The MDC Youth Assembly condemns in strongest terms selective treatment and racial abuse of blacks in China in face of Covid-19 pandemic.

Stinking information and videos flooding global news sites points to a retrogressive approach by some Chinese nationals who mistreat blacks as carriers of Corona virus.

As young social democrats who believe in principles of equality and justice, we strongly detest such retrogressive stigma especially from a country whose nationals are littered everywhere in the African continent.

In this day and age where nations have globalized, it is very shameful for a country rated second in this 4th Industrial Revolution age to be somewhat found stigmatizing the black race as couriers of a virus that originated in their mother country.

We all know that Wuhan is not Addis Ababa, Harare, Bujumbura or some African city but a Chinese city where the Corona virus originated from.

So for Chinese nationals to pull a racial card in face of Covid-19 is not only disgraceful and retrogressive but Afrophobic!

As an Assembly we believe we are past that dark age whereby light skinned people treat people of color as second class citizens of the earth.

It is just totally unacceptable for a country that has gone through a painful past like China to play racial card on Africans in face of a pandemic that ironically has its roots in the very same country.

Now that China is part of today’s family of nations, we expect her to abide by the dictates of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

We urge the Chinese government to put a full stop on this racial nonsense that is currently unfolding in China.

If anything, the world demand an apology from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

That China prefix herself as People’s Republic, it therefore defies logic when people of another race appear not to be welcome in her community.

Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Youth Assembly National Spokesperson