Check out what what was waiting for me at the place where I got invited to read from my book on everyday racism in Germany. In the town of Fulda, at the University Café. Yeah. [Achtung; picture contains violence]
Not to mention there’s a whole chapter on that bullshit in my book and I’m chair of a media watchdog that’s been running an entire campaign about those colonial racist white supremacy items, for years.
The (white) student who organised the “festival contre le racism” (‘festival against racism’) actually didn’t see what was wrong.
I pointed it out to her and then just left.
[...] A recent ‘scandal’ in the German blogosphere has lead to a minor shitstorm among the social media-savvy networkers. It was triggered by a rather sad event, the collision of well-intentioned activism (the organisation of an anti-racist festival at a university) and baffling ignorance. You can read about the highlight, or rather lowlight, of the story here. [...]