Posted on 12/30/2020 5:38:15 AM PST by RoosterRedux
China’s support for the Black Lives Matter movement seems opportunistic, given its own poor record on human rights. But throughout the early to mid-20th century, China’s leaders and Black activists did find common cause on the issue of racism. They collaborated to challenge global racism, drawing on their shared experiences and histories. Their solidarity represented one thread in a global tapestry of anti-racist activism...
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That history of Black internationalism, and its arrival in China, is what Communist leaders seek to exploit today.
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Black internationalist affinities with China began during the age of empire. In 1911, when the Qing dynasty collapsed under repeated foreign incursions, Black activists saw commonalities in the experiences of Chinese people, who had also endured racial subjugation under Western imperialism. Like White anxieties about Black emancipation during Reconstruction, China’s resistance to colonial rule triggered a fear of a “yellow peril” to White Christendom. Edward Cooper, a prominent Black journalist at the time, wrote that he “did not blame the Chinese for resenting the interference of foreigners.” According to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, a prominent Black newspaper, China’s subsequent transformation into a Western-style republic was the embodiment of a quest for racial parity from an “Oriental’s — and aye, a colored man’s — point of view.”
During the early twentieth century, an uprising against European and U.S. missionaries called the Boxer Rebellion pit U.S. soldiers, some of them Black, against Chinese nationalists. Noting the conflict of interest, Bishop Henry Turner declared in the New York Age, another influential Black publication, that the skirmish against China was “not our war.” “The Black man who puts a gun upon his shoulder to go and fight China,” he wrote, “should find the bottom of the ocean before he gets there.”
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This article isn’t new (Sept 2020), but it certain pertains to today’s news re: BLM, Marxists/Maoists, and the Democrats.
China is quite racist toward black people, I have read.
China sees all non-Chinese as barbarians. Has always felt this way (well, at least for the last 2,000 years).
But the CCP is smart as hell at dividing America into a snarl of internal politics. As good ole Sun Tzu said (I paraphrase), better to achieve victory without bloodshed when possible. That's what they will have accomplished if Slo Joe and Heels-Up take the WH.
Boom, Kraken, Bombshell!!!
Most Chinese believe they are not fond of anyone not Chinese, yet like any modern affluent society, take the best cultural things and enjoy them. They would never have a black person in their home but love watching the NBA. Of course the NBA looks right past all the human rights violations at the money they make today........and in the future.
Also non Chinese in general, look what they are doing to their Muslim minority in the west, China cares for the Han Chinese, not anyone else.
Frustrating.
Yeah, my brother deals professionally with Africa and Chinese activities in Africa. He has seen some Chinese commentary on local Africans and describes it as “so racist it would make even a Klansman blush...”
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