You’d think that will all of the backlash that racists get online, people would start being a little more cautious when spouting their bigotry.

Take the K-word racist, Adam Catzavelos, for example. That dude has basically been exiled from South Africa for being a giant douche, and lest we forget Penny Sparrow.

Continuing in the Sparrow tradition, a Chinese businessman has been arrested in Kenya after a video was released of him calling the Kenyan president, and indeed all Kenyans, monkeys.

Here he is in all his racist glory:

Daily Nation reports that “the Chinese national, identified as Liu Jiaqi, has been arrested and is being processed for deportation”.

“His work permit has been cancelled and (he) will be deported on racism grounds,” the immigration service said on its Twitter feed.

In the two and a half minute video shared on Twitter and elsewhere, Liu, who appears to be in the midst of a dispute with one of his employees, is recorded issuing a litany of racist slurs.

“Every one, every Kenyan… like a monkey, even Uhuru Kenyatta. All of them,” he said.

After the employee suggests, rather politely all things considered, that Lui goes back to China if he doesn’t like Kenya, Lui responds with further abuse:

“I don’t belong to here. I don’t like here, like monkey people, I don’t like talk with them, it smells bad, and poor, and foolish, and black. I don’t like them. Why not [like] the white people, like the American?”

 

On Thursday afternoon The Chinese Embassy issued a statement condemning Lui’s racist slurs.

The consulate said the view were personal and not do not represent the views of the of the vast majority of Chinese people.

“The Chinese Embassy always requires the Chinese companies and individuals to abide by the local law, stay and work legally in Kenya, making positive contribution to the friendship and cooperation between China and Kenya,” the consulate said in a statement.

This is unfortunately not the first time that Chinese workers have been accused of racism in Kenya.

Three years ago a small Chinese restaurant in the capital Nairobi was shut down by authorities and the owner charged for operating a “no blacks” policy after 5pm.

Earlier this year Kenyan workers on a new Chinese-built railway alleged racism and discrimination by Chinese staff and managers.

However, the government dismissed allegations of racism on the $3.2 billion (2.8 billion euro) signature infrastructure project.

Lui’s arrest comes just a day after Kenyan police raided the African HQ of the China Global Television Network in Nairobi.

Several journalists were briefly detained as part of an ongoing crackdown on illegal immigrants.

[source:dailynation]