TYRON RICKETTS
Actor, musician and producer, born in Austria, raised in Germany
"I think the term Afro-German is very important right now, not so much to distinguish oneself from other communities but to become aware that you can be black and still be a German. And to be able to feel German because that's not yet possible. If you look at France, at England, you see that different communities may not always understand one another or like one another, but a black French person is still French. A black English person is still English. But in Germany it's really the case that as a black person, who's German, you´re still referred to as a foreigner."