African American soldier in Germany

Madeleine said:
Former Swedish Prime Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/swedish-minister-of-culture-slammed-for-racist-797906
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The first is in Holland though, right? I think in Europe we have not been so sensitised about “black-facing” (there isn’t even a term or word for it in my language). We have some catching up to do there.
That cake is disgusting![/QUOTE]

It says Black Pete is a swedish thing and a dutch Holiday. That is all the information I got from international sites.
 
Reverie said:
The first is in Holland though, right? I think in Europe we have not been so sensitised about “black-facing” (there isn’t even a term or word for it in my language). We have some catching up to do there.
That cake is disgusting!
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Still is disgusting.
 
Madeleine said:

I’m glad to hear this guy is having a good time.
That being said we are no society of saints . However, if there’s resentment nowadays it’s more towards other immigrant groups that have caused trouble in recent years, not black people. Especially not Americans. American soldiers have a long history in Germany and they are well accepted (especially with women;)). So believe him when he says we eat the chocolate in the ice cream first.
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Those German are so uberdumm to think a Black-American soldier looks like a African immigrant.
 
darkcurry said:
You never heard of Black Pete?

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"Controversial sidekick of the Dutch Saint Nicholas, Black Pete..."

http://www.africanews.com/2016/11/1...stokes-anti-racism-protest-police-arrest-100/


Former Swedish Prime Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/swedish-minister-of-culture-slammed-for-racist-797906
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The Black Pete thing was mentioned years ago on these threads. I'm still waiting to see a photo of a brother in Black Pete gear with two hot Dutch women on each arm.
 
Madeleine said:
Anyway, the video is about his experience in this day and age. He talks about people from all over the world settling here. I think he might be living in Berlin, from the picture. Berlin is the biggest most diverse city in Germany. It’d be different if he lived in a little village in Bavaria. People would hopefully still be nice, but he might feel more like an outsider.
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There are many books about Black-Americans in Germany. I will bring titles later today.
 
Madeleine said:

I’m glad to hear this guy is having a good time.
That being said we are no society of saints . However, if there’s resentment nowadays it’s more towards other immigrant groups that have caused trouble in recent years, not black people. Especially not Americans. American soldiers have a long history in Germany and they are well accepted (especially with women;)). So believe him when he says we eat the chocolate in the ice cream first.
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The books I had mentioned:Germans and African-Americans:Two Centuries of Exchange by Larry A.Greene and A Breath of Freedom by Maria Hohn.
 
Madeleine said:
That would mean that one could never return or else be arrested, right?
It’d have been an option anyway. American soldiers left a lot of children behind, some never had contact with their father.
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Maybe. But If there was a family back in the US, I guess one would have to "man up". In the case of the movie, he was a young man with just his immediate family back home. Even though he was dodging bullets and almost killed he was still treated like a hero after the war abroad. He even had a European woman whom later he finds out is pregnant with his child. He goes back home to the US where he had to ride on the back of the bus, gets called the n-word and even can't look a white man who wasn't even fighting in the war, in the eye. To me the decision wouldn't be an easy one but I would've started my life with the more satisfying one which he ended up doing.
 
Mrmike757 said:
Maybe. But If there was a family back in the US, I guess one would have to "man up". In the case of the movie, he was a young man with just his immediate family back home. Even though he was dodging bullets and almost killed he was still treated like a hero after the war abroad. He even had a European woman whom later he finds out is pregnant with his child. He goes back home to the US where he had to ride on the back of the bus, gets called the n-word and even can't look a white man who wasn't even fighting in the war, in the eye. To me the decision wouldn't be an easy one but I would've started my life with the more satisfying one which he ended up doing.
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You hit it on the head.
 
This week in Europe, we have many ceremonies to mark the end of World War 1
And of course the part played by thousands of colonial troops in various European armies.
This really wasthe commencement of BM with European women. Previously it was only WM with BW in the distance ofthe colonies.
The traumas of the war made people less critical of these relationships.
Even during the war, soldiers had Rest and Recreation.
 
sarah23 said:
This week in Europe, we have many ceremonies to mark the end of World War 1
And of course the part played by thousands of colonial troops in various European armies.
This really wasthe commencement of BM with European women. Previously it was only WM with BW in the distance ofthe colonies.
The traumas of the war made people less critical of these relationships.
Even during the war, soldiers had Rest and Recreation.
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A friends father in England is the result of one of those relationships. The fun thing is they were actually always in touch with the grandfather in the city of Savannah until the grandfather died in 1997. It was racism that created division and the reason why they could not stay together. He wasn't allowed to stay in England after the war nor bring his girlfriend and child over to the USA.

It is actually quite sick when it is talk about love and not just some people having fun.
 
In France too, after the war, these african soldiers had to return to their country. No choice.
And in the colonies, the authorities did not want to see black men bringing back white women.
 
sarah23 said:
In France too, after the war, these african soldiers had to return to their country. No choice.
And in the colonies, the authorities did not want to see black men bringing back white women.
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In France the American Black soldier can't bring his French wife to the South. Only in places where its allowed in the US. After WWI some went to France to stay.
 
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