afro-perspectives: April 2020

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

🇯🇲 BOB MARLEY and the WAILERS • The Heathen • LIVE • 1979 🇯🇲

Yeah... just really seemed appropriate today...

Chinese firm now has full control of Kingston Freeport management company

By ohtadmin | NY CARIB NEWS

China Merchants Port Holdings which managed Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL), under a 30-year concession agreement with the Government of Jamaica now has full control.

📺Watch: If THAT'S where it originally came from, is it really "RACIST" to call it the "WUHAN VIRUS"?

(Once again) Africans... "COVID-19"... and China's Double Standards on Racism...

MYRNA SUMMERS and the Combined Choirs of the REFRESHING SPRINGS C.O.G.I.C. • I'll Keep Holding On • 1978

One of the hardest things to do sometimes...

TRAMAINE HAWKINS • Holy One • 1982

📺WATCH: A DEEPER LOOK AT Africans in China denied service at McDonalds, subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass testing; U.S. Consulate warns African Americans

Africans Say Pandemic Has Caused Widespread Anti-Black Racism in China: Report

Zack Linly | THE ROOT

As reports fill our newsfeeds about the bigotry and discrimination Asian people are facing amid the coronavirus outbreak, in China, African residents are alleging anti-black racism resulting from the pandemic.

The Washington Post reports that Africans living in the Chinese city of Guangzhou—home to the largest African diaspora population in Asia—say they have been experiencing myriad instances of racism and xenophobia, including evictions from their apartments, refusals of entry into restaurants, and forced quarantine regardless of whether or not they have tested positive for the virus or traveled to China from other countries.

After hearing European doctors recently suggest experimental vaccines should be tested on Africans, local protesters destroy new Ivory Coast coronavirus testing centre

Coronavirus: Ivory Coast protesters target testing centre

BBC NEWS

Protesters in Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan, have destroyed a coronavirus centre that was being built in the district of Yopougon.

Residents said it was being built in a crowded residential area, too close to their homes.

Videos on social media show people tearing apart the centre with their bare hands, smashing construction materials on the ground.

MAX ROACH and the J.C. WHITE SINGERS • Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? • 1971 •

Were you there? Are you here? Is the resurrection near?

Coronavirus outbreak triggers brazen discrimination and racist attacks against Black people in China

Africans in Guangzhou are on edge, after many are left homeless amid rising xenophobia as China fights a second wave of coronavirus

Jenni Marsh, Shawn Deng and Nectar Gan | CNN

Hong Kong (CNN) The African community in Guangzhou is on edge after widespread accounts were shared on social media of people being left homeless this week, as China's warnings against imported coronavirus cases stoke anti-foreigner sentiment.

In the southern Chinese city, Africans have been evicted from their homes by landlords and turned away from hotels, despite many claiming to have no recent travel history or known contact with Covid-19 patients.