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chibimermaid

WTF China: Beijing Bans Black from Bars

Aug 20, 2008 16:31

My dad sent this to me:

Blacks banned from bars during the Olympics? BY NSENGA BURTON ( Read more... )

china, racism, wtf, olympics

Comments 6

nickel1none August 21 2008, 01:12:28 UTC

I don't let whites into my place.

Cracker ass cracker.

the_pangolin August 21 2008, 14:50:11 UTC

There're way too many honkeys up here in Harlem these days.

nickel1none August 22 2008, 04:00:03 UTC

Don't know how to take they shoes off & be walk'n all off the plastic.

sameasiteverwas August 21 2008, 04:18:24 UTC

that story has got to be bogus, or it would be all over the world by now, and all anyone was talking about. They've already taken every opportunity they can to bash China, if this were true they wouldn't hesitate for a second to make it the biggest issue imaginable.

headhouse August 21 2008, 05:21:02 UTC

Wow. That can't be right. I'm gonna go do some research...

(Actually, this world's screwed up enough that this could turn out to be true.)

headhouse August 21 2008, 06:01:09 UTC

Hm. All the google links to the South China Morning Post's stories are 404, and search of the website for Tom Miller's articles doesn't include anything like the one that's being cited, nor does a search for any of the keywords ("ban" "blacks" "beijing" "bars"). So either they're trying to minimize the bad publicity for China, or they're trying to minimize the fact that they screwed up.

I'm seeing lots of posts that cast doubt on the original story, suggesting that it was either bad reporting or a bad translation (the characters for "gangster" being literally translated as "black association," for instance) or a combination of both.

Time Blog linkA few eyewitness reporting links from a blogger on the ground in Beijing ( ... )