This is true. But IMO, there's a difference between the idea of "equality" in the Chairman's speech in People's Congress and black people's treatment in the ope

This is true. But IMO, there's a difference between the idea of "equality" in the Chairman's speech in People's Congress and black people's treatment in the open air market in Nanjing. As usual, "equality" is not altruistic. Mao during the 1970's Sino-Soviet split wanted to create his own ideological alternative as a third way to the American capitalist decadence and the Soviet revisionist. So he struck a lot of deals with African go'vt back then to give their students education grants to Chinese universities. I honestly don't think Mao had an understanding of the African American experience in the sense of "Invisible Man," "Their Eyes Were Watching God" etc. but simply had an abstract understanding of "third-world solidarity". Nowadays, the Chinese leadership is helping Africa in the name of the third-way of "peaceful rise" and "political non-interference to internal affairs" as the alternative to "America, the World Police" of UN/IMF/World Bank. Again I don't think Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping really relate to the health, socio-economic concerns of African people but simply wants access to the oil of Sudan and the soft power in the international stage. All of this international diplomacy and economic deals does very little to affect the average Chinese person's attitude towards African's which is very racist. But I'd add that in my experience, racism is China is no worse than racism in America except the difference is that the average majority-member in the States is well-versed in political correctness or guilt that they know not to offend people in public and in private. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_anti-African_protests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_anti-African_protests