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audra trower williams
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posted 22 June 2005 07:44 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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The event is intended to give residents in the town of Augsburg in south Germany, a taste of Africa with craft sellers, drummers, story tellers, music groups and food from around Africa.

But campaigners, including representative of Germany's black community and academics, say setting it in the town's zoo is racist.

"People are upset by the idea of placing [the festival] in a zoo between the baboons and the zebras," said Noah So, who founded Der Braune Mob - an organisation that monitors race issues in the German media.


Seriously?


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'lance
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posted 22 June 2005 07:47 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's like the church in a small Manitoba town that recently raised funds to send young people on a mission to Africa by holding... a slave auction.

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Michelle
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posted 22 June 2005 08:15 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh man! What was that church thinking??

I remember in high school it was a tradition on grade 9 day to auction off senior "slaves" to grade nine students for "Slave Day". I don't know whether they have that anymore. There wasn't a race connotation to it, probably because the most black kids we ever had in the school population while I was there were maybe two or three (and I'm positive that there was at least one year while I was going there that we didn't have any). But really, it's inexcusable to have a "slave auction" as a fund raiser for a TRIP TO AFRICA. Good god. I think even my old school would have known better than that, as little consciousness of race (and progressive in general) issues as there was there.


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