Don Imus, move over

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6556643.stm

Last Updated: Saturday, 14 April 2007, 22:05 GMT 23:05 UK

German army in 'racist video' row

The German army has faced a series of scandals in recent years

A video aired on German TV has shown an army recruit on firing practice being ordered to pretend he was in New York's Bronx facing hostile African Americans. In the grainy 90-second video, the instructor tells the soldier to swear as he fires his gun.
US civil rights leader, Al Sharpton, said it was outrageous to depict blacks as "target practice".
New York officials say they are saddened and frustrated that the Bronx district is depicted so negatively.
"Clearly these folks don't know anything about African-Americans or the Bronx," said Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrion Jnr, who recently returned from a trip to Germany to promote tourism to the district.
He has demanded an apology from the Germany military over the clip.
Skulls
During the filmed training session, an instructor tells the soldier: "You're in the Bronx, a black van pulls up in front of you and three African-Americans get out and start really insulting your mother... act!".
The soldier then fires his gun several times and shouts obscenities in English, as the instructor encourages him to curse even louder.
The clip was filmed in a forest in July 2006, near the barracks of the northern German town of Rendsburg .
The German army said it has been aware of the video since January and was investigating it.
It is the latest in a series of scandals to hit the German military.
A group of 18 army instructors are on trial in the country accused of abusing and humiliating recruits during training in 2004.
Last year, German newspapers published images of German soldiers serving in Afghanistan posing with skulls.

Looks like another job for Al and Jesse.

Foxnews has the story, too: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266114,00.html

Let's see how much airplay this story gets in the US media.

[eversio11]

I imagine that video must be quite humorous.

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During the filmed training session, an instructor tells the soldier: "You're in the Bronx, a black van pulls up in front of you and three African-Americans get out and start really insulting your mother... act!".
The soldier then fires his gun several times and shouts obscenities in English, as the instructor encourages him to curse even louder.....

They probably called his mother a nappy headed ho.

[BNaylor]

I guess this must be world race relations month.

The president of the Bronx, the New York City borough that the army instructor referred to in his directions to the soldier, demanded an apology from the German military and said the clip “indicates that bias and assumptions and racism is alive and well around the world.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18112446/?GT1=9246

[RSX-S777]

Poor African American self image and white guilt. The new chocolate and peanut butter.

And if a black van pulls up on you in the Bronx and three black men jump out...and all they do is "really insult your mother"...consider yourself lucky.

Al Sharpton is a sideshow hipocrite.

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by RSX-S777

And if a black van pulls up on you in the Bronx and three black men jump out...and all they do is "really insult your mother"...consider yourself lucky.

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And is it now lawful in Germany to open fire on someone for "really insulting your mother"...?

[Broke_as_****]

I would bet that if that if the video was better you'd see the German soldiers laughing.

Because it was a fucking joke.

If you've ever been in the military, any military, you'd know that PC-destroying jokes are the norm.

Today seems to be a great day to finally slam Al Sharpton in a wood chipper.

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Originally Posted by Broke_as_****

Today seems to be a great day to finally slam Al Sharpton in a wood chipper.

We should be so lucky.

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Originally Posted by Broke_as_****

I would bet that if that if the video was better you'd see the German soldiers laughing.

Because it was a fucking joke.

If you've ever been in the military, any military, you'd know that PC-destroying jokes are the norm.

Today seems to be a great day to finally slam Al Sharpton in a wood chipper.

Both of the Justice Brothers! (Sharpton/Jackson)