Beijing 2008: No Blacks Allowed or Western Writers and Their Jaundiced Eyes?

This story is highly, highly doubtful. Shame on the writer who’s trying to stir up controversy. Those Western writers just won’t give China a break and we can expect them to keep churning out crap like this:

Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and others it considers social undesirables from entering the city’s bars during the Olympic Games, a move that would contradict the official slogan, “One World, One Dream”.

Bar owners near the Workers’ Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises.

“Uniformed 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.

The local authorities have been cracking down on blacks and Mongolians in an attempt to stamp out drug dealing and prostitution ahead of the Games, the proprietors said.

What is most likely happening is that authorities are cracking down on drug dealing and prostitution. Because there is nothing wrong with that, Tom Miller decides to make it a race issue. Tommy boy must be chuckling somewhere very pleased with himself.

Read Beijing Boyce’s take on the matter.