichwani mwako, au bora bado: "wapuuzi tu."
Darasa langu sote ni kwa Wachina.Nimekuwa nikifanya maonyesho yangu kwa zaidi ya miaka 5 na kwa miaka hiyo 5, nimekaa peke yangu.Nimewekwa pekee na wanafunzi wenzangu wa darasa na waalimu wamejumuishwa.Nikiwauliza raia wa China kwanini wanatutenga?...
Wananiambia, vema, ni kwa sababu Waafrika ni masikini na wana Ukimwi.China ina idadi kubwa ya watu walio na VVU lakini watu wangu wanapata lawama .Je hiyo imewahi kuwa na vichwa vya habari huko kwenye media?
Tunapolalamika, jambo la kwanza ambalo Wachina wanasema ni, "Nenda NCHINI KWAKO! HUKU NI CHINA!" Sasa, ninajiuliza, je! Ninapaswa kusema hivyo kwao kwa hali hii?
Labda watu wa China wanahitaji kutazama kwenye kioo kabla ya kulia kuwa mchafu, labda watahitaji kuchukua dawa zao, ushauri wao wenyewe, acheni kufanya vitu vile vile ambavyo umekuwa ukifanya kwa waafrika wenzangu.
Hivi majuzi, kampuni ya simu nchini China ilifanya tangazo la Wachina walivaa kinyago usoni cheusi na hakuna mtu aliyepiga jicho.
Kwenye runinga ya kitaifa (sikukuu ya masika) kulikuwa na mwanamke wa China aliyevaa mavazi nyeusi na aliyevaa vitu vya mwili bandia kuiga mtu mweusi.
Tangazo lingine juu ya sabuni ya kufulia lilionyesha mtu mweusi kwenye washer aliyetengenezwa ili kuonekana kuwa havutii na kutupwa na mwanamke wa China kwenye mashine ya kuosha "kuosha," ambaye alitoka mweupe na ya kumvutia huyo mwanamke.Hayo yote yalikuwa kwenye television(netari) ya Kitaifa!
Unaenda mbali hata kutuita RUVU ZA KIWANDA.
Matangazo mengi ya kazi yataja waziwazi "Wazungu" ("Wazungu") tu, HAKUNA mweusi anaruhusiwa kuomba!
Kwa hivyo China inathubutuje kusema juu ya ubaguzi wa rangi.
Je! Unathubutu kujaribu kucheza mwathiriwa wakati uko mstari wa mbele? Nenda kwa mama yangu na unanyanyasa moyo wetu na kutuita majina na kufanya mzaha kwa tamaduni zetu, njia yetu takatifu ya maisha, haki yetu iko wapi?
Ninasikika kama mtu mweusi aliyekasirika kwa sababu mimi nimekuwa nikiona ubaguzi wa rangi mikononi mwa Wachina, na nimefanya amani na ukweli kwamba hivi ndivyo ilivyo China.
Je! Vipi kuhusu wewe kufanya jambo lile lile, ukubali hatima yako, "usahau tu"? Au labda unaweza kujifunza kutibu jamii zingine kwa heshima fulani?
Ninachosema ni kwamba, virusi hivi vinaathiri kila mtu, na ni shida kwa sisi sote, kitu kimoja na Ebola, watu wangu wametenganishwa, wametengwa kwa watu wengine na wanakabiliwa na ubaguzi mwingi wa rangi. Sio wewe tu anayepitia hii.
Hii ni vita yetu yote sasa. Virusi hii haioni rangi, haijui juu ya mabara au ukabila, inachukua kila mtu. Lakini ondoa ubaguzi katika hili, hauna nafasi katika hali hii, haifai.
BONYEZA KWA ALIVYO.
Haukusema neno juu ya ubaguzi wa rangi wakati huo ulitokea kila dakika kwa kila saa kwa Waafrika kote Uchina.
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Ndugu Wewe unapenda kuchanganya na races zingine?Mimi hapana,najua thamani yangu.Baada ya maradhi haya, utaona harakati kubwa sana za serikali ya China kuwachanganya wachina na dunia. Tatizo litabakia labda kwa wahindi na waafrika wanaojiona wao ni bora kwa kuwabagua/kubaguliwa na races nyingine.
HAKUNA WATU WABAGUZI HAPA DUNIANI KAMA WATU WEUSI WACHINA,WAZUNGU,WAHINDI TUNAWASINGIZIA TUU.........Mwandishi wa hii makala anaitwa Clare C, ni mtu aliyesoma China, anaelezea alivyokuwa akibaguliwa na wachina kwa mfano alikuwa akikaa kwenye seat kwenye chombo cha usafiri wachina wananyanyuka, wanadai eti waafrika tuna HIV na Ebola.
Alikuwa akipita njiani wanamchukua video, wanamkodolea macho. Akiripoti hili suala halichukuliwi hatua, sanasana wanamwambia hao ni watu wako curious tu, awapuuze.
Katika masuala ya kazi au vibarua huko China unakutana na matangazo ya waziwazi kuwa TUNATAKA MTU MWEUPE, MTU MWEUSI HATUMTAKI.
Mwandishi anaandika kuwa leo wachina wanalia kuchezewa faulo za ubaguzi duniani kwa sababu ya Corona, Wanaangaliwa kwa jicho baya, wanatengwa na kunyooshewa kidole kwa kuhofia kusambaza Corona lakini anawauliza hao wachina, je mmesahau ubaguzi wenu dhidi ya watu weusi katika nchi yenu?
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By :Clare C
I know by writing this article how you may take this and how I may be viewed by the general public. But somebody had to say something and I have waited long enough for somebody to say something yet nobody has come forward. So here I am, saying my peace.
Chinese nationals all over the world are crying foul over the way they being treated ever since this virus surfaced, how they get on public transport and people move away from them, how when they are walking in the street people point at them and move away from them and even worse, stare at them with horrified looks.
How some restaurants have even gone to the point of banning them. Chinese students are suffering at the hands of their classmates and teachers. In a nutshell, everyone wants nothing to do with them, because “they are a virus and they are filthy.”
In my opinion, they are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
I am an African, a black African. I walk in the streets of China every day and I get pointed at, they move out of my path when I come as if I will bite them.
When I sit on public transport they cover their mouths as if I smell, they change their seats, they take videos of me, and when I voice out how it makes me feel, IT NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES.
Instead, they say, oh Chinese people are just curious about you, or, it’s in your head, or better yet: “just ignore them.”
My classes are all in Chinese. I have been doing my major for over 5 years and in those 5 years, I have sat alone. I have been isolated by my own classmates and teachers included. I ask the Chinese nationals why do they treat us like this?
They tell me, well, it’s because Africans are poor and they have Aids. China has a huge HIV+ population yet my people suffer the blame. Does it ever make headlines? NO
When we complain, the first thing the Chinese people say is, "GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY! THIS IS CHINA!" Now, I wonder, should I say the same thing in this situation?
Maybe the Chinese people need to take a look in the mirror before they cry foul, maybe they need to take their own medicine, their own advice, JUST IGNORE IT. Stop making a spectacle out of the very same things you have been doing to my people.
Recently, a local phone company in China did an advert of Chinese wearing blackface and nobody batted an eye.
On national television (spring festival) there was a Chinese lady wearing blackface and dressed in artificial body features to imitate a black person.
Another advert about a laundry detergent featured a black man in the washer made to look unattractive is shoved by a Chinese woman into a washing machine to get "washed," who comes out white and attractive. This was all on NATIONAL TELEVISION!
You even go as far as to call us BLACK GHOSTS.
Many job applications clearly state "Whites" (“Europeans”) only, NO BLACKS!
So how dare you speak of racism.
How dare you try to play the victim when you are at the forefront? You go to my motherland and you abuse our kindness and call us names and make fun of our culture, our sacred way of life, where is our Justice!?
I sound like an angry black person because I am. I have been experiencing racism at the hands of Chinese, and I have made peace with the fact that this is how China is.
How about you do the same thing, accept your fate, “just forget about it”? Or maybe you can learn to treat other races with some respect?
What I am saying is, this virus is affecting everyone, and it is a problem for us all, the same thing with Ebola, my people are segregated, quarantined and faced a lot of racism. You are not the only ones going through this.
This is all our fight now. This virus doesn’t see color, doesn’t know about continents or ethnicity, it’s taking everyone. But leave racism out of this, it has no place in this situation, it does not fit.
STOP IT ALREADY.
You didn’t say a word about racism when it was happening every minute of every hour to Africans across China.
HAKUNA WATU WABAGUZI HAPA DUNIANI KAMA WATU WEUSI WACHINA,WAZUNGU,WAHINDI TUNAWASINGIZIA TUU.........
YAANI TUKIWAONA WATU WEUPE TUNAANZA KUWASEMA HAWA NI WABAGUZI WAAFRICA TUWE KITU KIMOJA TUWAPINGE WABAGUZI
TUKIBAKI WENYEWE KWA WENYEWE TUNAANZA KUBAGUANA KWA MAKABILA NA DINI UTASIKIA MARA OHOO KABILA LILE HALIFAI KUSHIKA MADARAKA, MARA OHOO HUYU SIO MTANZANIA HALISI WENGINE WANAFIKA HATUA WANASEMA "TUUNDE UMOJA WA KABILA LETU NCHI NZIMA TUSAIDIANE SISI KWA SISI TUU"" BY GWAJIIII BOY .
KIUKWELI STAKI SEMA SANA ILA SISI WAAFRICA WABAGUZI NAMBARI MOJA APA DUNIAN
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Kudos Mkuu!!Hivi wewe kwa akili yako nani ameumizwa na ubaguzi wa rangi zaidi popote pale duniani, Mzungu au mweusi?
Umewahi kuona mtu mweusi anamuweka mzungu kwenye zoo ili watalii wamshangae?
Umewahi kuona Mweusi ananyanyuka kwenye seat ili asikae na mzungu?
Nani anarushiwa ndizi uwanjani, mzungu au mweusi
Umewahi kuona mweusi anafungua mgahawa na kisha kuandika BLACKS ONLY?
Umewahi kuona mweusi anafungua hoteli au Guest na kuzuia wateja wazungu wasiingie?
Sikiliza, Ubaguzi wa Mweusi ni ubaguzi wa kulipiza kisasi si ubaguzi halisi, ni ubaguzi wa kuonyesha protest ya ubaguzi mkubwa ambao wazungu waliufanya, ni ubaguzi wa hasira juu ya kuuzwa utwamwani, ukoloni, kudharauliwa, kubaguliwa kwa miaka mingi.
Sasa hawa wachina ni wafuata mkumbo tu, wanafuata yale ambayo wabaguzi wa kizungu walifanya kwa miaka 500 iliyopita.
Huwezi kutuita weusi ni wabaguzi zaidi kuliko wazungu wakati ushahidi uko wazi kuwa wageni wakija kwetu Afrika hawapati adha za ubaguzi kama mtu mweusi akienda kwao
Siasa iki-occupy eneo kubwa la ubongo Hata wakati wa tendo la ndoa na mkeo/mpenzio utaleta siasa, ikienda haja utafanya kisiasa na mambo mengiUbaguzi siyo ugenini tu ,hapa hapa Tanzania tunabaguana usiseme. Wapinzani utawala wa CCM ni sawa na wazalendo wa Afrika kusini enzi za apartheid.
Mbona waitali wairani nao wanatengwa haina hoja hioMwandishi wa hii makala anaitwa Clare C, ni mtu aliyesoma China, anaelezea alivyokuwa akibaguliwa na wachina kwa mfano alikuwa akikaa kwenye seat kwenye chombo cha usafiri wachina wananyanyuka, wanadai eti waafrika tuna HIV na Ebola.
Alikuwa akipita njiani wanamchukua video, wanamkodolea macho. Akiripoti hili suala halichukuliwi hatua, sanasana wanamwambia hao ni watu wako curious tu, awapuuze.
Katika masuala ya kazi au vibarua huko China unakutana na matangazo ya waziwazi kuwa TUNATAKA MTU MWEUPE, MTU MWEUSI HATUMTAKI.
Mwandishi anaandika kuwa leo wachina wanalia kuchezewa faulo za ubaguzi duniani kwa sababu ya Corona, Wanaangaliwa kwa jicho baya, wanatengwa na kunyooshewa kidole kwa kuhofia kusambaza Corona lakini anawauliza hao wachina, je mmesahau ubaguzi wenu dhidi ya watu weusi katika nchi yenu?
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By :Clare C
I know by writing this article how you may take this and how I may be viewed by the general public. But somebody had to say something and I have waited long enough for somebody to say something yet nobody has come forward. So here I am, saying my peace.
Chinese nationals all over the world are crying foul over the way they being treated ever since this virus surfaced, how they get on public transport and people move away from them, how when they are walking in the street people point at them and move away from them and even worse, stare at them with horrified looks.
How some restaurants have even gone to the point of banning them. Chinese students are suffering at the hands of their classmates and teachers. In a nutshell, everyone wants nothing to do with them, because “they are a virus and they are filthy.”
In my opinion, they are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
I am an African, a black African. I walk in the streets of China every day and I get pointed at, they move out of my path when I come as if I will bite them.
When I sit on public transport they cover their mouths as if I smell, they change their seats, they take videos of me, and when I voice out how it makes me feel, IT NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES.
Instead, they say, oh Chinese people are just curious about you, or, it’s in your head, or better yet: “just ignore them.”
My classes are all in Chinese. I have been doing my major for over 5 years and in those 5 years, I have sat alone. I have been isolated by my own classmates and teachers included. I ask the Chinese nationals why do they treat us like this?
They tell me, well, it’s because Africans are poor and they have Aids. China has a huge HIV+ population yet my people suffer the blame. Does it ever make headlines? NO
When we complain, the first thing the Chinese people say is, "GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY! THIS IS CHINA!" Now, I wonder, should I say the same thing in this situation?
Maybe the Chinese people need to take a look in the mirror before they cry foul, maybe they need to take their own medicine, their own advice, JUST IGNORE IT. Stop making a spectacle out of the very same things you have been doing to my people.
Recently, a local phone company in China did an advert of Chinese wearing blackface and nobody batted an eye.
On national television (spring festival) there was a Chinese lady wearing blackface and dressed in artificial body features to imitate a black person.
Another advert about a laundry detergent featured a black man in the washer made to look unattractive is shoved by a Chinese woman into a washing machine to get "washed," who comes out white and attractive. This was all on NATIONAL TELEVISION!
You even go as far as to call us BLACK GHOSTS.
Many job applications clearly state "Whites" (“Europeans”) only, NO BLACKS!
So how dare you speak of racism.
How dare you try to play the victim when you are at the forefront? You go to my motherland and you abuse our kindness and call us names and make fun of our culture, our sacred way of life, where is our Justice!?
I sound like an angry black person because I am. I have been experiencing racism at the hands of Chinese, and I have made peace with the fact that this is how China is.
How about you do the same thing, accept your fate, “just forget about it”? Or maybe you can learn to treat other races with some respect?
What I am saying is, this virus is affecting everyone, and it is a problem for us all, the same thing with Ebola, my people are segregated, quarantined and faced a lot of racism. You are not the only ones going through this.
This is all our fight now. This virus doesn’t see color, doesn’t know about continents or ethnicity, it’s taking everyone. But leave racism out of this, it has no place in this situation, it does not fit.
STOP IT ALREADY.
You didn’t say a word about racism when it was happening every minute of every hour to Africans across China.
Nakumbuka Kuna raia wa Malawi alifumwa akifanya mapenz** na mchina huko China alipigwa hadi akafa[emoji849][emoji849][emoji849]Mwandishi wa hii makala anaitwa Clare C, ni mtu aliyesoma China, anaelezea alivyokuwa akibaguliwa na wachina kwa mfano alikuwa akikaa kwenye seat kwenye chombo cha usafiri wachina wananyanyuka, wanadai eti waafrika tuna HIV na Ebola.
Alikuwa akipita njiani wanamchukua video, wanamkodolea macho. Akiripoti hili suala halichukuliwi hatua, sanasana wanamwambia hao ni watu wako curious tu, awapuuze.
Katika masuala ya kazi au vibarua huko China unakutana na matangazo ya waziwazi kuwa TUNATAKA MTU MWEUPE, MTU MWEUSI HATUMTAKI.
Mwandishi anaandika kuwa leo wachina wanalia kuchezewa faulo za ubaguzi duniani kwa sababu ya Corona, Wanaangaliwa kwa jicho baya, wanatengwa na kunyooshewa kidole kwa kuhofia kusambaza Corona lakini anawauliza hao wachina, je mmesahau ubaguzi wenu dhidi ya watu weusi katika nchi yenu?
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By :Clare C
I know by writing this article how you may take this and how I may be viewed by the general public. But somebody had to say something and I have waited long enough for somebody to say something yet nobody has come forward. So here I am, saying my peace.
Chinese nationals all over the world are crying foul over the way they being treated ever since this virus surfaced, how they get on public transport and people move away from them, how when they are walking in the street people point at them and move away from them and even worse, stare at them with horrified looks.
How some restaurants have even gone to the point of banning them. Chinese students are suffering at the hands of their classmates and teachers. In a nutshell, everyone wants nothing to do with them, because “they are a virus and they are filthy.”
In my opinion, they are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
I am an African, a black African. I walk in the streets of China every day and I get pointed at, they move out of my path when I come as if I will bite them.
When I sit on public transport they cover their mouths as if I smell, they change their seats, they take videos of me, and when I voice out how it makes me feel, IT NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES.
Instead, they say, oh Chinese people are just curious about you, or, it’s in your head, or better yet: “just ignore them.”
My classes are all in Chinese. I have been doing my major for over 5 years and in those 5 years, I have sat alone. I have been isolated by my own classmates and teachers included. I ask the Chinese nationals why do they treat us like this?
They tell me, well, it’s because Africans are poor and they have Aids. China has a huge HIV+ population yet my people suffer the blame. Does it ever make headlines? NO
When we complain, the first thing the Chinese people say is, "GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY! THIS IS CHINA!" Now, I wonder, should I say the same thing in this situation?
Maybe the Chinese people need to take a look in the mirror before they cry foul, maybe they need to take their own medicine, their own advice, JUST IGNORE IT. Stop making a spectacle out of the very same things you have been doing to my people.
Recently, a local phone company in China did an advert of Chinese wearing blackface and nobody batted an eye.
On national television (spring festival) there was a Chinese lady wearing blackface and dressed in artificial body features to imitate a black person.
Another advert about a laundry detergent featured a black man in the washer made to look unattractive is shoved by a Chinese woman into a washing machine to get "washed," who comes out white and attractive. This was all on NATIONAL TELEVISION!
You even go as far as to call us BLACK GHOSTS.
Many job applications clearly state "Whites" (“Europeans”) only, NO BLACKS!
So how dare you speak of racism.
How dare you try to play the victim when you are at the forefront? You go to my motherland and you abuse our kindness and call us names and make fun of our culture, our sacred way of life, where is our Justice!?
I sound like an angry black person because I am. I have been experiencing racism at the hands of Chinese, and I have made peace with the fact that this is how China is.
How about you do the same thing, accept your fate, “just forget about it”? Or maybe you can learn to treat other races with some respect?
What I am saying is, this virus is affecting everyone, and it is a problem for us all, the same thing with Ebola, my people are segregated, quarantined and faced a lot of racism. You are not the only ones going through this.
This is all our fight now. This virus doesn’t see color, doesn’t know about continents or ethnicity, it’s taking everyone. But leave racism out of this, it has no place in this situation, it does not fit.
STOP IT ALREADY.
You didn’t say a word about racism when it was happening every minute of every hour to Africans across China.