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shaka
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tamsier
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 30 Jul 2008 : 13:09:24
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| Well it doesn't look good for China, does it? I would like to know who gave the order and their position in government. This can damage China's image even worst than it is now, and considering China's link with African nations, I dont think it makes good political sense. However, I'm not surprised. |
Tamsier
Serere heritage. Serere religion. Serere to the end.
Roog a fa ha. |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Jul 2008 : 13:20:41
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Some more gabbage and problems for China olympics! This olympics appear not safe and highly charged on politics, discrimination & terror?
The read is horrific and can cause further disruption? Why ain't we learning? Why "Ya baani Adam! (Oh ye children of Adam!") stubborn? Why the "rat race"? 
Apartheid has been coming and going! |
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Momodou
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Posted - 30 Jul 2008 : 13:55:23
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Lets hope that this is a matter of wrong translation as indicated in the comments box of the article.
In 1989, African students led by a Gambian Mr. Alpha Robinson made a demonstration in China against racial discrimination of Africans. Here is an what he wrote on Gambia-L in 1999 about that event:
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By Alpha Robinson
Sitting in my cell with temperatures below zero in a Chinese prison in December 1988 my shivering hands managed to scribble the following:
" Write Alpha write! Write! Write...what do I write? Where do I start from? The best thing would have been to tear my chest apart and pull out that beating organ. It knows it all, it feels it all, it is my witness, my only witness it is. Where is the barrel of the pen? Where are the words? I do remember thinking of Steve Biko, Mandela, Ngugi, Gandhi and all those people who stood resolutely in defence of humanity and justice. I remember thinking and visualising my whole life in a state of half-coma and my hungry brain searching for words and the most basic sense of justice, while that organ kept pounding in my chest, its anger raging and ebbing at intervals, sometimes feeling as if it has missed its normal rhythm. Those were the moments when only your heart wants to accept that your skin is pigmented in that natural way that makes it black, the simple biological phenomenon of which causes the wrongful incrimination of your body and soul....".
The reason why I was sitting in that cell was simple. I was the secretary general of the General Union of African Students (GUASC)-Nanjing branch. GUASC challenged the Chinese authorities to treat Africans as human beings who deserve dignity. The drama which led to my arrest together with five other people involved Africans from more than twenty African countries, speaking more than thirty different African languages. On that unforgettable day of December 25th all African students in the city of Nanjing left their universities to meet at the train station in order to finally leave for Beijing where the African Embassies were located, hoping that once we get there the wrongs done to us will finally be redressed.
The Chinese students of Nanjing university surrounded the foreign students' dormitories throwing whatever they could lay their hands on; stones, bottles, logs of wood, bricks, you name it, shouting: "kill, kill, kill". As every situation creates its leaders, I rose to assume leadership together with other students, at that critical juncture.
Anyone who knows how brutal Chinese authorities can be, especially when their authority is challenged, will not find it difficult to see that this was no dinner party. It was a struggle of life and death.
That all African students in the city of Nanjing were involved bears testimony to the fact that we were not engaged in any adventure or controversial fracas, to borrow from Saul. There were also Europeans,
Americans and Asians who joined us in solidarity to the extent of surrendering their freedom for a while just to support our course.
Honestly speaking, no one knew what was to follow next. We could have been poisoned while in jail, anything could have happened.
What complicated matters was that contrary to what the Chinese authorities wanted the world to believe; that the problem was caused by Africans seducing Chinese women, we knew that what was happening to us was an extension of what was happening in Chinese society at large. The Chinese people, especially the young ones, were yearning for freedom in a new China which was beginning to discard all security hitherto enjoyed
by them, leaving them with an uncertain future while the few, whose parents were established Party functionaries, were riding high in luxury.
We were the scapegoats. We were in their eyes the darlings of the authorities and they knew that since they could not hit those who wield power directly, hitting us would have nonetheless make them feel the pinch. Having felt the heat of the Chinese side the authorities had to look for someone to blame in order to keep the Chinese out of the streets and who were better scapegoats than those who spoke truth into their faces; those who according to them were the agitators? So it was that the Nanjing six were victimised. The events at Tiannamen the following year bore testimony to this theory. This is not the place to elaborate on details, I only wanted to shed a bit of light on this since Saul mentioned it in a manner which could be easily misunderstood. I was not acting to be a progressive, a hero or a martyr! I was simply acting according to the demands of the situation, ready to face whatever it would take to stand dignified. Looking back, I am proud to have stood up against repression on behalf of all Africans.
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mansasulu
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Posted - 30 Jul 2008 : 15:09:05
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"...Verily, in the remembrance of Allâh do hearts find rest..." Sura Al-Rad (Chapter 13, Verse 28)
...Gambian by birth, Muslim by the grace of Allah... |
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shaka
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Posted - 30 Jul 2008 : 20:22:31
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That is the million dollar question.quote:
Originally posted by mansasulu
How did the outside media miss this "story"?
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tamsier
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Jul 2008 : 11:46:50
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| Racial discriminations against black people is a tabo subject to report. If you write about it you will need to justify how the Afro caribbean and African Americans are treated within that nation etc. It opens up a whole kind of worms,. Therefore, it is better to keep quite, instead focus on what is happening to China's human right abuses [as a blacket], or what's happening in Iraq, Afghanistan [and the middle east in general], or people starving in the African continent. If you expect the big western media to report it you would be mistaken. I like to listen to the news [radio and tv] and I saw no report on this. |
Tamsier
Serere heritage. Serere religion. Serere to the end.
Roog a fa ha. |
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jambo
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Posted - 31 Jul 2008 : 14:25:54
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| can this be forwarded to reuters, bbc cnn or any news agencies |
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mansasulu
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Posted - 31 Jul 2008 : 14:46:39
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| I belive we do have media in Africa as well. Since this story "purportedly" refers to black people why wont the african media report it. How did they sleep at the switch. There are serious doubts about the authenticity of this story. I am gonna need independent confirmation of this story in order to belief it. |
"...Verily, in the remembrance of Allâh do hearts find rest..." Sura Al-Rad (Chapter 13, Verse 28)
...Gambian by birth, Muslim by the grace of Allah... |
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tamsier
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Jul 2008 : 15:06:58
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| True, Africa also has a media but the western [were I live at the moment] media has been bombading us with the Olympics for the past couple of months - it is a bid worrying that they did not report this if it is true. As I said, I would like to know who gave the orders and their position in government. However, I'm not surprised. |
Tamsier
Serere heritage. Serere religion. Serere to the end.
Roog a fa ha. |
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shaka
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serenata
Germany
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Posted - 31 Jul 2008 : 18:06:52
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I think it is a matter of wrong translation. China has enough problems to justify its human rights politics; I don't think they are keen on more trouble. These people are not crazy. A high percentage of the world's top athletes are Blacks - imagine the scandal if they are refused entry to bars and restaurants!
One should be careful: You find a lot of propaganda rubbish against China in the Western media at the moment.
But Alpha Robinson's report from the Chinese prison is moving. So, if this article should help to shed light on racism in China, it is ok. |
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shaka
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serenata
Germany
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Posted - 31 Jul 2008 : 18:31:49
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| OK. Then the Chinese are much more stupid than I imagined; let's wait for the big bang. Black athletes can refuse to take part in the Olympic games when they are treated like that. |
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shaka
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turk
USA
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Posted - 31 Jul 2008 : 19:20:33
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OK. Then the Chinese are much more stupid than I imagined; let's wait for the big bang. Black athletes can refuse to take part in the Olympic games when they are treated like that.
sere
This is more than black issue, this is human race issue. I think any athletes should refuse to take part inf the olympic games. |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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