Anton Wilhelm Amo

Germany still has a long way to go. The Mohrenstrasse (Moor Street) is a street in central Berlin. The name appeared in maps from the early 18th century. The origin is not quite clear. After many years of debate the city finally decided to rename the street to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Street, after the first African philosopher at  German universities. A last minute court ruling stopped the official renaming tomorrow. A group of people argued that simple calling a street after people with a different colour of skin wasn't racist. Also it is a historic name. Germany might not have had as many colonies as other European countries which wasn't due to the lack of trying. Nevertheless Germany was part of the colonial system and profited from it. Europeans still benefit from the world order established centuries ago. Renaming a single street is a small and merely symbolic step. The culture war is raging.