Apparently you know and well the reason was racism but i mean yeah so at times it was very difficult but. still especially with my project this band called oh the syndicate. we sort of also have a lot of like anti-racist lyrics and we re trying to challenge for example clone your lives and the german colonial history and people are willing to engage in the in the conversation not always of course you ll always have like the old guy in the corner shouting the stuff but i mean racism does persist then sent thank you so much for vincent baba bootie labo from the campaign for thank you in germany today right thank you so much for talking with us today on the w. news thank you for having me. and staying in germany the country s federation for food banks has condemned racism and discrimination that s after a food bank in essence stopped accepting new applications for food aid from anyone
Power to stop games of crisis abuse is heard in the stands but we really say referees take such action and we even saw just in the video before that two players were handed yellow cards for bringing up racism jury again so there is a lot more that football can do to combat racism are we seeing attitudes beginning to change or at least more sense of people becoming more sensitive to this topic you would hope so i mean we recently saw the take taken a campaign with colin kaepernick was highlighting justices and i think it is helping people to at least talk about the discussion and you know hopefully change the perception is out there so young expat from t w sports thanks so much. you re watching t.w. news still to come on the un s edge of racism day we meet four students here in germany who say they experienced discrimination on a daily basis plus i m joined by an antique racism activist here in the studio.
A muslim and treat me according to their racist feelings towards muslim people but still i as i mentioned earlier especially in light see where i live a lot of people saying no to racism and ogonowski themselves and the anti-racist struggle. as a musician you you tour quite a bit doing also in eastern germany i know some other musicians rip toured in eastern germany in here and they re not even black but have suffered a lot of discrimination just because they don t speak the language the way people there did that you experienced. a lot of racism in eastern germany yourself but yeah i mean especially turing s through smaller towns or even some villages. i was at times difficult i mean i ve been slept in the face in dress than for
A photon put help them organizing german classes of conniving organizing the housing so i already hear my colleagues saying but there was a huge deal of paternalism and like a save white savior complex which is true but i do see this period really sort of cracks in the racist system in germany and it begins to crumble what we need to do now is sort of combine the cracks and smash it ok so it will obviously eliminating racism completely is not a realistic goal but fighting it is certainly a worthy thing to be doing now there s an anti-racism rally scheduled for later today here in berlin the slogan for this rally translates as i confront all types of racism what can protests like that achieve well actually quite a lot i think what we need especially with the rise of right wing populism in
A problem in society as a whole i think the positive never get negative aspects of society often mirrored in football it s a very popular game very accessible and it gives a platform to these hooligan top people to spread their hateful views and it is it is an uncomfortable truth but it s something we have to live with and we saw footage in our report there from you wafers campaign no to racism is football doing enough to tackle this problem to be honest i don t think it is i think you can always do more special is the world s most popular game it has a big influence on people s lives whether we like it or not. i mean faith has said that racism levels in russian football are completely unacceptable but that didn t stop them awarding them the world cup this year so that doesn t sound like a very strong stance to me but faith has said that they are putting in measures to to fight racism in leading into the world cup they said referees will have the