Racism debate on WDR: Carnival show now with a billboard

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After criticism of racism at a TV compilation of earlier carnival programs, the West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR) covered the relevant passage with a notice board.

The sequence shows the controversial practice of “blackfacing”, which is perceived as racist: White people were shown on the carnival stage with black make-up.

In the media library of the public broadcaster, the affected sequence of the program “Jet zo fiere!

The best of the award of the order “Against the animal seriousness” ”to see a notice board instead of the pictures, the sound continues at the same time.

The board reads: “This video contains an excerpt from 2010 that we have removed.

It shows people with "blackfacing" on stage.

“Blackfacing” is now rightly criticized and frowned upon in carnival.

The scene should not have been included in the compilation. "

This note is now displayed in the WDR (screenshot)

Source: Screenshot WDR

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The show was on the TV program on Sunday night on WDR television.

Then came criticism on Twitter.

The WDR also responded to this and tweeted: “Something like this shouldn't happen to us - especially not after the discussions of the past weeks.

And it shows that we still have a lot to do here. "

Recently there had been criticism of racism on a WDR broadcast.

At the end of January a repetition of the panel discussion “The last instance” was shown.

Presenter Steffen Hallaschka discussed social issues with guests Micky Beisenherz, Thomas Gottschalk, Janine Kunze and Jürgen Milski, including the question: "The end of the gypsy sauce: Is that a necessary step?"

One of the points of criticism afterwards was that the discussion was conducted exclusively by white guests.

The broadcaster admitted mistakes, the moderator and some of the talk guests apologized.

Gottschalk wrote in a guest post in “Welt am Sonntag”: “As far as the Z word from the“ Last Instance ”is concerned, I gave the green light for an expression that I will show the red card in the future, and I promise that never to use unfortunate words again. "