Fighting Racism Workshop

Tag: #RacismInGermany

  • Some People Never Change

    After over 15 months of watching a genocide in Gaza.

    I then think about all the people that do not seem to be bothered by any of it.

    I think about racists who still proudly say they are nazis, like a bald-headed security guard that works at a store I recently shopped at. This skin head looking jerk, was harassing a young man of Arican descent today, accusing him of stealing. The young man got very angry, and I could understand why. He has probably experienced as much racism as I have living here in Germany.

    In the end like I suspected the young man did not steal anything but he was still upset. He called the bald-headed security guard a nazi, and the man started saying yes, I am a nazi. Then he started pushing the young man. I started filming and some lady got in my face how in Germany you cannot film, but they sure can push BIPOC people right? She didn’t speak out about that.

    I told the security guard not to be pushing the young man. He then got in my face. Luckily for both of us, he did not push me, because I probably would have defended myself immediately and gotten myself in problems with the law.

  • Unjust World

    I hurts me to see, people of African descent, getting mistreated in Europe. I find that so sad. I think about how rich the African continent is and I wonder to myself, “imagine if the African continent could truly kick off all the colonial shackles and unite.”

    I thought about how if Africa united then they could truly provide for their people, and give their people, the life they deserve. What a beautiful thing that would be.

    I have seen my people also mistreated in the racist United States my whole life. I watch videos of I.C.E. agents targetting brown people, and it seems they take great pleasure tackling people on city streets for the crime of being brown.

    They seem to have no quarrel, separating families, and causing irreperable trauma on children. They must truly enjoy terrorizing people, to the point where people are afraid to go outside. They must enjoy destroying brown lives. I wonder if they do not see that those people they terrorize are natives of the Americas, unlike the people that order the raids, including that racist, living in the white house.

  • A History that Continues

    Today I took the train to Fürstenberg and visited Ravensbrück, a former nazi concentration camp. The camp opened in 1939 and was mostly for female prisoners. Many children were also born in the camp and very few survived.

    The camp visit really upset me. Seeing the ovens and the narrow pathway that camp guards used to make prisoners walk down, and then shoot them in the back of the neck, really bothered me.
    All day I was thinking to myself about Donald Trump, and how he and his speechwriter Stephen Miller have dehumanized my people. I thought about Elon Musk and his “nazi salute” at the presidential inauguration, and how he is promoting and encouraging right wing parties, making life more dangerous for BIPOC.


    I also thought about all the other racists on Trumps cabinet. this all really upset me. I thought about how the United States with their horrible, genocidal history, now just chooses not to teach the evil they have done, and tries to punish the teachers for doing their job.

    As if the day wasn’t mentally and emotionally hard enough, on my way home I received a few dirty looks, and even was called a derogatory term by some teenagers, and almost got in a fight with another man before boarding my train. I guess somethings never change.

  • Still No Shame

    I heard about a little BIPOC girl that cried yesterday because she was scared about the rise of the right-wing party here in Germany after the recent elections, and what it could mean, knowing these people’s history. Some of these people, especially these racist men, who constantly give you dirty looks and then quickly want to call the police at any sign of trouble, truly have no shame.

    Hearing this story only angered me more than I already am. I will never forgive these people for all they have put me through in 13 years of living here. I wanted to start a Project to fight racism, but you see its almost 532 years of the same, and the arrogance of some of these people really bothers me. They show no shame. You tell them their history, and they will act like they don’t know, but reality is they could care less. There are several genocides going on at the moment, and people here seem more interested in their Euro Cup. 

    For the people that are allies, for the good white people (The John Brown’s or Viola Liuzzo’s types) that do fight injustice and go to protests and wish to fight for a more equal and just world, please continue fighting! Please continue to listen to people that are dealing with racial traumas and are suffering, please and if needed be “That Shoulder” but please do not start the racial gaslighting because then you are only hurting the person even more. JUST LISTEN!

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