Blog Post on Displacement

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

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/china/africans-guangzhou-china-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html

This article talks about how Africans living in China are being evicted in different parts of the country due to Coronavirus fears. The city of Guangzhou has the largest African population in China and convinced that Black people are responsible for the spread and should be to blame. Many Africans were evicted left homeless and sleeping in the streets because hotels refused to service them. Also, being tested for COVID19, forcibly quarantined at their homes, banned from entering businesses, harassed by law enforcement, and without a home amid the pandemic.  As known, the coronavirus was originated in Chinese origins. African officials confronted the Chinese government for this mistreatment that Blacks are receiving. Many try to justify their actions are prevention from a second wave of the virus, while others demand that this is discrimination and cruel.  I chose this article because people are being displaced from what they called home amid the pandemic, which I found to be just evil. There are many things wrong with this especially the discrimination against Africans because they are being portrayed as a cause of the pandemic. This is creating displacement for them as they are becoming homeless as well as seen differently in a community that they have been living for a while. One of the rules to prevent and be safe during this time is by staying home, but Africans are being kicked out of their homes and forced to live on the streets. These precautions are leaving people without proper living conditions and not other shelter options. In addition, we have seen Asians experience discrimination and displacement in the U.S. but it is not being portrayed so far as what Blacks are experiencing in China.