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perception that germans out wide their head in blue eyed has never been true and will never be 2 it's and. people always ask me where i'm from that it's not possible to be german and like. from the moment i get up and leave the house in the morning i'm confronted with racist abuse images and syria types of people. as a child alice wanted to have white skin. because i felt bed being black and not

being able to blend in and i was kind of sticking out of the group and being you know different than the rest i didn't want to be different. i am traveling around germany to talk with other people about our experiences with racism my 1st stop this ham that's where i was on it. i had absolutely wonderful parents and that helped me a lot in difficult situations.

i mean i always had a lot of friends about i do remember. that we played these funny games like who's afraid of the black man and tender little negroes that's called in german so and i remember that sometimes they ran after me and said yeah nothing can hurt me in something like ganesan african and as an african and the problem is that african men something bad. as 1st met sammy did looks when i was a teenager and have today's one after germany most successful reface and hip hop artist it's. kind. of a. tradition that records moment you know i do. a lot of us were living as overusing and on that i have come to see sammy in

a studio as you. the way in which this had a number of top 10 hits and it's a little the a 1000000 records. like today he also produces other musicians. just . as he forgets a kid i wanted to be white and he you know. yeah as a kid white and as a teenager i really wanted to be black. only still need to not have this ambiguity it seems so clear cut like on the white side and white people just knew who they were black people did to me i felt like i was in the middle i grew up in a white family in a white neighborhood it was definitely a challenge. the challenge of you know distance vision for me the feeling of being caught in between a something imposed on you from the outside i mean people always say don't you see taunton conscious black and why do you feel of. a defect this yourself don't find

it unusual why should i have to choose whether. i'm fucked up by me or guns you one thing that cause me a fair amount of confusion right from the start was that i have straight hair. does display mean and was involved in machine you know when shooters and when she could sneak going on top of the stand in grade school if some kid called me the n. word and i reacted defensively or aggressively they'd say yes and hey you're not really a nigger because your hair straight couldn't know what's new so for me that was like ok i'm dark enough to get called the n. word but my hair isn't frizzy or curly enough for me to have the right to get upset about it to me that was the 1st contradiction that was imposed on me from the outside world that's he wrote a song for us son about heroes didn't you it's the song i was ashamed of so i told him i wrote the song in 2008 at the time i was reading a harry potter book to my son in the evening at bed times and one night he said he wished he were white because then he could be like his friends in the moment. no

and all you have to do is paint that thing on his forehead and wear around glasses and he'd look like harry potter the new could be a lot of sets and also we have reports that and i wish him good that made me realize that there's an acute shortage of dark skinned superheroes so i wrote the song and made a really nice video to go along with it. his issue is with us we. have. our. advice to the. candidates. leading the. way. for that. but i don't like doing it and i don't like the i don't like seeing the what's left . by the last guy with a long list of this long time that's a long maybe a long long time so. don't write. large money like i

was lying down i think i get it right. it's a high i can remember when i was 13 i was into nevada and that's when i started going to politics and the other kids would say a van like you why you're listening to that and the should be listening to black music i did and i liked it more and then it was the best music scene whatever that means hip hop and r. and b. album from the school on down and is a c. in the and then all of a sudden yes a black person a part of the majority of i'm up on my own vomit enemy and then with these positive associations it's who's it's you must it's you and you got to some as a club with a swell from a single i think that's one of the main reasons i became who i am and it's of the young where this rep thing that's asked of a rap was the 1st thing that gave me a home court advantage so to speak and i'm for tight houses i just had to let my pants hang a little bit lower paying less in this case my cap to the side and move like this

is that the side and everyone was into it it looked authentic and it did well with my exotic status this cause if i did graffiti deejaying collected records started producing rasping and groups and beatboxing all the hip hop disciplines except breakdancing that was too much work so you're telling me in. just body type to get all this. only with words. as a journalist i don't have a home court advantage. when i decided to become a journalist and when i became an anchor i was actually i think the 1st female black anchor and germany i didn't have any role models. told you not to take the whole thing home for me it's really important that

children you know when this witch on the t.v. that might see me and think oh right i can be on t.v. and read the news and i don't have to have a job which was filled racist stereotypes for me that would be great if i could help bring dump areas and that sense. that people have been living in germany for 400 years and today they numbered about 1000000 from me in cologne after come to see. the disappointed that. he was born in 1025000000000. why did your father come from chemical into germany back then come on by your dotel room was a german colony to. be run for you. just as people used to dream of going to america. at that time many young africans wanted to come to germany.

there was no such thing as what we now call racism. at least not as we know it today. you see it only started to take shape when the young africans started asserting themselves for instance by marrying german women oh. and the reaction was there taking away our women. in quincy in the name on the following way. and you can now you appeared in ethnographic exhibits also known as humans zeus what was it like as tens affordably of imagine human beings. being exhibited like objects literally exhibiting earth present from what they supposedly represented of namely africa with vast skirts and drums dancing saunders.

didn't the idea was that people under splay were foreign exotic. and more showing spectators what their homeland was like this and. basically it was just a big show. me you know i might as good i'm going to good numbers show evidence how crazy is that us a german was supposed to imitate this will perceive. africa i was just such a huge continental congress and he's a consummate. window had shrugs i was sort of i'm a black man so of course i should be able to do that because that's how it is it's in my blood and let's talk about the nazi era it's so hard to imagine because black people would obviously attract attention in every genre that was so racist that's right as a member of the kind then. we didn't need to wear yellow stars. everyone could see

we were aliens. did you know a lot of other black people in germany oh yeah sure everyone knew everyone into the mirror so many colonial films made back then but many of us would meet up as part of the cast. yet that's me. this is mine and that's my closest it's not like the fact that the shot a close up of me. and everyone who was black was in that film. and. it was a good thing i was 16 at the time. and it struck me that my god we're all here together with them. and they could take us away without anyone noticing or not

just as both they did that and that thought weighed very heavily on me this. is going good thank god i never came to paris but in the via we were too few in number to matter to the nazis that we could. when the guy who boy you know all contact with white women with the pharaoh had been horrible from the field. i would have been sterilized still a little. and i might also have been charged with racial defilement being ice and shunned among us all for i'll have you say that you took great care not to get too close to white woman all girls. was it like how you being all trying to become invisible how can we imagine that you wanted to 1st see men the sleestak that's the right word invisible i mean could it become the only of course with

a face like this i could never completely disappear. but i tried to. i think have sense who i really did that's who smoked and skipped as i and the main thing was to keep your head down can your mouth shut. i made sure i did that as well. to the point that i started to start on the social. yeah i started terribly. well been understood listening to the difficult often horrible things you experienced. how did you find the strength to go on but yeah that was it well i have to say with god's help. i became a religious person the league as i mentioned above. that's what you hope. to do one year michelle always says there's nothing in the german constitution that

states what a german is supposed to look like but some people haven't gotten the message for them we're still excited. when i was a child complete strangers would touch my hand say it feels like a bird's nest. right dad oh my god oh my god it's good to see you still see my watch breakfast t.v. every morning i turn on the set and think i'm afro german woman on german public t.v. be as we're so proud of you. oh you're just such a wonderful job does or doesn't do was the story that you tear may look at your hair we have to talk about that yes we do. that i will work in some coconut oil in the.

same salon to view that i have decided that it is enough now i love your curls ok and then i would always wake up using the movies are good these are fucking hurls. now i'm really happy to be talking to s. that talk about the founder of cars a local all clearly had magazine that's how sometimes i think that people's has really politicized it's like a political statement whether you have to have done it naturally the stereotype is that the head is messy and wild that doesn't go over well in the professional world but also how the afro hair just isn't acceptable. our society still doesn't comply with our ideals of beauty. look at beyond saying she's a black woman she's a performer of the she's the embodiment of empowerment but she still wears

a straight blonde we thank you for the checkmate it's kind of anti you know i've met women who work in law offices in places like that we get into trouble if they wear their hair naturally that kind. not traditionally hot off to the south can you tell us about the natural ham movement does is this sort of fell into it. it's about allowing people with afro textured hair to wear it naturally without causing a fuss or having to feel self-conscious. that's what life is about that with accepting yourself a good set of names absence of times. change. to be comfortable in your own skin that's the goal but it's not so easy. i think the problem is that if you see all these stereotypes about africa about tribes about being primitive of that perrier native underdeveloped. it's

good to see you. part of the problem on the images from the days of colonialism and the investors streets named after german a nice and colonialists it was c.n.n. berlin in 1804 that european nations had a conference when they cough up africa and took on a nice. hot. bath and he had a street festival and at forcing the city to change the name from last. week. and here was just crazy akins political scientists an extremist why it's important for you to remain districts the term is one of the oldest german words. person box should look at the roots of the term it has a latin and the greek roots morris and morris i guess that means doc or black but

it also means stupid even primitive and so you see already in the origin of the word that there is this idea of like if there are each event if we look into the history of the street name if we see that the street was named quiet its name in the context of the brandenburg involvement in the transatlantic and slave mint and to prize how would you say this germany deal with this colonial history i think is a huge problem. a lot of aspects of german korean history are not widely known we can't even begin to understand national socialism without looking at the colonial and to see this because we find that they are ideological political but also personal continuity. linking german colonialism and national socialism. please and i set off to uncover some of the traces. colonialism in the german

capital. a k i think i moved to berlin 10 years ago but this defers time i'm seeing this festival can you explain why i'm a c. so we had out of the house and this here shows us the trail of tobacco so you see and slaved african men harvesting tobacco then enslaved african women packaging the tobacco and it is sorted and weighed you know as a white overseer and then it's package further it's made ready for shipment and you see one of the white oversea as it's already lounging and having a smoke but then you see the ship departing and then not you see it's berlin because you see the silhouette of the german the french dome so this clearly explains the source of the wealth that was used to build this place right but of course it also implicates the people that frequented here and the suffering that is also depicted here. because people often defined by this skin color the well known

south african artist robin vote plays with the stereotypes he experienced apartheid in south africa now he's been living in berlin for 14 he's. bought it could tell you this year i can see you working on a new p.c.'s. i have a work in process and it's a world guy some modern this is about myself african i did the t. . and of course the african is a strong some bull it's interesting that you chose here of course i can identify with that but what does i mean look at what role of detail at a for have play for you he became a way to to classify a place been sold to a place through he to. who do depict a kind of

a stand and before the racial category. saying that if they go through my hair they say it's f. i have i am exactly black on the public at a west coast that is colored always mixed race. so if the goal waned we invaded to find you here you because you guys as white how were you classified as a laugh non-classified as call it as if it is a person of mixed race and so on might be and so my grandparents and. in many ways my cultural background is quite complex because i know you know we don't associate ourselves with black and neither white. sorry but i know you view it as black d.c.'s german content what i think is in the

german gone thinks i'm viewed as out of oh really so that's actually pretty interesting. i use off as a way to subvert but also to to play with. and on the valve will want these kind of cultural labels off. this particular piece reading speed of middle painting everything needs to be defined it seems to be categorized and i'm trying to knob explore the notion of something that is completely in this sudden it's going to be tea and you find. that. i was born in 1981 and in the early ninety's we had a serious offer of racist attacks in germany and also and highest to get it and selling it was really backed by stand the skunk. during the attacks. it was really

heartbreaking to see and it frightened me so much as a child. and i think that's something that is also very scary if you look at the recent vice and racist attacks on refugees in germany and so few of the people who take them were caught and put on trial and i think that's a very dangerous message to everyone who experience racism because it means ok you can be attacked but you know you can attack people but you can get away with it in that it gives us the message ok people can do to you whatever they want they won't be put on trial. and that scares me

a lot. he's about us an apprentice truffaut working in the east end german state off sex and the on the hot he hasn't been living here for very long in 2013 he fled book enough hostel for germany his job gives the 28 year old some stability but my but otherwise his life is often difficult recently he will speak not by of right wing talk i mean east and the town of pool where he lives as a few 8 months ago that would be an upright chia tell us about what it should be right i went into the saddle and saw a man that if with a woman and child here. and he said why didn't you look at that sure did you see the end waited for us to look at this black piece of trash didn't. i didn't say anything that on the show i went to the counter to pay this call and he went like this. and i said this is what do you want from me and he says i'll show you the

show i went over there and he hit me 3 or 4 times like this guy you know muscle history of how bad the way you had it in a bowl i listen to i felt a lot of pain in my stomach losses and i come down the block for about a month or so and we're not holding. on but how does it feel when no one steps in to help you when you're being beaten up and you often treated with hostility and insulted and i'm at how do you cope. but to not cause your so i'm always afraid when i go out now in a so to see who can i go to work i'm afraid of what might happen along the way that some people make just just like i'm going to cut your throat or it is seeing and they shout go back to where you came from. do that to me every day. this is the courthouse in the town of stand up it's where the men who beat up on trial. how do you. the annoying you're about to

see the person would take you as just. i'm not afraid. i can't wait to see him again for and look into his eyes dizzy and fall saddam is you're. the attacker who has a long criminal record was found guilty of assault and sentenced to 10 months in jail but he appealed was just a reason for this hearing. the. cameras aren't allowed inside the courtroom that the. after 4 i'll ask the court the germans.

how was it for you today to assure me i never expected it to go so well in the desert bus and very pleased to miss us and. to turn. the conviction is upheld but the attack that intends to appeal again. once you wake up in the morning and just switch on the radio or you switch on the t.v. you're confronted with all these stereotypes about africa and. it's really difficult to talk about racism in germany because once i experience it when i talk about racism people say oh you're too emotional you're overreacting to comfy true i'm sure the person didn't mean it that way so they don't really take it serious and that it's really hard because i feel like i am not taking seriously my experience it's. just false well i think that the super of. i don't suppose there is. without regret

he should all yes. and and listening in the author of this play is the artist and writer god akila story she's originally from particle but has lived for many years a 1000000000. for me it took a lot of effort to research election history had to go out because there was nothing that was presented to me in school for example what told us silencing play in your eyes i think in the last words that i've been doing i'm very concerned with this question of silencing and speaking and with the with the fact that it's not that we have not been producing knowledge or have not been speaking but we believe in a system that constantly silence or make these knowledge is invisible racism is really with the for equally for me a ghost that our society never took care of and never cared because we live

in these very white narcissistic society that don't want to deal with it and then she said well that's me you're not black i don't think that you are like. and she said that in a way as a. suzumiya friend even when did you. start feeling that no i don't believe this dominant narratives you just talked about when did you hear this played out it's had no no no this can't be it there must be something you know. i don't know if i can tell you. but i believe it has always been there. now as a mother i when i am with my children and i hear them bringing. the topic races me even though they are 2 in 4 or 5 it's just time 5.

it is still i see that aware that is not right and it's extremely complicated to explain such a brutal history and this is the trauma of black people and people from many other than us for those who went through similar experiences collective experiences that you cannot explain and apply any logic to something that is so absolutely most illogical and not aggressive because this is aggressive yet i comb i do not want to be better. let's not turn to a question that i've heard more times than i can count how come your parents are white the and suck my biological father came from zimbabwe but actually the mother from germany directly after i was born in hamburg i was adopted by a german swedish couple. and for me they are tags.

this is india posh she too was adopted i grew up in best germany she grew up in the east we inside an old guard tower from the days of communist east germany the war divided berlin until 1989 in the us biological father is from guinea he was studying at the university of light see how many met her biological mother but she was married and her husband was in jail nevertheless he said he could imagine raising a child. star money. but he didn't know that i was going to look the way i look at it as if that i would be a black child. on a man who died because i'm leaders and this man was a hard core rightwinger. what's not my not what he got out of jail soon after i was born. it was obvious that i wasn't a white child. and had hired. and he tried he attempted to kill me

for playing or and my left him with my biological mother saw him dangling me out the window bag so in all likelihood she said before the child is killed i will send her away. if he had and at some point she decided to put me up for adoption. out of the influence of the. best. ally in the last move wardens for i think that subconsciously in any case you never forget that you were abandoned by a biological parents you were born and were unwanted you take that with you to your grave. kin to me it still seems unfair to just give away a child like that. kinde it and for it to get. a. coward joyce all talk like. in the other works as

a duck trainer and has adopted several neglected dogs. we've asked them how was it for you and place school. yard to problematic via dozens thought one problem was the teachers who thought we shouldn't eat with the other kids to finish with an argument as him. we were supposed to wash our hands really thoroughly as if something could rub off on the other kids. we have all quantity of the moments and 1000 whatever i was going to concerts and we weren't allowed to nap near the other children. 'd and a minute on board should my parents did everything to protect us. they gave up everything they had to be there for us kids they fought for us they did what they

could and i think it was the right thing that they may have to explain it. in the hospital is another thing you hear so often oh adoptive parents can never be the real parents but that is complete nonsense you really feel the love they have for their children just like any other parents in every age times and absolutely they protect you and do everything for you and your family whether someone gave birth to you are not absolutely for me blood relationship is meaningless. behold new groups for one track are good for me too and as for me it's immaterial and them and it and as my parents told me about how they drove to the children's home and light sick where i was. and i crawled straight into my papa's arms. for me it was clear that's my papa and that's really great but that's my part of you and the out as well today as to tire sharing and that's how it was until the end we were really close. best resuming

a father no. it wasn't until the age of 17 that indian i met her biological mother. ben's and we had no one to go off. we went for a walk and she said that you just i didn't want you to turn out so black yes that was the very 1st sentence i heard from my biological mother. and her age because i die sounds. ok well as of what to expect. 'd talking with other effort germans about our experiences gives me strength that's one reason why i'm a member of the initiative of black people in germany every year they want to end your meeting this is the 1st time i'm attending. your mother by the by

the frog or through the chef in the kitchen in zion the elf garden via nests the poster i'm so whole in the house and temperate too it's a control issue it's put off sharon to do it to her is holding us on taney his rating up to this and around 270 people have come to the initiatives and the only thing others hearkened the group was found over 30 years ago. take a day or less and the steering committee. is that diet you tell me how was the initiative found it. it was thanks to 2 happy coincidences the 1st audrey lord was in berlin because i'm who was i don't know she was an american writer from the black feminist movement in the us but she was teaching in berlin with because over the course of her time there she met a lot of black women who came to her readings you know discovered that they didn't

know each other. so she hit on the idea of connecting them so that they could exchange experiences on dot com she also brought out what i believe is the 1st book of stories told by black people about black people in germany. crossing the secret mission transformation into i am a black man everyone is welcome to read aloud at initiatives me to you and when i look at a white man i mean i reveal what i think. knowing in the growing of the night when i talk about. this is the theme of this meeting is somehow meant in south korea what does it mean. because our compartment mentions empowerment means showing black people especially young people there was a lot they can do themselves and from that they can take charge of a lot of things develop themselves and establish new perspectives of self care

within a society influenced by racism entails ensuring that he was a black person you stay healthy protect yourself and grow stronger in the mission it's a mixture it involves politics but also drinking smoothies or doing yoga or sports or. the boom just because something snapped cheika give it a somewhat. go. and to 2011 he played in the german national team. you could stick.

a day in the life of someone. and given even custody of us the very 1st black german national player but you were also one of the 1st so i did not give you as i started playing for germany in 2001 i was set to give up just for this time last summer every possible it's not for the cost it was more half and half what does that mean i was by your mother but if you go. let's just say i was the 1st really black was here she was the 1st black african you know and that's why . i felt it wasn't easy for me back then to decide. i could have played from ghana i was told off for going back to have decided to play for god the time of golf especially generous mood i'm i was in uganda but then they didn't play much on the go i went back to germany and germany was very insistent and at some point i said ok i'll play for germany it was very rewarding very interesting it wasn't easy but it was nice but it wasn't easy for this some people some. even who don't want to

accept us and that was my big problem and i want also to see my you do something for your country but you're still the black i thought i was 6 here's an example i was team yourself after the world cup in 2006 we came in certain people accepted us and then suddenly a month later you get the food and call the neighbor during a match and that was a moment where seriously consider no longer playing for germany it hurt. me that was a cartoon i did after hanging out this so-called with get someone became a household name and today he's the minute child cheick is on the 20 suites you know just going up and gonna die. i have come back out of the norm from among 5 hours away from michael vick was in class it was a small village where people didn't have much notice when after school we play soccer with balls made of socks on the heights when i look at my size he has everything he doesn't know what to do with it with money possum i had to struggle

to get 2 square meals a day. and that was how i grew up and it affected me going to submit all that made me said goals and saying so i have to give my all to achieve something buswell russian and i sometime over the coming where i honestly don't know that. i can no longer understand why as a child i wanted to be white even if it takes a lot of strength and energy to deal with racism to hold your head up high i wouldn't want a different skin color but anything in the book. for me being black means so many syrians it means to me that i'm seen differently but what's going on inside that something else. is just think it's nothing more than

a skin color and i hope my blackness blooms and becomes my beauty ya can wear all the same 1st and foremost i'm a person but a yes at my age i wouldn't want to change anything about the lot who i have is more people about but i'll tell you one thing locks are pretty cool just include don't you think that the. eco india. how can a country's economy grow harmony people can find. when there are do worse to look at the bigger picture india a country that faces many challenges and whose people are striving to create a sustainable future clever projects from europe and india eco. next on the detail of. what keeps us in shape

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