*The alleged propaganda machine known as the Chinese government has responded to the international criticism against the discrimination of Africans in the southern city of Guangzhou amid the coronavirus pandemic.
According to numerous reports and online personal accounts, Africans are being denied access to hotels, apartments, supermarkets, and public transport in China to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Popular YouTuber Professor Black Truth noted “The Chinese government targeted Africans in 2004 before the Olympics and now they’re doing it again in the name of “preventing the spread of Covid-19. The US has already been waging a war to make blacks the face of the virus to justify their own pre-planned “solution,” ” he wrote.
A commenter under PB’s latest video titled, “US & China Use Covid-19 To Target Blacks. A Pretext For Ethnic Cleansing,” made a valid point in the comment section of the clip, writing: “Notice how the same people who were crying about don’t be mean to Asians. They are very quiet now that Africans are being mistreated by Asians. Remember there’s always going to be some idiot that going to tell people of African descent that we should be forgiving and turn the other cheek. While at the same time co-signing the other groups mistreatment of people of African descent.”
OTHER NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: ‘For The Record’ Podcast: George Wallace Talks Quarantine & New Projects with Jamie Foxx & Laverne Cox (Listen)
One Twitter user wrote, “China Must Explain How Coronavirus could reach Africa without getting to Beijing and Shanghai China Must Explain how they can blame Africans for infecting them with Coronavirus when the virus originated from Wuhan, China. China Must Explain why they eat Bats.”
Another added, “When COVID-19 is done, [the] world MUST hold China accountable for Crimes Against Humanity. Just like Holocaust, China unleashed either thru their foods or labs an epidemic, hid it, muffled whistleblowers. China MUST pay reparations to countries affected.”
A third wrote, “I feel angry too. How can they double standards? They accused people [of] being racist to them in the early outbreak but now actually they do what they accused to African friends.”
Nigeria and Kenya have officially condemned attacks against their citizens.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government said it rejected all “racist and discriminatory” remarks.
Via Yahoo:
Africans in the industrial centre of 15 million say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing, particularly as Beijing steps up its fight against imported infections.
The African Union expressed its “extreme concern” about the situation on Saturday, calling on Beijing to take immediate corrective measures.
The United States, meanwhile, denounced what it called “xenophobia towards Africans by Chinese authorities.”
“The Chinese government has been attaching great importance to the life and health of foreign nationals in China,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in a statement.
“The Guangdong (provincial) authorities attach great importance to some African countries’ concerns and are working promptly to improve their working method,” he added.
Zhao said officials in Guangdong rejected “all racist and discriminatory remarks.”
Over the past 20 years, China has made massive investments towards the restructuring (economically and socially) of Africa.
“China-Africa friendship is unbreakable as it is deeply rooted in this land,” Zhao said.
We Publish News 24/7. Don’t Miss A Story. Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE to Our Newsletter Now!
