A damn nightmare

[brassmonkey]

half black and chinese in china damn

A bubbly 20-year-old woman who has become the most famous television talent show contestant in China is at the centre of a national race row.

Lou Jing, the daughter of a Chinese mother and an African American father who left China before she was born, is one of five finalists on Dragon TV's Go Oriental Angel.

But her selection to represent Shanghai in the series has unleashed a torrent of outrage and abuse in posts on chat rooms across the country.

"Ugh. Yellow people and black people mixed together is very gross," was one post.
Another blogger wrote: "Numb! This b**** still has the audacity to appear on television! I don't know what to say! One cannot be shameless to this kind of level!"

Lou told Neteast News that the adverse public reaction had come as a surprise.

"The whole thing was a big bomb to my family and me and it caused great harm," she said.

"I wish netizens (internet users) could tolerate my particular parentage and let it go as soon as possible."

But in the mainstream media, Lou was not short of supporters.
Media commentator Hung Huang wrote in her blog: "In the same year that Americans welcome Obama to the White House, we can't even accept this girl with a different skin colour."

The China Daily, the English broadsheet that reflects government policy and thinking, also sprang to the young theatre student's defence.

Top columnist Raymond Zhou wrote: "There are two factors at work here: Lou Jing is not a pure-blood Chinese; and anyone who marries a foreigner is deemed a 'traitor' to his or her race. More relevant, Lou's father is black."

He added: "It is high time we introduced some sensitivity training on races and ethnicities, if we are going to latch on to the orbit of globalisation.

"People should realise that, if you have a right to discriminate against another race, you have automatically given others the right to discriminate against you."

With the first African American US President, Barack Obama, due in Beijing later this month, the racist debate comes at an awkward time for China.

looks like karma hit them in the end racist fuckers