in the television spectacular celebrating the new year last night, actors were reportedly wearing blackfacecan see it in this paper from hong kong. you see the photo behind me. we see a black performer dressed as a monkey. they are performing in a skit about chinese-african relations. the performance sparked anger on social media. this twitter user took a screenshot of their television as they were watching last night and wrote that they were waiting for china to get backlash from using blackface. of the pali, the year dog could be a bad one for the american president. >> that is because donald trump was born in the year of the dog in 1946. according to popular chinese believe, people are often less lucky when they are in the same zodiac year is the year they were born. there is a way to combat that, by wearing red which represents good luck. it is a good day to wear red. i think we will have to change. anchor: thank you for that. for more, you can always head to our website. we are going to take a quick break. stay with us. you are watching "france 24." ♪ >> "france in focus." >> every yea

all the teachers and administrators were in blackface.hat was in 1953. >> reporter: now they were a family of four. >> reporter: miss betty says her marriage was suffering. her husband had a gambling problem. his football career took a toll on him. it was brain damage that he accumulated. it caused him to melt down. we lost everything. everything but the record shop. >> ms. betty took over the store after they split. it was not easy. the neighborhood had gone through tough times. drugs took over the community. this betty was not leaving. her nemesis became her guardian's. >> at 8 pm we would turn off the lights and turn the lock and they would usher me to my car. >> reporter: she later married for a second time. as life moved on she had another major setback in the 1980s. >> all the men in my life died in the same year, my father, my husband and my second husband.>> Ã >> reporter: miss betty found herself. in 2007, at the age of 85, she became the oldest person working for national park service. she had her highest honor meeting the first

national television well this user also found it racist especially because there was a chinese woman in blackface with a fake backside. well. now she's a well known actress loon i mean playing the character who says she can't possibly be upset because she loves chinese people and she loves china now there's been a big backlash one way below the dominant chinese social media platform with many commentators calling it things like awkward embarrassing disgusting and terrible to watch while many people on twitter and reddit are using a different word racism to discuss the skit now chinese censors appear to be deleting comments on wave which characterize it as racist so many people now are wondering how such a skit could have been approved by censors in the first place and why discussing it is being inhibited so let us know what you think you can tweet us your views using the hash tag newsgroup or message me directly i'm at and or chapell. thank you well joe will join us in a moment it's what people are talking about at the winter olympics including wife winnie the pooh has become the symbol of a japa