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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: A Moorish military musician in Berlin by Peter Schenk (c. 1690) [IMG]http://www.taneter.org/peterschenk.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]Around the time of Moorish occupation if Spain Europeans referred to any Muslim living in Africa as a Moor After the Moors were driven from Spain Europeans often called any African a "Moor" regardless of the fact that they might not have been North African The "Moors" never called themselves Moors It was a European imposed term that came to be used loosely and change meaning in different times and places, other varients terms "Blackamoor" and "Tawny Moor" were also used The fair skinned Germans had a fetish for "exotic" black Africans i.e. "Moors" and used generic "Moors: as mascot emblems in their heraldry and later blackamoor baubles [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-40-32.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-40-32.png[/IMG][/URL] http://www.exberliner.com/features/lifestyle/colonial-berlin-in-10-stops/ 1. Gröbenufer A slave trader’s street Start out on the Kreuzberg side of the Oberbaum Bridge. Opposite from Watergate, you’ll find a small street that runs along the Spree. This street was once named after Otto Friedrich von der Gröben. While other Prussians were focused on the army, this 25-year-old aristocrat braved the oceans to reach the Gold Coast (in current-day Ghana) and establish the fort Groß-Friedrichsburg. On January 1, 1683, the screaming red eagle of Brandenburg was raised over African soil. The Prussians used the fort primarily for slave trading, kidnapping over 20,000 Africans and sending them across the Atlantic. After 35 years, however, Prussia’s soldier king lost interest in colonies and sold the fort to the Dutch West India Company. Gröben might have remained a footnote in German history had his name not been dredged up during the fevered colonial excitement of 1895 when the government honoured him as the founder of Germany’s colonial empire. 2. Mohrenstraße “’Moor’ isn’t an offensive word!” Long before Hollywood actresses started adopting African babies, 18th-century European royals were enthralled with “court moors”: Africans forced to work as servants. When the Dutch bought Groß-Friedrichsburg, their payment included 12 Gold Coast natives, whom old King Fritz put to work as army musicians. Their barracks in the centre of Berlin inspired the name “Moor Street”. Many years later, German-African activists are still campaigning to change the outdated racial slur to something less offensive (“Nelson Mandela Street” was one suggestion). Longtime Berliner Yonas Endrias, originally from Eritrea, has spent the past seven years campaigning with the group Berlin Postkolonial, listening as local (white) politicians explain that “moor” is not really a deprecatory word. In February 2009, an unknown individual in a pink bunny suit added two dots to the street signs, thus transforming Racial Epithet Street (Mohrenstraße) into Carrot Street (Möhrenstraße). Clever, right? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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