03.07.2020
Racism concerns us all. Anti-racism too.
Blog article by Sandra Dürr and Sheena Anderson
Crises can be like a magnifying glass for social grievances and structural injustice in societies. This is also the case with COVID-19: Racism towards people read as Asian increased, in Brazil, Great Britain and the USA the COVID-19 induced endangerment and death rate of PoC and black people is disproportionately high, and also the conditions under which foreign workers work in the German food production, especially meat production, must be read through a racism-sensitive lens. And these are only three well-known examples. We have to talk about racism - not once again, but again and again. After the assassination of George Floyd during a police operation and the numerous protests of the Black Lives Matter movement far beyond the borders of the USA, the debate about anti-black racism is also increasing in Germany. Here are some thoughts on this.