Rich Hong Kong Tycoon Compares Protesters To Slaves In America

One can disagree with your political opponents  ideology without insulting not only those you oppose but a group of people whose history is fraught legal discrimination, voter suppression,  Jim Crow, Sundown Towns and legalized physical abuse and death.  

A leading Hong Kong businesswoman and member of the city's Executive Council, which deliberates policy, compared the struggle of pro-democracy protesters to that of slaves in the American South in the 19th century. The remarks, which ran in a local English-language daily, have triggered an angry response from many in the Chinese territory.Laura Cha, who is also a board member at the prominent bank HSBC, urged that protesters seeking further democratic reforms be more patient. "American slaves were liberated in 1861 but did not get voting rights until 107 years later," she was quoted as saying by the Standardnewspaper. "So why can't Hong Kong wait for a while?"

She was speaking at a Hong Kong trade roadshow in Paris.
Aside from the historical inaccuracies, it is considered by many bizarre and inflammatory to link the former British colony's population to the brutal historical experience of slavery in America and the miseries that followed for the country's repressed and marginalised black communities. Those Many Hong Kongers who have taken to the streets fear that China is trying to rein back the city's unique freedoms and that Beijing's future policies may amount to a kind of voter suppression.

Laura Cha has little clue to the awful history of African Americans beginning with slavery which last for more than 150 years.  That was followed by Jim Crow Laws which legalized discrimination against these same people by disallowing them to eat at lunch counters,  separate entrances for private businesses such as movie theaters and department stores and schools which were so underfunded and forced to be separate all came to a head in Brown v.  Board of Education Topeka Kansas