A Twitter user shared a brief conversation he had with his friend who happened to stay in Germany and according to him, racism in Germany is worse than we all can imagine. The user identified as @allarick3 made a thread deeply explaining his experience as a black man living in Germany and how he constantly faces racial abuse. Read his thread below;
“Racism in Europe is so terrifying. Was chatting to a Ghanaian guy living in Germany on the train the other day. He said one day during a storm a tree on his street fell and blocked the pavement. He decided to pick it up and move it out of the way so people could pass... He then spotted an elderly white woman looking out through a window in her flat. She was shaking her head. After he's done clearing the pavement of tree debris he's ready to go home. Next thing he knows, German police arrive saying they've had reports of a suspicious-looking man”.
“The principal of his son's school called him in because his son was 'unruly'. 'He's five years old and I am raising him to stick up for himself and be proud' he said. Otherwise, he will get bullied forever. His son is the only black kid in the school. He said 'Sometimes the racism is so bad that I know I have to pack my bags and go back to Ghana. I'll forever be a black man in a white country that doesn't want me. At work, he has to stop himself from going over to a corner and start crying after yet another racist incident. He has a university degree from Ghana, is a native speaker of English and French, and learned German, Spanish, and Italian from working all over Europe. He then showed me his scars from acid burns all over his arms from his dangerous manual job in Germany”.
“When we're bombarded with claims of 'woke nonsense' every day it's useful to remember the stories of actual people who have to endure the reality of racism that the media and right-wing politicians pretend is made up by radical academics. Yet it's their denial that's made up”.
His narration derived a lot of comments and a few of them are highlighted below;
@BSsemugenze•
“I am currently in Debrecen, Hungary as I was
standing at the traffic lights on some street, a car
stopped, a guy got a spray and sprayed fluid on
me while abusing and spitting at me. Sad”.
@jackaloh •
“l once boarded a bus in a city in Germany and went to sit next to a white man in the back seat, the guy screamed so hard against me chanting some words in German that I couldn't understand. I quickly moved away from him and held my peace assuming nothing had happened”.
@SadamOmukimbir1 •
“Just the way some of us treat albinos is the same
way we are treated by the whites. We should treat
well these people in an inclusive society”.
@Mkkhool•
“Reading this story, South Africa might as well be in
Europe given the numerous incidences of racism
against the Natives of the land by the minority
European settler's in this country in the South of
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