Doug COLLINS this straight « HERE’S AN interesting litile scenario for you: there are, let us suppose, about 1,000 black students from Africa at the University of British Columbia. They are there, let us sup- pose further, on grants from the federal government, which is anxious for good relations with African countries. Pretty soon though, there is unrest. The white students and their rotten families are upset that the blacks are going out with white girls. They are also upset that the blacks are there at all, because the more amenities the blacks have, the fewer there are for the whites. Violence breaks out. Large white mobs march on campus and in downtown Vancouver shouting “Blacks out.”’ Trouble also breaks out in three other Canadian cities that are unwilling hosts to Africans. Black Heads are broken. What do you think the reaction would be to such events? Without doubt, there would be editorials in the press denouncing white hooliganism (no matter who started the fighting), just as whites are being blamed for the scrapping in that school in Nova Scotia. The churches would deplore. Ottawa would deplore. The United Nations would deplore. Our name would be mud. Headlines would read: ‘*Cancda a second South Africa?’ ‘‘Blacks not wanted.’’ “Racism rampant on Canada’s West Coast."” Riotous events exactly similar to that scenario have taken place in China — in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Beijing. But 1 have seen no condemnation of any sort. Nor did I expect any, things being what they are. There have been some reports on what happened, but you have to get the Chinese and Hong Kong press to savor the full story. And some of the stuff is hilarious. (To me, that is, what with my warped sense of humor and everything.) At Hehai University in Nanjing president Li-ang Ruiji ‘‘urged the (African) students to return to classes but told them they would now be allowed only one Chinese girlfriend, and she must be in- troduced to officials for ap- proval.”’ Mr. Zhang Jiangmin, secretary to the university president, was reported as saying: ‘‘Every student who comes to China should respect our customs and morals. It is not good to make friends in a reckless way."’ Beautiful! Not good to make friends in a reckless way. In other words, ‘*Keep to yourselves, you bastards, and leave our women alone.”’ It gets better. ‘*In the past, Mr. Zhang said, some African students in Hehai were constantly changing girlfriends, which he said affected their studies and made a bad im- pression on others at the universi- ty.”” (Sorry about this, but as I write this I am also splitting my sides, Ask Grey Eyes.) An official newspaper in Hangzhou (all newspapers are of- ficial in China, but that was how it was described) stated that most Africans carried AIDS, Can you imagine any of our papers saying such a thing, even if it were true? Racism is, of course, rampant in China. For millennia, they have regarded themselves as the only true civilization. Other races were and no doubt stiil are seen as bar- barians, although if there are to be any foreigners around at ail, the Chinese prefer whites to blacks and browns. A black diplomat in Peking, one Amah Gobo Dio, stated: ‘‘You can find racism in every country but usually it is tempered by at least some common courtesy. That does not seem to be the case here.”’ Well, nobody's perfect. That’s what I always say. Another laugh in all this is that in the hope of making political capital, the Chinese government has made a big effort to be nice to African countries. What it didn’t count on, however, was the human condition. 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