It sounds so simple: not a racist to be. It should be enough that a couple of things to understand: that one is appalled by the death of George Floyd and the anger of the protesters understand. You can’t believe how disproportionately crass, the black population in America under the impact of the Corona-crisis suffering, and never to the idea would come from, their skin color is to blame, that they are ill more often than the average of the Coronavirus. That deleted the N-word from his vocabulary, and the thought that someone had a particularly good dancer, because his so-called roots are in Africa. That you do not touch black women out of curiosity enquired of in the hair, or out of fear of the side of the road changes when you meet at night, a black man. That you believe maybe even to know most of it already, “what they don’t want to listen to white people about racism, but should know”, to say it with the title of the book by the journalist Alice Hasters.
Harald Staun
editor in the Feuilleton section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Berlin.
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no, says the African-American historian and best-selling author Ibram X. Kendi, one of the loudest and angriest voices in the current debate on racism: Possibly, but you are still a racist. Racism is a poison, against which not even the Black are immune, if you had done it yourself, Barack Obama, to the black self-responsibility appeal, and the Illusion promoted, to the structural inequality with hard work to escape. Also Kendi himself, he says, it was, as he made as a young man, other black youths for their lack of education is responsible. The opposite of racism, on this formula, he puts it in his book “How to be an Antiracist,” not be racist. But anti-racist. Those who believe that he could behave in the question is neutral, will not change anything to the conditions, which were based on centuries of racist policy.
What can we do against racism
not to keep anyone Who wants to be a racist to be a good Anti, could begin to be non-racist. In addition, the proposals in Kendis book, however, remain stunningly obvious: He advises to raise awareness of racial inequalities and to open up for other minorities, to support anti-racist actions, or in his own environment, the profession or the community, to push for changes. And says very little about the complicated issues on the minds of those people who consider themselves so much for not racist. It’s not racist to talk with Black about her skin color? Or discriminatory, you to address? Should you? as a White at all of the “Black” talk, POC, PBOC, or BIPOC Or you may insist that there are “Black”? Should you talk about it as a white German with German PBOC about the Situation of Black in the United States, because they have a better awareness of their discrimination? Or you would have communities of them in a large black community, as if nothing mattered its difference?
