One Togolese student in Guangzhou was unable to find a place to stay when he was evicted after his university shut down campus housing. He took to sleeping under a bridge until he was chased away by police. A McDonald’s employee was pictured holding up a sign stating that the restaurant was no longer serving black people. These and many other similar incidents captured on phone cameras traveled online across the world, along with a deluge of comments on Chinese social media justifying such actions and repeating racist stereotypes of Africans as “ungrateful” foreign migrants, carriers of disease, and criminal elements. This was about more than simply pandemic management.
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