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The Sporting Blog: Chinese Multiculturalism = Epic Fail
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop: CHINA SET TO HOST 1936 OLYMPIC GAMES
Deadspin: Chinese Bar Owners Sign Pledge Not to Serve Blacks, Mongolians? [2008 Olympics]
Sportaphile: China Doesn’t Care About Black People [Olympic Racism]
SPORTSbyBROOKS: Blacks Banned From Beijing Bars During Games?
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The Zoner when you consider the deadly pollution, tibetan oppression and now add in this--they got the olympics how?
Chinese Multiculturalism = Epic Fail
The Sporting Blog —
We have further evidence that when thinking of China, one should imagine it as an alien world totally unready to deal with anyone who doesn't happen to be Han Chinese. According to the South China Morning Post, the authorities in Beijing asked nightclub owners in the Sanlitun night club district of Beijing to be somewhat selective in who they admit into bars and clubs during the Games. ...
CHINA SET TO HOST 1936 OLYMPIC GAMES
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop —
... Everybody already knows the Beijing Olympics are fated to descend into an ungodly amalgam of mass killings, police brutality and gymnastics, but the country is getting a quick start on the international ill-will as many bar owners in one of the city's main nightlife areas are banning blacks and Mongolians. ...
Chinese Bar Owners Sign Pledge Not to Serve Blacks, Mongolians? [2008 Olympics]
Deadspin —
... The report originated in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post and is, evidently, not a joke. I'm not an expert on the SCMP but it's evidently a reputable newspaper in Hong Kong. We've linked to the blog post discussing Miller's article because you have to subscribe to the newspaper to read some of their online articles. Including this one. Perhaps some of our overseas commenters can provide more information on the newspaper. Per Tom Miller of the SCMP: ...
China Doesn’t Care About Black People [Olympic Racism]
Sportaphile —
... Bar owners in the epicenter of the Olympic nightlife have been asked to sign pledges vowing not to serve Black or Mongolian patrons, by uniformed police. ...
Blacks Banned From Beijing Bars During Games?
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
As if there weren’t enough wonderful reasons for Beijing to host this year’s Summer Olympics - like pollution , food scares , human rights abuses - SHANGHAIST adds another great item to the list: racist bar policies . Tsingtao Chinese beer Colored waiting room sign The SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST reports that some Beijing drinking establishments near the Olympic venues said that they were told by government officials not to serve any black customers - or Mongolians, for that matter: Bar owners near the Workers’ Stadium in central Beijing ...
Ahh Good Ol' China BringingRacism To The Olympics
Bronx Liaison —
... Apparently bars with an international clientele in the party town of Sanlitun - not far from Beijing - were told not to serve black patrons before or during the Olympic games. How does a country who lets atrocities go unchecked ...
Beijing Bars Ordered to Ban Black People During Olympics
The Big Lead —
... Public Security Bureau officers came into the bar recently and told me not to serve black people or Mongolians,” said the co-owner of a western-style bar, who asked not to be named.
So much for that “One World, One Dream” Olympics. The story also notes that bartenders have been ordered to refuse service to Mongolians. Beijing officials (whoever that might actually be) have yet to comment on the story.
[Shanghaiist]
OT: Chinese Bars Told Not To Serve Blacks, Mongolians
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog —
Chinese bars in the central area of Beijing are told not to serve blacks or Mongolians. As the Shanghaiist piece quoting a South China Daily News article says, "it sounds like, perhaps, some racist in the Beijing government went out on his own on this one."
Beijing 2008: Racism, Content Blocking, and More!
Boiled Sports —
... to breathe, censorship that includes this here site and -- oh yeah -- communism. This morning, I heard one more disgusting factoid that I hadn't heard until now, mainly because I've been ignoring anything Olympic-related. A co-worker of mine has an in-law who is in China working and he reported back that, even though not a lot is being made in the media, the bars around Beijing have been instructed not to allow blacks or Mongolians in. Um, wait, what? Shanghaist had this story a couple of weeks ago and they got it from the South China Morning ...
