ARD talk show by Anne Will: Protests take place worldwide as a result of the tragic death of George Floyd. US President Donald Trump could almost be escalating in the election campaign.
- In "Anne Will" it was about the events surrounding the death of George Floyd - and racism .
- The behavior of the events at US Donald Trump played a major role in the TV talk .
- Program title: "Protests against police violence and racism - how much responsibility does President Trump have ?"
- ARD guests : Alice Hasters, Samira El Ouassil, Norbert Röttgen, Cem Özdemir, Christoph von Marschall and Stefan Simons, who joined in from Washington.
The incomprehensible crime of Minneapolis, when the late American George Floyd was harassed by four police officers lying on the ground, has brought the subject of police violence and racism to the attention of the whole world. In many countries, people take to the streets to stand up for the rights of colored people.
"Black lives matter" is also chanted in demonstrations in Germany. While the protests in Germany are relatively peaceful, the situation is different in the United States. The TV talk on "Anne Will" on June 7 was related to the US: It was not just about racism, but rather about the context in which US President Donald Trump wanted to take advantage of the unrest among the people for his purposes. Program title: "Protests against police violence and racism - how much responsibility does President Trump have?"
Donald Trump's topic on "Anne Will" (ARD): Do escalations increase the chance of his re-election?
Anne Will's TV editorial team gave in to the impulse to cross the social unrest in the context of the justice debate with a perennial favorite of political talk shows: President Donald Trump * and his chances in the US election campaign 2020 *.
Journalist Samira El Ouassil was struck by the memorable description that Trump was an "anti-president of the unified states". The 73-year-old is concerned with polarizing instead of wanting to unite a culturally and sociologically divided country - as it was under predecessor Barack Obamawas the case.
Nonetheless, Donald Trump is a "one-man plague", which the police in Washington cleared the way for demonstrators to visit a well-known evangelical church on foot to take pictures with a Bible in hand leave - a media-effective undertaking, the group agrees.
Green politician Cem Özdemir talks to "Anne Will" about the tense situation in the USA.
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For example, “Anne Will” set the pace of the significance of the events surrounding the violent death of George Floyd for the most powerful man in the world - and the reaction was analyzed in the form of a perfidious strategy by Donald Trump.
This inevitably meant that the causes of racism were not the center of attention. The America connection was maintained for a few minutes at the end of the program. However, the ARD did not make the widespread mistake of not inviting anyone who was affected by the problem: it was a multi-cultural round, with the author Alice Hasters as well as someone with dark skin and African roots.
"Anne Will" (ARD): Does the US President use events around George Floyd?
However, no opportunity was taken at the political talk show : to ask those involved about their personal experiences with unequal treatment in the course of their foreign origin. However , Alice Hasters had a lot to say about racism in the United States . The 30-year-old also emphasized that Donald Trump had neither brought racism to the United States nor racist police violence. A statement that is supported by an interesting statistic in a feature film: The hope that the relationship between Black and White would improve under Barack Obama was not fulfilled. Instead, the opposite is obviously the case: “In a US survey in 2009, 66 percent of those surveyed described the ratio as good. In summer 2016, 69 percent said the ratio was bad. "
The George Floyd case is particularly dynamic for her because it was particularly black people who were hit hardest by the corona pandemic in the United States: "in terms of unemployment, but also the fatalities," she explains.
Tongues on the scale for a possible re-election of Donald Trump could be rioting in the wake of the protest waves. Because the "Black lives matter" movement had already started to appear in the states in 2012, but escalations of violence and looting have torpedoed the cause of more justice, as journalist Christoph von Marschall explained. According to his intentions, these would have prevented more in terms of equality between the population groups from happening than before. Von Marschall sees two other facts that are important for Trump's re-election: the early end of the corona crisis * and the rectification of the economic problems with which the United States is struggling.
As the man who worked as a US correspondent for Tagesspiegel from 2005 to 2013 , Trump is talking about mobilizing his voters on the subject of police violence in order to bring them to the poll in the fall . If this succeeds better than the opposing faction, the re-election is realistic, "although he actually doesn't have the majority of the Americans behind him". Trump would particularly benefit if social unrest divided the country.
"Anne Will" (ARD): Cem Özdemir paints a dramatic scenario on the wall
Cem Özdemir jumps on to the previous speaker and explains how Trump is doing * that there is unrest in the US, police officers are attacked and violence is used. As a result, the president would position himself as the one who cares for “law and order” . To paint the Green Party dramatic scenario from North America to the wall: "Right-wing extremists already say let's get to the police shooting, so we can get even more unrest." The politician warns regarding the escalation in the US : "I would forward adjust that a lot can still happen. "
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For Deutsche Welle author Stefan Simons , who was even shot at by US police officers, the "fish stink from the head" - according to his accounts, the police are becoming increasingly authoritarian. For him, it is a "Trump paradigm" and a development that is being promoted nationwide to intimidate the population. The journalist has lived in the United States for 20 years, and describes how police violence against his profession and the population has increased, as well as “militarization of the police *” in many countries causing displeasure.
"Anne Will" (ARD): Analysis of the social reasons for racism
A productive dialogue was carried out by Marshal and Hasters about the origin of the racism problem in the states: As explained by Marshal, the aspect that the crime rate within the "black community" was significantly higher was too short. Hasters countered using the "hen and egg" principle that 400 years of racism and fewer human rights would inevitably mean that there were separate groups where "black people are crammed together and do not have sufficient access to education". This results in sequelae such as “self-organization and gang crime because they are based on themselves”, as the media representative explains.
The last minutes of “Anne Will” (ARD) were then switched to racism in Germany - a thematic undertaking that could have been saved in the end in the context of the program: Too different on several levels? Samira El Ouassil seems to see it at least similarly: "Racism here is completely different" - and justifies it with Germany's social and cultural background.
Conclusion: The TV talk in the first dealt with the emerging police violence under US President Donald Trump and how this could serve him as a possible instrument for his re-election. The emotional topic was worked up objectively by those present, the theses substantiated. To what extent can the structural problem in the states be solved in the medium term?
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