"Release the boy. Shoot zee father".
Posted on 04/15/2007 11:29:22 PM PDT by fishhound
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.
"Release the boy. Shoot zee father".
"Say what?!? I'm gonna get midieval on your Aryan asses!"
Tom Lehrer - MLF Lullaby
Too bad Sharpton isnt ever interested in how black gangbangers in New York treat other blacks as real ‘target practice’. The German thing is lame, but tha scam artist Al Sharpton himself is even lamer.
Hey Al, sue the German Army and see what you get. Used wool underwear, if you’re lucky.
Some idiots but no broad wave of racism in the German Bundeswehr.
US civil rights leader Race grifter, Al Sharpton, said it was outrageous to depict blacks as "target practice".
used wool underwear und vielen danke!
Some idiots but no broad wave of racism in the German Bundeswehr.
I agree.
I was reading Davidsmedienkritik this morning and according to one poster who has seen the video, the Bronx was just one of several scenarios that the instructor gave the soldier. Both instructor and soldier were laughing and joking around. Clearly, not meant to be taken seriously by anyone other than Sharpton.That is correct. I've posted a link to the video and translated a bit of what they're saying in this posting.
BTW, they have fired the instructor now. Another victim of Political Correctness.
Thanks for posting this. I don’t mind going after Europe when there is just cause, but I just don’t see that it’s justified in this instance. PC’s going bonkers as usual.
“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!”. I’m sorry, Mr. Sharpton, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Rangel. I only asked the store manager “where’s the hose.”
LOL :D
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