Author
|
Topic: Germany puts Africans in a zoo
|
audra trower williams
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 2
|
posted 22 June 2005 07:44 PM
quote: 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?
From: And I'm a look you in the eye for every bar of the chorus | Registered: Apr 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|