Anti-blackness has been endemic in Chinese societies at home and abroad: exploitative and discriminatory labor practices of Chinese firms toward African workers accompany increased Chinese investment in African raw materials and construction markets. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/world/africa/kenya-china-racism.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/1...
Yet punitive policing and surveillance are hardly new realities for communities subjected to scapegoating and uprooting even as they continue to experience disproportionate death and harm in and beyond the current pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/10/4-reasons-coronavirus-is-hitting-black-communities-so-hard/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...
Racism is unconducive and dangerous to the containment of the virus. Against such threats of division, we must redouble our support for mutual aid practices and reject the intolerant logics that alienate vulnerable communities from care and survival. https://twitter.com/aafcollective/status/1242918178323300352">https://twitter.com/aafcollec...
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