Akram’s Razor – Reflections on Islam, Muslims & America: “Black Like Me” in Germany

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This story is simultaneously sad and funny. A German puts on bad blackface to pretend to be a Somali, to prove Germans are racist.

Philipp Lichterbeck, film critic for the Tagesspiegel newspaper, says that Mr Wallraff’s disguise made him look like a clown. The fact that nobody suspected that something was amiss, he says, “does not exactly testify to the worldliness of the Germans”.

Akram’s Razor: “Black Like Me” in Germany.

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