Jean Genet - What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black...

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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Jean Genet

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Was ich noch nicht so intensiv kannte, war der Hass des weißen Amerikaners auf die Schwarzen, ein Hass, der so tief ist, dass ich mich frage, ob jeder weiße Mann in diesem Land, wenn er einen Baum pflanzt, keine Neger an seinen Ästen hängen sieht.

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