“I support them, as long as they are not violent,” he said. This week, he’s on fire over Beijing's announcement that it will continue to corral the democratic process in Hong Kong (by commandeering elections in 2017), and the vigorous protests that have resulted.Ĭloser to home, the Ferguson protesters have his sympathies. (China is “a Mafia of corruption, except that’s an insult to this level of corruption,” he said.) Now, when he’s not frying eggrolls, he posts screeds on social media about the depredations of the Chinese government.
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He emigrated and worked in a series of Chinese restaurants in the Midwest. The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 made up his mind, he said: he could no longer stay in China and abet its repressive policies. Ning prefers to go by the name “Roy Freeman.” It’s his way of saluting the U.S. Will meaningful change come to an area that has come to symbolize racially tainted policing?Īt Ferguson Chop Suey, located less than a mile north of the Ferguson Police HQ, proprietor Roy Ning has both an international and a personal take on related issues.
Run by first and second-generation immigrants, they are often neighborhood anchors that have seen fads come and go, while crab rangoon endures.īut change is the order of business in Ferguson, where the unrest has galvanized protesters and pundits alike around the globe. The chop suey joints – stripped-down Chinese restaurants – have become survivor stories. The customers know what to expect at these humble eateries, which would seem to be recession-proof. They don’t seem to need the extra publicity, either. They are, as we say, keeping it old-school. Most of the chop suey joints on the North Side do not have Facebook pages.
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