Anne Will incorrectly weights her talk show about the protests against US President Trump.
- The topic of the program is the US protests against racism
- Anne Will's guests are Norbert Röttgen , Cem Özdemir , Alice Hasters , Christoph von Marschall , Samira El Ouassil and Stefan Simons
- It's about the USA - a look at Germany wouldn't have hurt
Protests against police violence and racism - how much responsibility does President Donald Trump have for the escalation? ”Was the subject of Anne Will on Sunday evening. Honestly: Does anyone care whether Trump weighs five or fifty grams? (Kilo?) "Responsibility bears"? In the meantime, every reasonably enlightened person here knows that Donald Trump is a notorious liar, agitator and racist. That he is dividing his country, as his ex-Secretary of Defense James Mattis recently certified. That nothing and nobody cares about him except his ego and that he is ready to go over dead bodies for it.
With Anne Will nothing new about Donald Trump
The US President is being debated on German television. Was there any new knowledge? Barely. "He is beating around," knew Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. Have we thought anyway. He "doesn't actually have the majority of the voters," said Christoph von Marschall of the Berlin "Tagesspiegel". Is known. After all, the fact that he is the "anti-president of the United States" was a nice bon mot by Spiegel columnist Samira El Ouassil.
She tried to outline the origin and history of racism in the United States and came closer to the appropriate topic, which the author Alice Hasters ("What white people don't want to hear about racism - but should know") then put it more precisely. She was the only representative of the People of Color in this round. She believes that the " Black Lives Matter " movement has what it takes to make real change because the attention is worldwide and therefore much greater than before.
Anne Will made the same mistake as Sandra Maischberger
The movement was already big in 2016, but there were "derailments", von Marshal explained, and they were ultimately responsible for Trump's victory, an adventurous interpretation - as if it weren't for the right-wing extremists (such as the broadcaster) Fox News). And fittingly, the player at the beginning of the program also presented the peaceful protests and some looting in almost the same ratio - a bad faux pas by the editors. Sandra Maischberger had similarly done it at her unspeakable last moderation. Serious journalism looks different.
That came from Stefan Simons, correspondent of Deutsche Welle, switched on live from Washington DC. When he was shot at by police officers himself, he described the militarization of the US police and was now able to prove Trump's responsibility for the increasing police violence. In one week alone, there were 279 robbery raids on journalists. The statement is correct that racism is not getting worse, but it is now being filmed. The murder of George Floyd (in front of the cameras running) generated a lot of anger. Alice Hasters confirmed: If Trump was re-elected in November, many African Americans should see this as a signal that their lives simply don't count. One player confirmed: more than twice as many blacks are killed by police officers as white people.
Cem Özdemir sums up the problem
Christoph von Marschall then demonstrated the typically ignorant white point of view: there is "significantly more crime" in the black milieu - but had to be instructed by Alice Hasters that it was a consequence of racism and the disadvantaged living conditions. Attempts to free themselves from the situation would always be destroyed. Green politician Cem Özdemir summed it up: It was not a black problem, but a white one: "The whites have to deal with their racism".
Look in time.
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This finally made the connection to the topic that is more important for German society (and that the program should have been more likely to negotiate). "Discussing when it will be over and not whether the problem even exists - that would be a German racism debate. One that deserves this name, ”the journalist Christoph Bangel recently wrote on“ Zeit online ”. And even Chancellor Angela Merkel had said with reference to rampant racism: "We have our hands full".
Anne Will: The editorial team has the wrong focus
Perhaps that should have taken Anne Will's editors to heart instead of dedicating most of the show to a would-be dictator. Because there are more than enough occasions. There was such a "white noise", Samira El Ouassil formulated and reminded of the murders of Halle and Hanau, but also mentioned an MDR talk show in which whites discussed whether the "N-word" should be used. It is as bad as if you give women the word that starts with F, but rhymes with "vomit" ...
CDU man Norbert Röttgen also confirmed: "We have racism", and these are by no means isolated cases. But then he really wanted to see a difference from the United States. There is a broad consensus here and "we have the will to make progress": the word on Sunday evening. Alice Hasters saw an institutional system of racism in the police force and referred to unsatisfactorily solved cases. Samira El Ouassil recalled the case of Oury Jalloh, who is said to have been tied up in a cell, without a lighter and on a fireproof mattress - a police scandal that has been crying out for clarification for years.
And for the recently known cases of right-wing extremists in the police and armed forces, the journalist offered the obvious explanation that certain milieus were just attracted to authoritarian structures. The consensus conjured up by Röttgen, according to Özdemir, did not exist at the 1992 arson attacks in Rostock Lichtenhagen. It only existed since the murder of Walter Lübcke: "This consensus was written with blood."
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Anne Will, ARD, from Sunday, June 7, 9:45 p.m. To the broadcast in the media library.
