I have to say quite honestly: As a German, I have never seen a black German politician.
I don’t care about any politicians skin. I care about politics.
Is this woman a good politician? Maybe. Possibly not. If her party wouldn’t promote its members by merit of their gender and race, I would doubt her abilities less.
Germans are majority white, don’t get me wrong, this is a step in the right direction, but this reporting seems like virtue signalling, if she deserves to be in the bundestag, despite all the systemic racism, despite her skin colour and background, despite her political leanings, then all power to her and she deserves it. She should be looked at as an individual and not her attribute i.e., her race/background etc.
And if she helps in removing/reducing racism, then more power to her again. Hope that other political opponents don’t obstruct her works.
😱😱 what’s next ??? A woman as chancellor ?
What has her color have to do with anything. If anything these kind of news promote the different races over others.
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I cannot believe that the first ever black woman is a member of the bundestag
Y’all so butthurt lmao
I don’t know and i don’t care how she got there. The important thing is that she is there because of what she can do and not because of her color or sexuality.
If she is good that good luck to her,hope she does good things, but putting out titles like this undermines what she can actually do and just shows people “looks at us we are so progressive we just elected the first black person”
Ok, so what? Big whoop.
As long as they do their job right, I couldn’t give less of a damn if they are Black, Chinese, White, Pink Polka dotted.
This isn’t ‘Murica, where race needs to be mentioned everywhere.
I happen to know her because she lives nearby. She was a direct candidate in a Landkreis but you never would have known, as she did not campaign there at all. It was clear she’d get into parliament via her list position. Before that she was a local politician in her city, but did nothing of note there either.
She is not a bad person, quite nice to talk to actually. A invisible politician in my opinion.
She’s been riding the fact that she is the first black women in parliament up and down her social media, but it’s not like she was particularly active beforehand, so I don’t fault her for that. I would do the same.
She was the leading candidate for her local city party half a year before going national. She did a „meh“ job and, not surprisingly, didn’t lead her party in the local parliament right after results were out and her party had actually won by a slim margin. Instead she became a candidate for the Bundestag.
She a member of parliament because of how well her party did in elections, not because she has any special pull as a candidate. Her party uses her in their media work accordingly so far.
She should be voted for her political opinions not her color. All this diversity talk is inherently racist and will not bring the people together but divide them further.
This thread reads like the shit I used to hear my parents talking about in the 80’s in the UK. Germany is way behind the curve when it comes to discussing the issue of minorities in the highest offices. People talking down the idea of her being a good politician because she has been elected on the back of tokenism. Not giving her the benefit of the doubt on her merit and bizzarely asking the question whether it’s good for diversity to have a more diverse government. I even see one person arguing that she isn’t _black_ but in fact “German”, as though someone cannot be both. Well if you just call everyone German then there can never be any discrimination of any kind, ever. Kinda convenient isn’t it?
It isn’t her job to end racism FFS. She doesn’t owe anyone any more than any other member.
She ran for the green party and got in through the greens party list, which has a 50% Female quota. Since the candidates they pull from are less than 50% female, it would have been more impressive if she was a man.
The 6.2% in her district weren’t a bad result, but the 55% increase to the previous year is in line with the national 66% increase of the greens. So how much of that was up to her is debatable.
I mean it doesn’t look like she hurt the party, so congrats I guess?
But this OMG she’s black and a women is incredibly American.
Can’t wait to someday see the first black in the afd
Damn, i thought we already had a couple of them already there.
And what has this to do with her skin color?? ow she is black..quick this is the most important thing ,the rest of her doesn’t matter…
Well, great? Dont see the big news here.
Whoever is best qualified should get the job/position, no matter wich skin color or gender.
This is so ridiculous…
I don’t want to know what the AFD says about her
Blanco a guter N… said three years ago a Innenminister in German TV…and you want a colored politician???
Since any recognized difference based upon race is racism. How do you put any value on diversity?
Since any recognized difference based upon race is racism. How do you put any value on diversity?
Germany is really trying hard to be America 2.0
Black German? Is that like a black Mexican? They are as rare as hens teeth! Let’s call it what it is a African immigrant or descendant
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I have to say quite honestly: As a German, I have never seen a black German politician.
I don’t care about any politicians skin. I care about politics.
Is this woman a good politician? Maybe. Possibly not. If her party wouldn’t promote its members by merit of their gender and race, I would doubt her abilities less.
Germans are majority white, don’t get me wrong, this is a step in the right direction, but this reporting seems like virtue signalling, if she deserves to be in the bundestag, despite all the systemic racism, despite her skin colour and background, despite her political leanings, then all power to her and she deserves it. She should be looked at as an individual and not her attribute i.e., her race/background etc.
And if she helps in removing/reducing racism, then more power to her again. Hope that other political opponents don’t obstruct her works.
😱😱 what’s next ??? A woman as chancellor ?
What has her color have to do with anything. If anything these kind of news promote the different races over others.
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I cannot believe that the first ever black woman is a member of the bundestag
Y’all so butthurt lmao
I don’t know and i don’t care how she got there. The important thing is that she is there because of what she can do and not because of her color or sexuality.
If she is good that good luck to her,hope she does good things, but putting out titles like this undermines what she can actually do and just shows people “looks at us we are so progressive we just elected the first black person”
Ok, so what? Big whoop.
As long as they do their job right, I couldn’t give less of a damn if they are Black, Chinese, White, Pink Polka dotted.
This isn’t ‘Murica, where race needs to be mentioned everywhere.
I happen to know her because she lives nearby. She was a direct candidate in a Landkreis but you never would have known, as she did not campaign there at all. It was clear she’d get into parliament via her list position. Before that she was a local politician in her city, but did nothing of note there either.
She is not a bad person, quite nice to talk to actually. A invisible politician in my opinion.
She’s been riding the fact that she is the first black women in parliament up and down her social media, but it’s not like she was particularly active beforehand, so I don’t fault her for that. I would do the same.
She was the leading candidate for her local city party half a year before going national. She did a „meh“ job and, not surprisingly, didn’t lead her party in the local parliament right after results were out and her party had actually won by a slim margin. Instead she became a candidate for the Bundestag.
She a member of parliament because of how well her party did in elections, not because she has any special pull as a candidate. Her party uses her in their media work accordingly so far.
She should be voted for her political opinions not her color. All this diversity talk is inherently racist and will not bring the people together but divide them further.
This thread reads like the shit I used to hear my parents talking about in the 80’s in the UK. Germany is way behind the curve when it comes to discussing the issue of minorities in the highest offices. People talking down the idea of her being a good politician because she has been elected on the back of tokenism. Not giving her the benefit of the doubt on her merit and bizzarely asking the question whether it’s good for diversity to have a more diverse government. I even see one person arguing that she isn’t _black_ but in fact “German”, as though someone cannot be both. Well if you just call everyone German then there can never be any discrimination of any kind, ever. Kinda convenient isn’t it?
It isn’t her job to end racism FFS. She doesn’t owe anyone any more than any other member.
She ran for the green party and got in through the greens party list, which has a 50% Female quota. Since the candidates they pull from are less than 50% female, it would have been more impressive if she was a man.
The 6.2% in her district weren’t a bad result, but the 55% increase to the previous year is in line with the national 66% increase of the greens. So how much of that was up to her is debatable.
I mean it doesn’t look like she hurt the party, so congrats I guess?
But this OMG she’s black and a women is incredibly American.
Can’t wait to someday see the first black in the afd
Damn, i thought we already had a couple of them already there.
And what has this to do with her skin color?? ow she is black..quick this is the most important thing ,the rest of her doesn’t matter…
Well, great? Dont see the big news here.
Whoever is best qualified should get the job/position, no matter wich skin color or gender.
This is so ridiculous…
I don’t want to know what the AFD says about her
Blanco a guter N… said three years ago a Innenminister in German TV…and you want a colored politician???
Since any recognized difference based upon race is racism. How do you put any value on diversity?
Since any recognized difference based upon race is racism. How do you put any value on diversity?
Germany is really trying hard to be America 2.0
Black German? Is that like a black Mexican? They are as rare as hens teeth! Let’s call it what it is a African immigrant or descendant