In a short video, a group of African children in red shirts and shorts happily looked at the camera, chanting in Chinese: “I am a black monster and my IQ is low. Yeah!” They repeated these words with joy and enthusiasm, apparently not knowing what they were saying. The video was uploaded to Douyin, a Chinese video platform, in February 2020.
After more than a year of investigation, BBC reporters allege that a Chinese man named Lu Ke paid a nominal “salary” to these African children to make short videos mocking Africans, and then he sold the videos on Chinese online platforms.
