The Olympics: Beijing Bar Owners Not Serving to Black People or Mongols
Sunday, July 20th, 2008wtf.
The South China Morning Post says that nightclub owners in the Sanlitun district were told by government officials to not serve people who are black or Mongolian. This area is by the Workers’ Stadium in Beijing… you know, that place for the next Olympic games. Posts have been popping up on the internets based off of that initial article. Beijing Boyce seems to think it’s not valid, but the comments below seem to state otherwise. One commenter states,
Most of the drug pushers in Sanlitun were blacks. Most of the hookers in places like Maggies were Mongolians. Maggies has been closed and the pushers pushed off the street. I am inclined to think that bar owners were told not to allow these workers to migrate their trade into the bars of the area. But how does a simple bar worker know the difference between a Mongolian tourist and a Mongolian hooker, or a Ugandan tourist from a pusher. the answer is, he doesn’t. So, according to my theory, someone in the chain of authority - be it PSB, local police, bar owners or whoever, has decided the safe way is to ban everyone. In true Chinese Whispers form, this gets transmuted into FACT. Methinks there’s a gulf between the original edict and the SCMP story.
How real is this? Beats me. But damn. it’s believable.
original article from South China Morning Post
the shanghaiist
deadspin article… more for folks’ comments.
