Scapegoating

In recent news, I have read reports about how the Chinese in China are scapegoating black people for the rise in the
cases of COVID-19. This is actually true because I have seen videos and read reports about how African expats mostly in
Guangzhou, China have been wrongfully evicted out of their apartments that they have paid their rents for, and made them
sleep on the streets. All because these Chinese have chosen to scapegoat Africans for the rise in COVID-19 when the main fault has
to be against the Chinese themselves. COVID-19 didn't originate in Africa, it originated in China. Not to mention how a local McDonald's
restaurant had signs up that forbid black people from entering to order food. Sounds more like apartheid South Africa and Jim Crow USA.
I am not surprised that Chinese have been that ignorant to be inspired by Jim Crow.

This makes me look back to that job offer I had back in 2017 to work in Shenzhen, China. I look back and I said to myself, thank
God I made a wise decision to not accept that job offer in China. Because even though I am a Canadian, if I had accepted that job offer in Shenzhen, and I had my contract renewed there until now, I would most likely be sleeping on the streets because I am a black man falsely blamed for the rise in COVID-19 cases.

Let me get this straight. I am not racist against Chinese people, but throughout the years since I was born and raised in Canada, what I have noticed about Chinese people is that they have a very high business profile as a racial/ethnic minority group, but I have never seen a Chinese-owned business in Canada hire a black person, (but Chinese people have offered me a job in China). If a Chinese person in Canada makes money, 90% of the money they spend would circulate into the Chinese community. In fact, if I was in Canada working right now like I did last year, even if I as a black man was in Canada right now making more money than a Chinese-Canadian person, that Chinese-Canadian would have 90% of his/her spending money circulating into the Chinese community as opposed to me who would only be able to use 10% of my spending money into the black community. Hence, 90% of the dollar stays within the Chinese community while only 10% stays within the black community. So what is the point of this I am mentioning? Well, here's the point, I as a black man should never spend my money into any business that is owned by people that do not respect be for being a black man. And because China has scapegoated black people in China over the rise in COVID-19 cases, I am advocating for all black people to boycott China. Do not spend your money in a country where people do not respect you because of your skin color.

I am also imploring black people around the world outside of China, to boycott Chinese-owned business establishments. (But if you have a Chinese doctor assigned to you at a non-Chinese-owned hospital or clinic, he/she is an exception). The reason I say this is not because I want to create racial division between blacks and Chinese, it is because I want to send a message to Chinese people that racism is immoral and inhumane, and that the silence that Chinese people have about anti-black racism is a sign that indicates that they are condoning racism. This is why I strongly encourage black people to support black-owned business. The black barbershop is the bread and butter of the black community's economic well-being, on the other hand black people also need to support other black owned-businesses, whether they are restaurants, music stores, auto garages, real estate agents, and lawyers etc. In the USA there is a resurgence of black-owned banks, and there is the African-based Zenith bank where black people can invest money. I also encourage black people to start their own businesses.
And speaking of African-based, there are around a dozen black billionaires in the world today, and the majority of black billionaires are based in the African continent. They have a duty to help their own Africans as well as look about for the international black community.

I am not pushing for any segregation, but I can tell you that if I started my own business as a black man, I would look out for the black community to provide employment and to gain support. However if I want to hire any white person, or Chinese person to work for me, I will do that.

So because China is scapegoating Africans, remember, if they mess with black folks from Africa, they mess with all black people.

An aside here, but kind of related with Asian tending not to hire outside of their ethnic group...

I once was in a Korean restaurant with a black waiter in the 90s. Anyways, he was pretty fluent in Korean, but had a weird accent especially for a non-Korean. My friend asked about it, turned out he spent like 7 years at a North Korean University back in the day before the collapse of the communist block. He was from some former communist African country. Can't remember where he was from exactly either Guinea, or Congo, or somewhere there. He was pretty studious therefore chosen to attend an overseas university by his country. While most of his chosen countrymen chose to go to places like Russia, Cuba, and East Germany, he decide on North Korea.

We asked why he was working as a waiter, said he graduated, so the North Koreans no longer wanted him around. Was pretty hard getting a working visa for south Korea in the 90s especially as an African man, and someone we visited North Korea, and from a communist country, his home country was a mess, so he decide to go to Canada. And it's not like an African immigrant to Canada, who speaks Korean, would see many employment opportunities, so he ended up in some Korean restaurant. Also, helped that the restaurant's owner's hometown was in North Korea. Lots of North Koreans ended up in the US, and Canada, after the Korean War btw...

Would anyone be interested in meeting (or zooming) to talk about these type of things? Would love to sound off on some things but previous non-harmful posts have been locked on here before.

Would anyone be interested in meeting (or zooming) to talk about these type of things? Would love to sound off on some things but previous non-harmful posts have been locked on here before.

i doubt many would want to reveal their true identities here, but i may be wrong

It's good that you're raising awareness, but there has never been a time when China was not INCREDIBLY racist.

The CCP have gotten quite good at using racism, xenophobia and intolerance as a tool to stay in power these past 70yrs.

It's good that you're raising awareness, but there has never been a time when China was not INCREDIBLY racist.

I'm assuming you're just referring to the current Republic of China as of 1949.

I'm assuming you're just referring to the current Republic of China as of 1949.

Republic of China? That's Taiwan... but let's not go there, those names are confusing enough. I assume you mean Mainland China/PRC?

Yes, even before that asswipe Mao came along, China was racist and xenophobic... like almost every country was.

Racism and xenophobia was a survival mechanism and in a time when half the world was trying to invade and conquer the other half, people and countries learned to view outsiders with suspicion. You could say, racism and xenophobia was justified in those days.

While it's still prevalent everywhere, most countries' governments are at least trying to discourage it. Not the mainland, racism and xenophobia has always been state sponsored... maybe not, during a brief period in the 90s and early 2000s.

Republic of China? That's Taiwan... but let's not go there, those names are confusing enough. I assume you mean Mainland China/PRC?

Yes, even before that asswipe Mao came along, China was racist and xenophobic... like almost every country was.

Racism and xenophobia was a survival mechanism and in a time when half the world was trying to invade and conquer the other half, people and countries learned to view outsiders with suspicion. You could say, racism and xenophobia was justified in those days.

While it's still prevalent everywhere, most countries' governments are at least trying to discourage it. Not the mainland, racism and xenophobia has always been state sponsored... maybe not, during a brief period in the 90s and early 2000s.

Sorry, you are right I did mean the People's Republic of China. Anyways, way back during the Yuan Dynasty when the Mongols had their stint at the thrown it was quite diverse. Any conquered peoples were free to roam virtually anywhere throughout the empire, with the exception of what the Mongol rulers considered scared (basically their hometowns). They even had a few non-Mongols, including South Asians, and Arabs, as high level ministers.

Chinese people living in the West (and Asians in general) throw a fit whenever they are accused of having dual loyalties, or of favoring China over their adopted home countries. Yet time and time again their loyalty to China is exposed. Time and time again they commit espionage for China, or help the CCP to weaken their adopted home countries.

I always laugh when Chinese nationalists cry about being discriminated against on these grounds. They think they're so clever and so much smarter than us dumb uncivilized Westerners, yet they get caught again and again. They think they can just change the subject by crying about racism and lying about what they're doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/world/australia/australia-china.html

In a gold-curtained meeting room in Sydney, the Chinese consul general appealed to a closed-door gathering of about 100 people, all of them Australian residents and citizens of Chinese ancestry.

He called on the group to help shape public opinion during a coming visit of China’s prime minister, Li Keqiang, in part by reporting critics to the consulate. Rallies in support of China should be coordinated, he suggested, and large banners should be unfurled to block images of protests against Beijing.

“We are not troops, but this task is a bit like the nature of troops,” said the diplomat, Gu Xiaojie, according to a recording of the session in the consulate obtained by The New York Times and verified by a person who was in the room. “This is a war,” he added, “with lots of battles.”

The previously unreported meeting in March 2017 is an example of how the Chinese government directly — and often secretly — engages in political activity in Australia, making the nation a laboratory for testing how far it can go to steer debate and influence policy inside a democratic trade partner.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/australia/china-taiwan-discrimination.html

SYDNEY, Australia — During her second week waitressing at a barbecue restaurant in Sydney, a customer asked Yating Yang if she was Chinese. “No, I’m Taiwanese,” she said.

Her boss, who was from mainland China, never gave her another shift.

Man-Tzu Tuan said her loyalty test came even sooner: on her first day at a hot pot restaurant in a comfortable Sydney suburb. “Is Taiwan part of China?” her manager asked in Mandarin over a walkie talkie. “No, definitely not,” she said.

A half-hour later, she was fired.

China’s assertiveness has already set off alarms in Australia, with officials warning that Beijing has been meddling in Australian politics more than the public realizes. But the experiences of Ms. Yang and Ms. Tuan — along with many others — reveal how Chinese nationalism is also affecting private enterprise and, in some cases, leading to accusations of discrimination.

Off topic but why is your formatting always so terrible?

What device are you posting from?

Forever~I'm so sorry this even exists. 

It is hard enough being a foreigner in any homogenously ethnic country, where you are an obvious.  To experience what you have...that is awful!  Just because the color of your skin!?  I'm so so sorry, dude!  My black/brown friends here have experienced the worst racism as well being in Korea.  Being a "privileged" "white" is crappy too at times, but as a person of darker color...??  Asians do seem to treat outsiders as "non-humans" in their home countries.  It doesn't matter the color...but it seems the darker you are, the worse you get treated.

I worked at an elementary school and when I was leaving, they were opting for a black person to replace me cause they have had just run through a stereotypical white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and wanted a black person because "they wanted the children to touch their skin and hair" (that was what my co-teacher told me).  They hired someone from S.A. and it turned out that the guy actually had AIDS, when he did his blood test.   A shit show then ensued.

Point: don't hire people to be your pets. 

Off topic but why is your formatting always so terrible?

What device are you posting from?

OP has never figured out how to do this.  It's his jam.

It's good that you're raising awareness, but there has never been a time when China was not INCREDIBLY racist.

The CCP have gotten quite good at using racism, xenophobia and intolerance as a tool to stay in power these past 70yrs.

It's true.
Back in the late 1940's Paul Robeson supported the CCP. This same CCP also supported the ANC
for the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

Off topic but why is your formatting always so terrible?

What device are you posting from?

Are you asking me that question because I am black?

Are you asking me that question because I am black?

Now that is just a weird response.

Forever~I'm so sorry this even exists. 

It is hard enough being a foreigner in any homogenously ethnic country, where you are an obvious.  To experience what you have...that is awful!  Just because the color of your skin!?  I'm so so sorry, dude!  My black/brown friends here have experienced the worst racism as well being in Korea.  Being a "privileged" "white" is crappy too at times, but as a person of darker color...??  Asians do seem to treat outsiders as "non-humans" in their home countries.  It doesn't matter the color...but it seems the darker you are, the worse you get treated.

I worked at an elementary school and when I was leaving, they were opting for a black person to replace me cause they have had just run through a stereotypical white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and wanted a black person because "they wanted the children to touch their skin and hair" (that was what my co-teacher told me).  They hired someone from S.A. and it turned out that the guy actually had AIDS, when he did his blood test.   A shit show then ensued.

Point: don't hire people to be your pets. 

I wouldn't generalize all Asians as people who think outsiders are not human. Filipinos are the least racist people in Asia.
I haven't been to Cambodia or Vietnam yet, but I have been to Thailand multiple times and yes, there are people there who
are also racially gullible about black people, but at the same time I have met people in Thailand who are darker than me. And
these Thais also struggle with self hatred because of their darker skin tone. I have had my moments of uplifting them by saying
"the darker the cherry the sweeter the juice," and using quotations from Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey. I am not saying that all
light skinned Thais are prejudiced because I am friends with one. But most of the dark skin Thai people I met see something more
in common with me.

but I can tell you that if I started my own business as a black man, I would look out for the black community to provide employment and to gain support.

Is Foreverparadise a racist? Let's find out!

but I can tell you that if I started my own business as a white man, I would look out for the white community to provide employment and to gain support.

Yes, Foreverparadise is a racist.

Filipinos are the least racist people in Asia.

Having dated several Filipinas, visited the Philippines, and currently having a guitar player and close friend who is from there.... this is just the most patently ill-informed thing I've seen you post.

Forever~I'm so sorry this even exists. 



I worked at an elementary school and when I was leaving, they were opting for a black person to replace me cause they have had just run through a stereotypical white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and wanted a black person because "they wanted the children to touch their skin and hair" (that was what my co-teacher told me).  They hired someone from S.A. and it turned out that the guy actually had AIDS, when he did his blood test.   A shit show then ensued.

Point: don't hire people to be your pets. 

Isn't this what Western companies and governments have been doing for years? Albeit couched in more politically correct terms.

Are you asking me that question because I am black?

What kind of question is that? Seriously.

I'm asking because almost all of your posts look like they have been formatted by someone half cut. Laptop or mobile, the formatting shouldn't look like a hot mess.


So, why?