Through history Black people have been persecuted simply because their skin happens to be a different color than that of the majority. That majority comes in all forms and sizes, but the one thing they all hold in common is that their skin is pale, they lack the melamine that their dark counterparts happen to be full of. This persecution happened in Africa, the U.S., and even in Germany. However, in Germany the persecution of Black people was ironic, it was only those that were essentially Black German citizens that the German people saw as their subordinate. Through images, rap artists, poets, and a report by the German government, it will be clear that if you were a Black German you were inferior, but if you were an American Black man you
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It is almost as if the German people do not realize that theses Black Germans grew up beside them. In the same neighborhood, eating the same food, speaking the same language. It is more than just racism, it is dehumanization, everyone should have the right to say they came from somewhere. By taking that away from the Black Germans is worse because they may have ancestry in African but they are not from there either so they become people without a home. No one should have to go through that. One way that Black German do resemble Black American is that they conform to the majority social rules. El-Tayeb says in her book, “they are the minority generally perceived as being most “un-German” (61). Sometime Black Americans do things their way which is not always met with applause by the White majority of the U.S. However, when a Black American such as in the Toxi movie comes to Germany they are revered. In the movie Toxi’s father come and gets his daughter Toxi. In a picture of the scene the whole family surrounds Toxi’s father, gazing at him. They had never seen a man in cloths such as his and he happens to tower over them all. There is unbelief on their eyes because they realize he is their equal and might even be their superior. He is a Black man from America and immediate he gives respect. Something that a Black German would not
It is almost as if the German people do not realize that theses Black Germans grew up beside them. In the same neighborhood, eating the same food, speaking the same language. It is more than just racism, it is dehumanization, everyone should have the right to say they came from somewhere. By taking that away from the Black Germans is worse because they may have ancestry in African but they are not from there either so they become people without a home. No one should have to go through that. One way that Black German do resemble Black American is that they conform to the majority social rules. El-Tayeb says in her book, “they are the minority generally perceived as being most “un-German” (61). Sometime Black Americans do things their way which is not always met with applause by the White majority of the U.S. However, when a Black American such as in the Toxi movie comes to Germany they are revered. In the movie Toxi’s father come and gets his daughter Toxi. In a picture of the scene the whole family surrounds Toxi’s father, gazing at him. They had never seen a man in cloths such as his and he happens to tower over them all. There is unbelief on their eyes because they realize he is their equal and might even be their superior. He is a Black man from America and immediate he gives respect. Something that a Black German would not