is germany a racist country?

[blugiant]

wat a ting. germany a blacklist recards made bye blakk dancehall artists. yet wii ave a latt aff blakk peeps wey luv fii gawn like blakk peeps a dii prablem natt racist oyinbo. soo itt thyme fii tunn da issue arund ann ask iff germany iss a racist country ann iss dat y oyinbo homosexual feel soo empower fii sterotype blakk peeps music as promotinn violence.




iss germany a racist country toward blakks?

[blugiant]

Re: is gemany a racist country?

New film uncovers racism in Germany




Is Germany a racist country? That is what a new documentary, Black on White, is trying to find out. Its findings are shocking. But, as Damien McGuinness reports, the filmmaker himself has been criticized by black Germans for his methods.

For more than a year, journalist Gunter Wallraff travelled across Germany wearing a dark-haired curly wig and with his white skin painted black.

Equipped with a secret camera, and calling himself Kwami Ogonno, he went to predominantly white areas to see how a black man with a foreign accent is treated.

The experience, he said, was even more depressing that he had expected.

"I hadn't known what we would discover, and had thought maybe the story will be, what a tolerant and accepting country we have become," said Mr Wallraff after a screening of the film Black on White in Berlin. "Unfortunately I was wrong."

He was almost beaten up by neo-Nazis after a football match in eastern Germany. And outside a small-town nightclub was told by a skinhead: "Europe for whites, Africa for apes."

But the film's most disturbing aspect is not the well-known racism of right-wing extremists, but rather the secretly-filmed reactions of everyday people - the landlady who says she could not possibly rent out a flat to a black person, or the shop owner who will not let "Kwami" try on an expensive watch, but willingly hands over the same watch to the next customer who is white.

Everyday abuse

For black people in certain parts of Germany such experiences are commonplace, believes Sven Mekarides, general secretary of the Africa Council in Berlin.

Mr Mekarides left his native Cameroon in 1991 and came to study in a small town in eastern Germany.

He says he and his fellow African students experienced racist attacks and abuse every day.

They were spat at, shouted at and beer bottles were thrown at them.

The worst attack took place in the eastern Berlin district of Lichtenberg in 2004, when Mr Mekarides and his girlfriend were surrounded by seven young men armed with knives.

"We soon realized that it was dangerous to travel in groups of less than three people. And we would never let any of the women go anywhere without accompanying them," he said in a Berlin cafe.


Since then, he said, the situation has not got much better.

According to the Amadeu Antonio foundation there have been 138 racially-motivated murders in Germany since 1990. And last year police registered 140 race attacks in Berlin.

"Those are only the most extreme cases the police know about," said Mr Mekarides.

"Every day we get calls from black people who have been falsely accused of stealing something or insulted on the street."

Clown in a carnival?

Although Mr Mekarides welcomes the discussion about racism the film has sparked off, he believes the filmmaker's exaggerated disguise confirms Europeans' worst stereotypes of an African.

"He just doesn't look like an African," said Mr Mekarides. "The wig, the make-up and the brightly-coloured shirt are all so over the top, he looks like he's a clown in a carnival.

"After he has washed his skin, he can forget the problem. But black people have this problem every day."

Some German newspaper commentators have accused the filmmaker himself of racism for acting out such a negative stereotype of a black person. The character of Kwami speaks broken German and is childlike in his ignorance of dangerous situations.

Anti-racism pressure groups, meanwhile, have complained that the filmmaker is paternally speaking for black people, rather than with them. Why did he not simply film the experiences of real black people?

"It was crucial that I take on these dangers myself," countered Mr Wallraff. "There's no way that I could delegate this role to someone else.

"I've been accused of being racist. But just imagine if I'd sent a black person into situations that I wasn't prepared to go into myself."

Torture and prison

With a celebrated 40-year career of unearthing social injustice, it is impossible to doubt Gunter Wallraff's motivations.

In one assignment he went undercover as an anti-government protestor in 1970s Greece and was tortured and imprisoned.

The film has won praise for starting a debate about racism in Germany. After a Q&A session with Mr Wallraff in a Berlin cinema, one young black woman said the film was "interesting, helpful and needed for Germany".

She said: "I've lived here all my life, and this is the first time I've ever seen an audience like this discussing this issue."

Racism is viewed as unacceptable by mainstream German society, and many urban areas pride themselves on a multi-cultural tolerant atmosphere.

But there do still exist so-called "no-go areas" - particularly in rural eastern Germany - which anti-racism activists advise non-white people to avoid.

Gunter Wallraff's film has already done a lot to spark discussion about racism. With an ageing population, Germany is now having to come to terms with being a country of immigration.

Clearly the debate is just beginning.

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[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">wat a ting. germany a blacklist recards made bye blakk dancehall artists. yet wii ave a latt aff blakk peeps wey luv fii gawn like blakk peeps a dii prablem natt racist oyinbo. soo itt thyme fii tunn da issue arund ann ask iff germany iss a racist country ann iss dat y oyinbo homosexual feel soo empower fii sterotype blakk peeps music as promotinn violence.





iss germany a racist country toward blakks? </div></div>



mi waan kno which country weh yt is de majority, weh chiney a de majority, weh indian a de majority etc, nuh racist.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mi waan kno which country weh yt is de majority, weh chiney a de majority, weh indian a de majority etc, nuh racist. </div></div>

What about where <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">blacks</span> are in the majority?

[H_O]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mi waan kno which country weh yt is de majority, weh chiney a de majority, weh indian a de majority etc, nuh racist. </div></div>

What about where <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">blacks</span> are in the majority? </div></div>
good point

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mi waan kno which country weh yt is de majority, weh chiney a de majority, weh indian a de majority etc, nuh racist. </div></div>

What about where <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">blacks</span> are in the majority? </div></div>

Are they still in control of the country they live in or is it controlled by outside forces?
I even experience racism in Jamaica.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are they still in control of the country they live in or is it controlled by outside forces?</div></div>

LOL this is joke right?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I even experience racism in Jamaica. </div></div>
What they refused to serve your [censored] because you are light skinned?

[Emperah]

Re: is gemany a racist country?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are they still in control of the country they live in or is it controlled by outside forces?</div></div>

LOL this is joke right?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I even experience racism in Jamaica. </div></div>
What they refused to serve your [censored] because you are light skinned? </div></div>

more like we were too dawk and is yt ppl dem did a caytah tuh.
And no I wasn't joking cah none a dem control anyting.

[Nylah]

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though black ppl cant be racist

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

though black ppl cant be racist

</div></div>

No they can't.
Racsim comes with power to do things to ppl based on that alone, like nuh gi dem a job, housing, keep dem out, pull dem ova, hanged, jailed etc.

Black ppl can definitely be prejudiced though.

[Nylah]

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ummmm....okay...that isnt what you said above but whatever.

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
ummmm....okay...that isnt what you said above but whatever. </div></div>

if is de jamaica story yuh talkin bout is caz a yt ppl dem acted dat way. I guess I shouldn't have been up pan dat hill wid dem kinda ppl deh but is a place mi aunt always cyaar dem dignitaries an ting.

[Nylah]

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not the point but black ppl can the worst towards others so that is common assault.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
ummmm....okay...that isnt what you said above but whatever. </div></div>

LOL!

[Emperah]

Re: is gemany a racist country?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">not the point but black ppl can the worst towards others so that is common assault. </div></div>

mi naah disagree wid dat but they still don't have the power to just make things happen all over a persons colour.
All I'm saying is the racism = power
racism brought our ppl to this hemisphere, racism is why dem nuh waan work wid dem &quot;black&quot; president, racism is why they never go to war wid a nex yt country.