For the umpteenth time, public television broadcast racist content in an entertainment format in a prominent broadcasting slot.
During the show “Verstehen Sie Spaß”, which was broadcast on ZDF on 29.10.2016, racist blackfacing was part of a sketch. In the run-up, there had been protests from the population at the discriminatory broadcast content, especially from the black communities.
In his post Why I can’t laugh at the black man as a nasty surprise on the website uebermedien, Ali Schwarzer comments from a concerned person’s perspective on why denigrating black people on the show is hurtful and infuriating.