Skin Deep

I’ve said before that the Chinese are the most racist people on earth, at least by western standards.  Here you go.

Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and others it considers social undesirables from entering the city’s bars during the Olympic Games, a move that would contradict the official slogan, “One World, One Dream”.

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.

“Uniformed Public Security Bureau officers came into the bar recently and told me not to serve black people or Mongolians,” said the co-owner of a western-style bar, who asked not to be named.

The local authorities have been cracking down on blacks and Mongolians in an attempt to stamp out drug dealing and prostitution ahead of the Games, the proprietors said.

A few months ago, police launched a violent sting on black men drinking in the Sanlitun bar district, and a notorious nightclub largely populated by Mongolian prostitutes was also shut down.

Security officials are targeting Sanlitun, which Olympic organisers expect to be a key destination for foreign tourists looking for a party during the Games.

The pledges that Sanlitun bar owners had been instructed to sign agreed to stop a variety of activities in their establishments, including dancing and serving customers with black skin, they said.

Now, the sad thing is that, with a few notable exceptions, this racial profiling holds largely true.  If you are a young Mongolian female you are probably a hooker.  If you are a young black male, especially an African, you are probably a drug dealer.  If you’re walking down the street and a group of black guys is walking towards you they’ll usually say something like, “How you doing, man.” This isn’t a sign of greeting, it’s them letting you know that they’re selling drugs.  This happened to my friend and I on Saturday night right across the street from Worker’s Stadium, and it happened to me tonight as I was heading down to the Yashow Market to buy some gifts before I go to the US on Wednesday.

“I am appalled,” said a black British national who works in Beijing. “I understand that the government is trying to stop certain illegal activities, but I don’t think blanket discrimination is going about it the right way.

“Chinese people are prejudiced, but I would have hoped that the government would set a better example as it debuts on the world stage.”

This is what happens when you live in a country where about 99% of the population is one ethnicity.  It becomes very easy to racially profile.

The authorities’ attempt to keep unwanted behaviour from damaging the squeaky-clean image of the Games is the latest example of heavy-handedness that critics say is killing the party spirit of the Olympics.

During the Athens Olympics four years ago, bars and nightclubs were allowed to stay open all night. But venues in Beijing that are not being shut down during the Games will have to close at 2am and maintain tight security.

“The officials told me to inform my customers that they must at all times carry their passports or ID cards,” said one bar owner.

“Security is important, but Beijing is becoming a fortress, and that’s not attractive.”

This is absolutely correct.  The nightlife here, while still fun, has become an order of magnitude less so the closer we get to the Olympics.  I just can’t wait for the whole fucking mess to be over with so everything can get back to normal.

Well, at least the girls dressing like clowns will still go on and provide plenty of entertainment…

Lee, lookat it this way more chicks of diffrent nationality’s to gawk at!

So… if you’re a Chinese, white, or whatever-non-black drug dealer, it seems this would be the place to go to make the big bucks during the games.

Btw, what brings you to the states, Lee, if you don’t mind me asking?  Are you gonna be in TX or CA?

“Now, the sad thing is that...this racial profiling holds largely true.  If you are a young Mongolian female you are probably a hooker.  If you are a young black male, especially an African, you are probably a drug dealer.  If you’re walking down the street and a group of black guys is walking towards you they’ll usually say something like, “How you doing, man.””

WOW! Are you serious Lee? Do you really think like this? You MUST do more traveling and see the world man. That’s a pretty prejudiced statement. There are more to black men than the one or two very limited encounters you have had. I hope you are not living in the states. We don’t need any more people like that thinking that way.

WOW! Are you serious Lee? Do you really think like this? You MUST do more traveling and see the world man. That’s a pretty prejudiced statement. There are more to black men than the one or two very limited encounters you have had. I hope you are not living in the states. We don’t need any more people like that thinking that way.

WOW!  Are you a fucking moron or something?  Have you even bothered to actually read anything other than your cherry-picked sentence out of this blog?  I hope you pull your head out of your ass sometime soon.  We don’t need any more people that are stupid like you.

Seriously? You registered today just so you could show everybody how badly you missed the point of this post?

Hm? Oh I saw the POINT of the post....but one can’t ignore the accompanying sentences that support the “point” of this entry. Besides, whether my “cherry-picked sentences” were besides the point, Lee still said something that was pretty prejudiced.

Also, Seattle Outcast...your last sentence would have been more effective had it read, “We don’t need more stupid people like you.” It’s more direct and cuts the reader a little more. See, using the word “any” right before the word “more” gives indication you have a limited education. Oh, but wait, there I go again! That wasn’t the point of your reply, now was it?

WOW! Are you serious Lee? Do you really think like this? You MUST do more traveling and see the world man. That’s a pretty prejudiced statement. There are more to black men than the one or two very limited encounters you have had. I hope you are not living in the states. We don’t need any more people like that thinking that way.

First of all, I had visited more of the word before I was 10 years old than you will ever visit in your entire lifetile.  Your attempt to try to portray me as some kind of racist is laughable, and those who know me and have known me for years will clearly come to my defense on this.

Do you live in Beijing?  I doubt it, since your IP would indicate you’re a Cox Cable subscriber in Atlanta.  So what you’re saying is that you have no experience with what Beijing is actually like, and since reality doesn’t conform to the rigid strictures of your bleeding heart leftist “colorblind society” bullshit that you whipped up with your Marxist professors in college that I must somehow be a racist.

Here’s a few facts, which you may be aware of if you ever left Atlanta.  Unlike you, I learned these facts from actually talking to African drug dealers and Mongolian hookers.

1.  Mongolians are popular with foreigners in Beijing because they have an Asian look to them (they sorta look like Eskimos) but generally have hips and tits like western women.  There are indeed Mongolian women working in Beijing who are not prostitutes. However, this law concerns PEOPLE IN BARS.  And if you are a young, sexy Mongolian girl in a bar in Beijing, there is probably a 75% chance or better that you are a hooker.

Why do they come to Beijing to become hookers?  Because they can make more in one night than their father earns in an entire month toiling in Mongolia.

Come to Beijing sometime.  We’ll go to one of the city;s notorious hooker bars.  You can see for yourself that the vast majority of the women in there are Mongolian. 

2.  Africans come here to sell drugs.  Not all of them.  In fact, there are two instances of which I will make you aware (since your knowledge of the world seems to primarily what you think it should be rather than the way it is).  The first was a very passionate letter written to thebeijinger.com, a popular website/blog/BBS system for Beijing’s foreign expatriate community.  On the forum one day there was a letter posted from an African woman, imploring her fellow Africans to stop coming here to sell drugs.  She said that her life was miserable, not because people were racially profiling her unfairly, but because the profiling was generally accurate.  She wasn’t pissed at the police, she was pissed at the Africans who come there to sell drugs, because they give all the legitimate Africans (diplomats, businessmen, their families, and so on) a bad name. 

The second example is from a drug raid that took place about a year ago.  The police went into a few of the seedier bars in Sanlitun (the bar area) and just arrested every black guy they could find.  One of them turned out to be the son of an African diplomat.  This turned into a major incident for the government.  But the fact is that all the other black guys they arrested were, for the most part, drug dealers.

But you know all this, right? You know, from all that experience you get in Atlanta. 

Let me point out something to you, you ignorant asshole.  This is a country where 99% of the population is ethnic Han Chinese.  They’re not just racist against people from other countries, they’re racist against other flavors of Chinese.  So while in America there is clearly more to black society than just drug dealers, in Beijing it’s an entirely different story.

I was talking to a dealer one night and I asked him why he was in China.  I mean, why come here and take the risks.

“Easy, mon.  Back in Nigeria de prisons are just as bad, you know?  Law just as bad.  In China dey have lots of foreigners, with lots of money to spend.  Lots of clubs, lots of fine-ass bitches.  In Nigeria we got no foreigners, no clubs, and all de bitches got AIDS.  So I come to China, I sell drugs to de foreigners, den I send de money home to Nigeria to feed my mother and sister.  It’s al good, mon.  If I get caught I do maybe three month, six month, a year in prison, den they deport me.  Dis is less dan the punishment would be in Nigeria, so it’s all okay.”

In Atlanta the majority of the population is black.  Here only 1% of the population is something other than Han Chinese.  So I’d imagine the number of black people in a country with almost a billion and a half people in it is roughly 0.00000000001% of the population.  Diplomats or drug dealers or the occasional business man.

It might suck, and it might upset your delicate liberal sensibilities, but this is what those of us outside Atlanta call “the real world.”

Fucking cunt.  Any time you want to compare passports with me you just let me you know.

I’m going to make a prediction.  You’re a college graduate, aren’t you?  You *have* to have a higher education to believe something as monumentally stupid as what you wrote.

Besides, whether my “cherry-picked sentences” were besides the point, Lee still said something that was pretty prejudiced.

What was prejudiced about it?  Be very, very specific in your answer, and provide a logical basis for your claims.

Wow!  Not only is he an idiot, he’s a smug idiot.