@stevendbrewer @cstross @JdeBP @david Oh, I remember it well. In Germany for “Whistleblower”, read “Denunziant”.
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So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis?@juergen_hubert @Balderdoordash @mekkaokereke That is absolutely true. I noticed that when I lived there again during the “refugee crisis” in 2014/15. So, I’m not suggesting that there is no racism in Germany. Far from it. It just seemed that, at least back in the 80s, you being an American outweighed you being black.
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So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis?@mekkaokereke @Balderdoordash I grew up in Germany near a US Army base in the 80s when the memory of liberation was still strong (even with the German population). I was friends with one US soldier in particular and remember him saying that black soldiers loved being stationed in Europe because there, they were Americans first and black second.