Racism: “You were raised like a monkey,” said the teacher

One says that he missed the last subway because of it, others report the unfriendly tone and look of the officials. When asked whether the police do young men with dark skin more often because of this controlA 16-year-old says that because they find what they are looking for more often: “The fact that the police find more drugs in foreigners is true, of course, but it is often a pretext reason, and the controls are more unfriendly than they should be.”

20-year-old Michele traveled from Darmstadt with her mother and a white colleague, it is the first demo for the three. “I want to have a look at how things go and be a voice that points to the racism problem,” says the geriatric nurse. In addition to stereotypical sayings like “you can dance well”, she has only had a racist experience once in her life. “When our class was really loud, a teacher said to me, you were raised like a monkey,” she says. “Then I stood on the table, yelled like a monkey, tossed chairs around and shooed the teacher out of the class.”

Afterwards, all “foreign students” should have refused to be taught by this teacher, which a majority of the class did, “after two weeks the teacher left school”. In order to reappraise the experience, the class initially did anti-racism training – and subsequently the school even got an anti-racism certificate and can now call itself school against racism.

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It is the fifth demo in Frankfurt since the video of the brutal police operation in Minnesota involving the African American George Floyd died, became known. Some of the black demonstrators went through all of the protests, but they only represent about a third of the participants. Another third consists of young students, and above all schoolgirls, who came to the demo scene as part of the Fridays for Future campaigns, as some report.

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In between there are also dozens of members of the local Antifa scene who keep trying to put their battle cries “Alerta, Antifascista” or “Fuck the Police” on the demo, but this is only partially successful. One has an angular wooden stick in his backpack.

While the predominantly young demonstrators are differentiated about their negative experiences in Germany, the leaders around the alliance “be heard” strike rather shrill tones. They describe Germany as a “racist society” in which “white cops” with “racist police terrorism” can get away with it. Dark-skinned people are generally referred to as “sisters and brothers” who should stick together against “white racism”.

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A speaker in front of the police station warns the audience that one should never forget where “our ancestors” come from: “Our roots are still in Africa.” Many speakers represented at the largest anti-racism demo in Frankfurt last Saturday In front of 8000 listeners, a worldview strongly shaped by ethnic struggles, a young woman named Sarkodie even shouted from the stage: “To be pro-black does not mean to be anti-white, but it seems as if the other race is constantly trying to kill us . “

Liban Farah, who calls himself ANTIFArah on Twitter and is active at the SPD youth organization Jusos, paints a drastic picture. George Floyd “had a life similar to us in many ways, full of violence, full of injustices, full of racism. This person is closer to us in fundamental aspects than our neighbors in Germany. Watching live how a brother or sister dies makes you sick. ”

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After “26 years of dealing with racism” he remains “the realization that whites and ‘POCs’ live in different societies, they have unequal experiences, unequal Problems, unequal suffering, unequal opportunities. “” POCs “stands for” People of Color “. The term consists of the English abbreviation for “colored people” and is currently considered particularly non-racist in cultural studies circles.

The moderator Enisa Amani on Römerberg cheers for ethnic quotas in all areas of society: “Why am I not exactly represented? In every advertisement, in every film, in every fucking political panel? ”It is not enough that companies increasingly portray ethnic minorities for their advertising.

“What I want is that black POCs, POCs, BIPOCs are everywhere on the CEO floors. Above! Not on the front of advertising. On top of that! ”Where today“ ten old white men talk about the fact that it would be smart to put a black man on advertising ”, this should in future be“ reversed ”.

SPD Mayor Peter Feldmann does not mention the shrill speeches in his speech afterwards.

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