The renaming of a Berlin boulevard to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Germany's first Africa-born scholar, has finally happened despite a last-ditch legal attempt to stop it.
It is a slur. You would neither call a black person nor the mauretanians this word. It’s not the n-word, but it’s something akin to that. A once neutral term to describe one people, which became a slur used against all black people.
It is a slur. You would neither call a black person nor the mauretanians this word. It’s not the n-word, but it’s something akin to that. A once neutral term to describe one people, which became a slur used against all black people.