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with dw business beyond the v, as in george started as he sees being german as something defined by skin colors of iceland that's being german means being white. and those who aren't white are essentially new comments and don't have the same right to be part of society as white people. and the vice i mentioned i always would warn, in germany, i'm a german native speaker. i'm. i've been to africa once in my life as part of a package tour. it doesn't get more german than that can come the,
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the people of course asked me where i come from. and i say, from concourse, and your mother all sate also from comp us does not answer your question or do you still need that little piece of the puzzle that explains why look the way i do? it kept these o, c, u. in britain they say we are here because you were there, i think is where are you here because you're there. yeah, i think that's a very important part of the answer on society here. must take responsibility for what happened in its history with name was the desk of the 60 pacific pacific. and now that we speak amend. this is exactly the right moment to look at the black german history on the easy and how it's always been a part of john long history and time and then the quotes and pods, reaching out, trying to check the sheets the
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if the pain on demarco's family is in its 5th generation in germany, the these lovely odd size, the best facts. what you see here, a typical own gym and household. i start with the wood paneling and fabric wallpaper stuff to peter as best you can't get a bit of snap shorter jim and my son that i'm in 18. 96, her great grandfather,
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mundane god, became the 1st african to acquire german citizenship. and humble. suspends an amazing kaiser that was fried on moto cars, off he was known to be very loyal to the improvement and very gentleman, george hop, atlanta. my family for me has a long history. i no longer see on its back as it would pick. so it says on a d c list, which means having experience or having survived a lot to and the survival part is especially important to us. is the fact that even back then they fault for the humanities to be recognized as on the, there's of the state of tom at what became known as the berlin west africa conference in 1884. the european powers carved up the continent among themselves
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without african participation. germany then also became a colonial power ruling over tow go camera room, german, east africa and german south west africa. even before the 19th century germans had been profiting from the slave trade. now columnist sees the entire territories, culminating in a genocide in the media in 19 o. 4. meanwhile, growing numbers of africans were arriving in germany. the probably akin is a british historian who researches the history of black europeans the colonial outside of sophistic for the interest in colonial period is important for the emergence of a black community. asked them because it was the 1st time that hundreds, if not thousands of black people were able to come to germany. and of course on come con i wonder is enough field of fishing the game for many different reasons. there's an i'm several 100 people, for instance,
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were brought over for the human zoos, the turret germany, or across europe in storage, some months small, cannot find out from their 1st appearance in the 18 seventy's. these as an illogical expositions proved extremely popular with the european public at the hanover. so in 1913, the openings were hired as contract workers. they were put on display, often with their families. visitors paid an entrance fee to see them. as colonists were committing genocide in africa, back home in germany, the middle class were being one over to the so called colonial adventure d e d. and these are exhaustive sizes ation. romanticize ation. this idea of top, let's take the family to the soon. like we know today, note from instead of looking at animals, so here we get to seek subject people as if you're open each month are going to accept these people when representing the own culture or communities photos colton
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. dr. straight hoffman is on on. um, it was a stage new mexico and then had nothing to do with who they actually was foster dog instead. boss, i just got it to human. vicki hopkins, the, the 1st state organized colonial exhibition in germany, took place in 1896 in berlin, 106 men, women and children were brought in from german colonies. the photographs show how people were racially degraded and forced to be exhibited the plus builds. dusty dodge of the colonial authorities wants to portray africans as less civilized, as primitive civil is he up? those came up to see what's inside and they wanted to use this image to legitimize germany's colonial project as well. yeah, there civilizing mission. a kazi does
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a civilizing mission, dodson thing, the germans bringing culture and civilization to africans, including awfully connor. the berlin was the capital of an overseas empire. the colonial administration needed craftsman, translators, and other specialized personnel. young africans were brought over to germany for training. most of the men and drawn from the african elite, some were still just the school children. their parents paid considerable psalms for their education. the new arrivals called one another compatriots, but they were not for seen as a permanent part of german society, the in 1891 funding that d could travel to humble work from the wall a camera room. he came from a wealthy family and could already speak german. he then completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, the android to essential. he was
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expected to demonstrate his shoemaking skills in the big shop windows portraits feelings on our side and that made him feel like he too was on display. name is which made him feel very uncomfortable, hooked up to a home at them. so in the end, he changed his profession and became a merchant assembly under vics for while traveling on business, deacons met a woman called in media. interracial marriages were banned in the colonies for reasons rooted in racist ideology. but didn't get that. then dancing and prussia, the couple married and had 2 daughters haven't got endorsed, highly respected, afro german family. they ran a store selling tobacco and other colonial goods. the lives of black people in germany would have little interest to most historians until catalina, a good toys work appeared. she was the 1st to research the stories of afro germans,
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including that of monday and a deep sea stone. because i was astonished to discover that he was granted citizenship. i'm to come up with, you know, because it was so early that there weren't get objections from the colonial administration. of said, can y'all have provide some house? but most of the people who applied later wherever reject it in would have this done for via got after the 1st world war, german imperialist expansion was brought to an end, at least for the time being. the treaty of versailles resulted in germany seating its colonies the at the same time, french troops occupied the rhineland. among their rank sport african soldiers, which german nationalist saw as a humiliation. they launched a racist smear campaign,
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calling the black shame that propaganda in turn fueled racism against all black people across germany into a far more dangerous form. the blood from the very start there was resistance. in 1919, germany's 1st black trained driver 19 the bobo and other people of african descent, listed their demands and a historic petition. the f boss on tire. dave was part of the anti colonial resistance, which had always been the how does what is it got? there was never a time when black people didn't find find or stand up. so the right was the few years i stood in because it's to tasha a kelly as a scholar inactive as to as documented the lives of people who brought about change in black german history. although marteen,
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the bobo had sworn allegiance to the weimar republic. she wanted to achieve something new with a petition. equal rights for black people. 18 africans living in germany signed the petition to the german parliament, the divorce and us. you're awfully kind of want to jo africans to have the opportunity to attend university or college auction. they wanted the board probably for personal reasons to the recognition in some interest demonization of averages between black men and white women on attempts, boredom on like a teen vaughn warranty. but they also want the determinants representative of the parliament type of marketing to both to be precise, to mocking to move as on the the petition failed,
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but it marked of the dawn of the 1st black movement in germany monday. and the date was one of the men who signed his name today, those events are remembered on a commemorative pillar in downtown berlin testament, that's my great grandad agendas. i think it's fantastic historical got his toilet. this must keep. no, it's such a good feeling to know the migrate. glen sava was also part of the fight to construct the. as the roaring twenties hit, germany black american dancer, josephine baker became a celebrated figure on the stages of berlin. extended this m a. the bus, we always call it the grass, skirt, air, and shrub black man, how to walk around wearing a grass skirt. not a suit mixed with them on board
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number line and 192510 door. vanya and the child was one of the few surviving black witnesses of the nazi era, until his death in 2019. as a child, he was put to work in the circus, and, and the so called human sues. he hated being docked at, or when complete strangers would run their fingers through his hair. things got even worse with the introduction of a notorious note in bag race laws. in 1935 colonial migrants were stripped of their citizenship. pandora vanya and the child was issued an aliens passport, and was rendered stateless. he lost his job at a hotel. the finding work became nearly impossible. one of the few exceptions was a niche market. the movies, the,
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the most expensive film of the nazi era moons, housing required many black extras to play servants and a turkish power. the the role conforms to degrading stereotypes that further the nazis racist audiology the young and say, i do ivonya me style play the sultan's fanning. boy, only later did he realize he'd been exploited in dm's, in the excuse me, exploited in the sense that i never played a positive role. bush of pussy t for the was only ever decoration, uncomfortable because they needed exotic people impulse to dx or they needed those . so today we know we were exploited by this month. misquote, quote, the, the notion of white supremacy was celebrated in many nazi colonial films. the
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regime had plans to re conquer former overseas colonies. clocks in africa was one of many films to the great black people and use overtly racist dialogue. so those are not even a total of the events in this clip with the protagonist and gestures to the people approaching and says he's seen them before. quote at the berlin zoo, afro german after 4 routinely cast and such rules. the medicine man was played by louis brody, the grand father of abena, under michael landa from you in my family, and a large number of freaking people here, only survived the nazi era with this because they would need it for these gym. and colonial fields, gosh, from 1939 onwards. daily life became increasingly dangerous for black people. the
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dks were among many families who lost their home and had their passports revoked monday and that these business went bankrupt. interracial couples faced persecution around 400 children, fathered by black french occupying troops, worked forcibly sterilized. many black people were forced to go into hiding. at least the 2000 were killed in concentration camps. the fro, german community was being eradicated by the nazis or doesn't zoo is book place. does this kind of the line was to ensure that there wouldn't be another generation of black people in germany, even sort of more importantly, mia? that there would be no black europeans or p a game. so the, in the wake of the 2nd world war, the allied occupation forces in germany included a number of black troops from the united states. the
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1945 about 5000. the children were born to black americans, soldiers, and german women in west germany. into the 1950s, the children were still the subject of anthropological research. that's let me try the outcome speech. so 1st thing in the future is very important to understand that this idea of so called races being unable to mix stem from earlier and colonial times, at least most google involved on the 5th was an idea that prevailed well beyond the 2nd world. hold on even became enough. suddenly it was the children of the allies that now cause problems. again, dost vida i might, i know right . right on 96. missed being in this archive will sound from 1950 to a west german parliamentary and use as a racist slower in reference to more than 3000 to by racial children. she says they
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quote, present a special type of human and racial problem. even our countries come back, the conditions are unsuitable for them. and quote, hundreds of children were given up for adoption, mostly to families in the united states. this west german television report from 1957 featured, a single mother says he listens before leslie from that. and then he acute the sound that we can see if it's the end of the gallons, it is an illusion. dispensing yeah. on the obviously most of the things you've done to help get it to them or how does the last, what seems like you know, what is the
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yeah being cost. it was one of these children born after the war he would go on to become the 1st black man to play for a german national team. his father was an american g. i was, i was born here in georgia if you to be my mother is german. i feel german, honestly to me for us, for me playing for the german national team was the greatest. i'm a doctor. and being close to the was born in munster and 1946. his 6 older siblings were all white. he never got to know his father on his way to school. people would routinely give him the nazi salute. the countless racist remarks still haunt him today. the funny thing it was felt absolute health
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disruption does fall moments and even women. and when i go into a strong room and it may be misbehave a little, what they'd say come on black kid, how do i go back to africa? i forgot it was that was how it was day in day out. so james, jaime was meant to be put in a home of it. but my mother refused to send me away. and honestly, she had got 6 white children, 6 and then a black one comes along to them. yeah. so and people pointed, you know, to find anything on up on football, offered a chance to escape the humiliation because it didn't cost. it was good. extremely good. he played center forward in germany's top division. the building is leaking and scored the goal of the season in 1974 for kicker is opened by
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later that year he played for west germany's national team in a european championship qualifier in the front of the hospital. but back home, sands of rival teams continued their races to chance unabated the miracle, they have always been nasty remarks. trust me. you need to be pretty tough in germany. sometimes. there was a section in which all we shouted 10 gays and one of the things a little under the media celebrated him, but always as an outside or one of them the brown bumper. so they could have written the bomber. and he also, i'm not that brown bomber. there always had to be something that last time you all can tell me the in 1990 close to the was wrongly accused of rounding an arcade. a football fan claimed to have recognized him from
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his skin color. there was no actual evidence to support the case. cost of them was acquitted after spending 6 months in custody. the try, i think i was the 1st black child to start school and caught bus and couplets had a population of probably $40000.00 at the time. the i don't remember seeing a black person before it was can do so. and trots mentioned disease. as i say, i didn't even know there was such a thing. so it must be got to the end of the boat
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was born in communist eastern germany in 1962, her father, a student from gun and left the g d r. she was raised by determined women, her mother, and 2 grand mother. she was a very good student and was selected to be a school crossing guard. list is amateur footage of the proud family. john saw it was, there was something different about me from but i learned that from others because it wasn't anything i felt myself. what i saw was they all play like me. i do math and gymnastics the same way. they do. yep. something was different about me. and as it was not something that was discussed at home, you just wasn't important. and you could see it. yeah. give me a 1000000 in the hotel. oh, isn't one not in the mail. finishing lots of what was that? i was alabama. angela davis angela davis became the face of black power in east germany. the american scholars,
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civil rights activist and communist was wrongfully imprisoned in the us until her acquittal in 1972. all right. the engine, this is angela davis, had a huge impact on my life. i finish it when i look at the photos now. the for look was all the rage back time and of course i had an afro and i wore glasses on us and wherever i went in the east somehow i was always angela davis. there was a political struggle taken up by the ged or that was good for me. what time do you mean? in the late 19 seventy's, eastern germany recruited a growing number of workers from vietnam, angola, mozambique, and other fellow commune to nations. more than $200000.00 people total by the time of german reunification. but they were obliged to go back home after
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a few years. and the authorities did not envision their broader social integration . gabrielle, available in the world remains largely white. one spa and commission is poor because they weren't supposed to assimilate into not to go into the cloth. the foreign workers were housed separately from the rest of the population. so this one is, so it wasn't like you were suddenly seeing a black person in the supermarket or the swimming pool. a lot odd to this comes with what's in these 4 volts, studied medicine, and was already a qualified doctor when this footage was taken in the early 19 ninety's. she always wanted to be a guy in ecologist, but the local authorities stipulated that she's specialized in high genet care, despite the country shortage of gynecologists at the time. people protested, does a for me to dispose of the selected it was because of my skin color, pussy young lawyer, but it's going to be in your gynecologist means close physical contact with people
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. and while as a hygiene specialist, i'd be sitting in an office and basically out of sight. i said i could see absolutely no reason to not be working in my chosen fields or tessa. she took the issue to the next level, threatening to send a complaint to the east german head of state and east konica. yon fi t products which the upshot was. 2 or 3 weeks later i received a letter informing me that they were happy to comply with my request. because the city really did need more gynecologists call to also because i became one. the spanish expert auto miko grew up at the same time as gabrielle available. but in the other germany, in west berlin. after jobs in paris and london,
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she started working for an international n g o. as a young woman in the 1980s she wanted to become an optician and asked a friend for help in finding an apprenticeship. yeah. and in kansas city at 6 know she was very embarrassed when i asked again whether she could find someone to take meal and as an apprentice little name. hold on this up to me said no. unfortunately, they told me, yeah, we know you, but people aren't ready for black hands to be poking around in the white person's face and an advice and desist on for me. when does one or 2 and it was a big chunk sydney shock for disease and very awkward for her 2 of us wizell are they asked, it was the 1st time i realized it wouldn't be easy to do the job. i wanted them to also include an issue of hon. mister bay. now demarco wanted to stop
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feeling like a stranger in her own country and went looking for people who felt the same way. in 1985, she met a group of women connected to the american poet and career civil rights activist. audrey lord, lord was a guest lecturer at the free university in west berlin, who encouraged black women to discover their communities history and celebrate their heritage. the sizes harvey, i'm the lloyd, it was like kind of tiffany, a really good uh we role there without shyness needs oh experiences of desire as sadness, carson and so i was, it was great. i am it enabled us to break house at that isolation, or is it let soon to chrome or is it not students to come on in that sense of community carrie? just as much. i've talked to inside the guitar. yeah. i love that comes to us and
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i'm, it was like we've been existing in a room with no air conch status. and i felt when we met audrey lord, the african american poet, and she was simply interested in our lives. it would not suggest that we introduce ourselves to each other folks logged on to the world when the of it was flushed in this file. it's quite a big deal from miami as we were still very young. and it seemed to uh, cause of god. but and it's the 1st meeting that would be 31st and they would be very excited because to everyone, it would be the 1st time being in a group of us on the african means people who have the same experience the same. yeah. who could, without talking about it would understand you the
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together with activist my i am contacting the organ toya and wrote a book called showing our colors. the project helped them to develop a positive self image. at the same time, audrey lord, urge them to self identify as pro germans or black germans, as is um, it was inclusion because until then stopped, we'd always been objectified in society of the dental. and these are cafe. shocked how people talked about task is completed before we were the subject of various political and academic debate and put me to show the business of taking out the button. let me draw think this, showing our causes project was the 1st time we were leading the narrative using such a political voice to an appointment to assist. and it was the start of the 2nd black movement in germany with the founding of the initiative of black people in germany. and later it's sister organization a day for, for black women in germany. the
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1989 saw the phone with the berlin wall in the time when many hopes for a free year and a better life. the just over a year later, not long after german reunification, eastern town of eva, his father made headlines. a model of more than 50 neo nazis attacked young african contract workers outside the local restaurant. on the day on tonio, from angola was beaten into a coma with one of the attackers standing on his head on tonio died 2 weeks later at the age of 28 or for you always in demand to as i do the looking back very well. i just feel really heavy mail causes bear with me is seeing a colleague and brother who lived with us died more sane,
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just because he was black out and put it in there with like his friend. i'm a do on tonio, you'll never know the state in the country after the collapse of the communist regime. they both come to east germany from angola as contract workers in 1987 both had hoped to study on tonia wanted to be an aircraft engineer. instead, he ended up working at a meat packing factory. the con tonio fell in love with a german woman and was looking forward to soon becoming a father and building a family. comma day on tonio was the 1st murder victim of right wing violence and re unified germany. more attacks would follow in both the east and the west. young . i'm a new guy remembers the atmosphere back then by system it to me. yeah. i
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0 finish of what about me? yeah. i so it's kind of i so if i went out on the streets, that same thing could happen to me. when didn't moment vocalist for me, it was involved with a really bad time for us to whom is that because this is an kid was like for the ones that are under more hasn't been and we don't know when you're going to die. find 2 steps or door when you lose a leg or an arm. but that's all this is josie meant to or we were terrified, buxton and devout c and c, a gross for or it was around this in certain time that comes on and was born in the east german city of you know, today he researches radicalization and is a social worker, the
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teen grew up with the feeling that something bad because it happened to him at any time to cease for music. do you like to be that man? no detours for them. she will not go into the playground or somewhere else after school. but going straight home, if you met with friends, then at their home, is it possible i do, you know, to most of the time when you met outside and then only very close to home or in groups? i would also does. you knew that every time you left your home, it was potentially dangerous. is this putting certain feelings? as a young boy, he had no idea of the neo nazi and nephew group forming in his neighborhood where future members be out to shape up and move. and one, los attended the youth club on the corner. somehow adam said that he was seldom
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truly st. ready the routine violence of the 19 ninety's may have subsided, but not the racism. in 2016 corner lot, adam was racially harassed by a group of drunk people, while on his way to the supermarket. he called the police for assistance asking they be removed from the square footage to stop this good while you got when the officer refused to come and remove them. so i could be able to, i tried to explain again, was why i thought that was necessary losses differently, but they were racially abusive. there might racially abuse other people that day do some talk with the pleasant calling on this to swing plots for violence models, least then the police officer said something like when i was after the same as you're just making a big deal about the color of your skin you help us get food, you like your multiple hold. hold on like young black people of his
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generation in the former west, germany lacked the community and felt his was alone struggling the former east. but he changed that in 2018. he found that a local branch of germany's oldest civil rights group for black people with only 4 people in the beginning. today he's a member of the executive v i s d have had annual meetings for the last several decades. calling about m 1st attended one in 2019 the original finish classes that i can succeed, website meal, i'm just going there. and seeing so many black people will they cover anything a completely different atmosphere? it was just incredible and unbelievably enriching. partial the defaults and mentioned the some black people i know now one is clifton who had already been to these national meetings as children and say it was crucial for their own development. um, you know, i will tell you so to have the space full retreat and empowerment to home to know
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you have these awful experiences all year long and he is gone. see all of you. but then there's this one period in the year was give you some where you can reach, charge your batteries on which cough tide, immerse yourself in another world. in a, you know, i'm looking at it and talking about the human rights to a life free of racism. that's a key political issue that's motivated the community who absolutely have to compile. remember my childhood as being all of lives. i never experienced the time and refugee housing is anything bad nor did. i'm select that image. people like to create for me who was born there. it was completely normal house and i was at home. there were lots of kids. at the moment, it was only over time that i realized it wasn't a normal upbringing. police no malice, fox is in 2019. i mean not that to hey,
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it became the 1st arrow german deputy speaker of a regional parliament. 3 years later, she became the 1st black state minister. i'm that i'm going to come from an early age. your minded up, the fact that you don't look like everyone around you, they're soft on tassels. adults especially makes you feel that, like they're interesting to know where you're at from a distance to a stomach, stood with some boys when you're 6 or 7 years old and think i live here and you don't ask yourself all these questions about identity or ancestry. and i had come to, i mean, not to to say it was born in refugee housing after her parents fled molly in 1992. at the age of 12, she became a german citizen. as a student leader, she showed an early commitment to combining discrimination. today as a politician, initialize the coast time state parliament, she tackles structural racism and public institutions and society
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at me and tell us about your racist experiences. i'm often asked and usually i have absolutely no desire to do so for 2 reasons. firstly, because many believe that these experiences are individual, they start to, excuse that and tell me their coincidences, coincidence, those that have been piling up for 26 years. which top is who calls to help? i'll try to do it. it's so awesome. miss julie, you're always talking about racism, but you yourself have made it a deputy speaker that we think and i think boston, what does that have to do with the fact that at this very moment to pull someone somewhere is probably having problems with integration authorities are being racially abused on the street, my heart, the cause of the slightest bit of this class and it's, it's a tool that is pretending that these issues are all fixed just because you have some individual figurehead is very problematic. so putting tomatoes today, one 5th of all germans have migration backgrounds. i mean, not until they encourages minorities to become politically active. the escape of
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the heart of the issue is the question of who's allowed to be part of society. and what does it actually mean to be german? so in the words of, i feel german poet, my young i, who instead of asking questions simply states or is that i will still be african line even if you want me to be german. and i will be german, even if my blacklist does not suit you, so that i will go get another step further to the very edge where my sisters and brothers stand before our freedom begins, is that i will go yet another step further and another. i will return when i want, how i want borderless and brazen. thank you. the, the 3rd and 4th generations of an afro german family have been on demarco's mother. beryl was born in good dance in what is now poland, where the families,
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european chapter began. even now at 82 years old. she's still sometimes confronted with questions about her routes. yeah. where are you from or do you speak german? what are you doing here any way? well, what do you then say? i'm john. good. it's $10.00. ship is one. i like the black engine and the descendants of monday, and indeed show that this was never a contradiction in terms of being under michael's daughter currently in london is now the 5th generation of the deep family. it's their history and it's german history. the habit of who does have the feeling that we'll be seeing more progress going forward than we
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did in the past. the city off of the for gone, just slow, but this, we're not going to let this read kind of woman that's going to be in way. he has to be a 1000 or then there's no changing that about what kind of income the so me becoming a single man is redcoat acting. very pollution. and so, so we in all of the do the full spaces, work hard costs are and we'll use the multi sound stuff because modern spiritual
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