My news consumption has gotten pretty geopolitical throughout the year and uhh. Chinese ppl been acting out fr here lately…..
Just unfortunately came across some social media coverage of a recent instance where a Black girl was literally approached out of nowhere in Mainland China by a man who, totally and completely unprovoked, confronted her to insult and humble her about her complexion 😅
Dunno if she was a polyglot or just a traveler, but she did clap back with eloquent, articulate Mandarin to check him (which I can only assume shook his racist ass in the midst), and I’m really proud of her for it, but. Ion know man, non black human beings at large definitely seem to have an open preference for mistreating Black People in general — although Black Women with far more particular bias; esp when it comes to dark skinned Black Women.
I cannot for the life of me understand how this is “rationalised” or collective enough in its global perpetuation to be normal — and it really reeeeeally gets under my skin when people will justify this when it comes from members of homogenous societies as if that nullifies racist behavior towards us. Like to go out of your way to confront a perfect stranger like this is absolutely insane to me. It’s even worse when you consider how this kind of thing does not happen in any real prevalence to non black women who travel to African or Caribbean territories. It’s not even worth pouring over statistically; it just doesn’t happen in any comparison in a world sustained on sheer disregard and disrespect for Black people. Even on the basis of colorism in Asia as it applies to women ostracized for not being fair skinned, it still does not compare to stuff like this.
Like I seriously doubt this would have happened to an Asian woman of any cultural calibre travelling as a foreigner in Africa, or Jamaica, or Haiti. Yet it is a testament to how righteous or excusable non black people feel it is to subject Black Women to this exact kind of harassment, that someone could be so beside themselves to do it to one of us in China on sight. Mainland China, where the population of Black Women there for any reason at any given time is at best decimal. Just think about that.
This made me ill. Black travelers pls be safe, esp if you’re a Black Woman. People of all kinds make the world so fucking trash for us to exist in. 😂