The Three Times An Anti-Chinese Riot Took Place In Jamaica

Lest We Forget

In 1918, the first of 3 Anti-Chinese riots took place in Jamaica. It began in Ewarton, St. Catherine between a Chinese grocer who found his black employee in bed with a police officer. The Chinese grocer brutally beat the black man but a rumour spread that the Chinese and his friends had killed the black man and pickled his corpse which then instigated the riots. 20 years later, in 1938, the Labour Riots gave birth to the uprising of looting and arson attacks on the Chinese grocery establishment. Then the trifecta occurred in 1965 when three Chinese brothers brutally attacked their black Joyce Copeland over the purchasing of a radio. There is also another version of the latter event where it is rumoured that the Chinese man was having an affair with said black employee. Still, a riot broke out.

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