Call for action KKK/blackface at Swakopmund Karnival
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selma
11 years ago
Having worked at AZ I know for sure that any printed material hase be be proof read and given the okay.Meaning this went through the hands of couple people and no one had the sense to say; hey wait a minute this might be offensive to some people??
So disgusted, Shame on you Allgemeine Zeitung!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Not at all acceptable in today's Namibia
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Max Weylandt
11 years ago
This is shameful and outrageous. It baffles me that in 2015 people can still think it's fun to wear blackface -- and that a newspaper calls KKK costumes "innovative" when they are one of the oldest racist tropes around, shows a complete lack of understanding of what conduct is appropriate.
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Tanya Weimers
11 years ago
Absolutely disgraceful. These kids might be in oblivion, but their parents ignorant ones-who allow them to leave the house wearing their "imaginative" costumes. Ashamed and embarrassed, to be part of a society where ignorance is widely accepted, and even celebrated. Congratulations, kids and AZ, you have successfully condoned racial segregation in a society already struggling with cohesion.
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Dale hill
11 years ago
Shame on all involved in organising the event.
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Werner Tjipueja
11 years ago
We demand for an immediate deportation of the editor of that newspaper! We have just established that he was "born and trained" in Germany and emigrated to work in Namibia.
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Lizelle Kotze
11 years ago
Sick minds makes sick people! What are they celebrating? Death of hundreds of thousands of human beings??
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chris kalumbu
11 years ago
So the whote community must not think we gonna be sit around and be their toys or cotton pickers anymore
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iyambo ipinge
11 years ago
the klu klux clowns should be done away with
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Augustinus Poroto
11 years ago
This is disgusting and the fact that they think this was funny as they say absolutely just angers me
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gerold husselmann
11 years ago
This should not be tolerated. Or should we also start hating. Clearly they are stel racist and disgust us. This behavior does not show other wise. They should celebrate there racist acts somewhere els and not here in the land of the free.
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gerold husselmann
11 years ago
This should not be tolerated. Or should we also start hating. Clearly they are stel racist and disgust us. This behavior does not show other wise. They should celebrate there racist acts somewhere els and not here in the land of the free.
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gerold husselmann
11 years ago
This should not be tolerated. Or should we also start hating. Clearly they are stel racist and disgust us. This behavior does not show other wise. They should celebrate there racist acts somewhere els and not here in the land of the free.
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Aedin Mohrmann
11 years ago
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These costumes were in very bad taste. I do not understand how the individuals though this would even be okay, how the even organisers allowed them entrance and how the newspaper even let those photo's be published. The whole story is unacceptable and amends must be made.
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Z. Kameeta
11 years ago
Let us build a one Nation in a one Namibia, for the sake of peace today and a joyous future for our children, grandchildren and the generations still to be born.
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Yohba Mosez
11 years ago
The Algemeine Zeitung should apologize immediately. This is like dressing up looking like Adolf Hitler. Das ist keine Deutcshe Südwest Afrika mehr. Some things should change in Namibia. Swakopmund should be renamed, the Windhoek Deutsche Schüle should also be renamed. Its about time.
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paulus fillepus
11 years ago
i have so many things to say about what you germans have done to people in the world and hereros here at home. to think that you perhaps have dessency. No word's! !!!!
Having worked at AZ I know for sure that any printed material hase be be proof read and given the okay.Meaning this went through the hands of couple people and no one had the sense to say; hey wait a minute this might be offensive to some people?? So disgusted, Shame on you Allgemeine Zeitung!
Not at all acceptable in today's Namibia
This is shameful and outrageous. It baffles me that in 2015 people can still think it's fun to wear blackface -- and that a newspaper calls KKK costumes "innovative" when they are one of the oldest racist tropes around, shows a complete lack of understanding of what conduct is appropriate.
Absolutely disgraceful. These kids might be in oblivion, but their parents ignorant ones-who allow them to leave the house wearing their "imaginative" costumes. Ashamed and embarrassed, to be part of a society where ignorance is widely accepted, and even celebrated. Congratulations, kids and AZ, you have successfully condoned racial segregation in a society already struggling with cohesion.
Shame on all involved in organising the event.
We demand for an immediate deportation of the editor of that newspaper! We have just established that he was "born and trained" in Germany and emigrated to work in Namibia.
Sick minds makes sick people! What are they celebrating? Death of hundreds of thousands of human beings??
So the whote community must not think we gonna be sit around and be their toys or cotton pickers anymore
the klu klux clowns should be done away with
This is disgusting and the fact that they think this was funny as they say absolutely just angers me
This should not be tolerated. Or should we also start hating. Clearly they are stel racist and disgust us. This behavior does not show other wise. They should celebrate there racist acts somewhere els and not here in the land of the free.
This should not be tolerated. Or should we also start hating. Clearly they are stel racist and disgust us. This behavior does not show other wise. They should celebrate there racist acts somewhere els and not here in the land of the free.
This should not be tolerated. Or should we also start hating. Clearly they are stel racist and disgust us. This behavior does not show other wise. They should celebrate there racist acts somewhere els and not here in the land of the free.
These costumes were in very bad taste. I do not understand how the individuals though this would even be okay, how the even organisers allowed them entrance and how the newspaper even let those photo's be published. The whole story is unacceptable and amends must be made.
Let us build a one Nation in a one Namibia, for the sake of peace today and a joyous future for our children, grandchildren and the generations still to be born.
The Algemeine Zeitung should apologize immediately. This is like dressing up looking like Adolf Hitler. Das ist keine Deutcshe Südwest Afrika mehr. Some things should change in Namibia. Swakopmund should be renamed, the Windhoek Deutsche Schüle should also be renamed. Its about time.
i have so many things to say about what you germans have done to people in the world and hereros here at home. to think that you perhaps have dessency. No word's! !!!!
Such a pity!
This is unacceptable.!!!!!
Say no to racism