The Government is dismayed by the pictoral page of the daily newspaper, the Allgemeine Zeitung, which published the German festival participants or organizer honoring the Klu Klux Klan - a white extremist movement that killed black people.
The Government has witnessed the shocking images of youths dressed in offensive gear during the Swakopmund Carnival (Kuska-Maskenball) - a traditional German festival that took place in the coastal town. The youths were dressed as members of the Klu Klux Klan and others were dressed in laborers outfits painted in blackface. Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used by performers to represent a black person. Blackface as a practice, which gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky/ darky on the plantation'. Their outfits were called 'imaginative' in the Allgemeine Zeitung where it was published. (Read more....)