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From C / O Berin's Silvia Kosi exhibition

[africanglobe]

AFRICANGLOBE – The BBC recently attempted to review a film on historical racism against Africans and their descendants in Germany. Being Black in Nazi Germany? The question the BBC shies away from reviewing is simply this: How different could it be from being Black in Nazi America? Are the Germans not the majority ethnicity also in America? And did not America commit worse crimes against humanity within their own borders? How is it so difficult to see the obvious?

https://www.africanglobe.net/africa/germans-hide-nazis-jews-shroud-genocides-blacks/

[askhistorians]

Above: An Afro-German boy from the Rhineland.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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Gustav Sabac el Cher, Prussian military musician for the German Army, 1908.

[racialicious]

Dear Editors, You’re in luck that I’m at least writing this letter to you in my best handwriting because I am very angry at you. Why should it not be prohibited to write ‘Neger’ in children’s books? One has to be able to put oneself in somebody else’s shoes. Because my father is Senegalese, and he is a very dark shade of brown; I am café-au-lait brown. Just imagine if you were Afro-German and lived in Germany. You’re a newspaper reader and unsuspectingly buy the ZEIT of January 17th 2013. Suddenly, you note the article ‘The Little Witch Hunt.’ This is when you read that the word ‘Neger’ is supposed to be deleted from children’s books, and that this would allegedly spoil the children’s books. I find it totally shit that this word should remain in children’s books if it were up to you. You cannot imagine how I feel when I have to read or hear that word. It is simply very, very terrible. My father is not a ‘Neger’ [lightning bolt sign] nor am I. This is also true for all other Africans. Right. That was my opinion. This word should be deleted from children’s books. Yours, Ishema Kane, 9 1/2 years old P.S.: You’re welcome to send me a response. [more lightning bolt signs]

--9 1/2-year-old Ishema Kane schooling the editors of the German newspaper ZEIT on their defense of the German equivalent of the n-word in children's books. (via stoptalk)

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Afro-Germans (German: Afrodeutsche), African-Germans or Black Germans are defined as members of the Black African community and diaspora in Germany.

Cities such as Hamburg and Berlin, centers of occupation forces in the postwar years as well as more recent immigration, have substantial Black communities, with a high percentage of ethnically mixed families.  With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Munich, or Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. As of 2005, there were approximately 500,000 Afro-Germans in a nation of 80 million. This number is difficult to estimate because the German census does not use race as a category, following the genocide committed during World War II under the "German racial ideology." Up to 70.000 (2% of the population) people of Black African origin live in Berlin.

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