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this morning listening to the panelists presenting on "BLACK LIVES MATTER: A TRANSATLANTIC DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MOVEMENT IN THE GERMAN CONTEXT" https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/spr/eng/top/tte/vtours/21915931.html
@tnflorvil next panelist, also check out her book "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/46ert7cs9780252043512.html
Diana Arce: take this information and use it. Make demands. We need to move from awareness to action. https://www.tearthisdown.com/en/
Diana Arce: "You can't say 'Black lives matter' and then let people drown in the Mediterranean"
Anna Yeboah and Diana Arce talk about the problematic term "Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund," how it is symptomatic for the challenges in talking about POC in Germany. You would not talk about a white person with "Migrationshintergrund"
F. Angelo Camufingo: it's so difficult to get people to examine their views and where knowledge comes from. Whiteness is part of the curriculum and it's a closed cycle. Who do we read? Who do we cite? Who do we work with? What knowledge do we acknowledge?
What can we do beyond protest & attend talks? Angelo Camufingo: use your voice, use your privilege. Call out co-workers, family, friends. Share your knowledge. Lead them into the work. Donate. Write letters to represenatives. Vote. Change your curricula. The least you can do.
@tnflorvil Because post-Holocaust Germany sees itself as anti-racist, there are barriers to dealing with racism. This self-image as a liberal and progressive country makes it difficult to talk about the real and ongoing problems of racial discrimination
YES. Such an important critique by Angelo Camufingo: Germany has moved from pluriculturalism to multiculturalism, to interculturalism, but still always about "us" and "the others". @DDGCtweets
Diana Arce reminds us BLM in Berlin has been organizing for years under radical, queer feminist values. There is a long tradition of Black radicalism in Germany. See Berlin Postkolonial and also check out "Artists without a cause" https://artistswac.org/
Melanie Bey: colonialism is not present enough in the curriculum. Or Black history. Mentions initiative: https://www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org/
