There is another way, thought 32-year-old Remy Tilburg of Conny Janssen Danst. For years he got the necessary ‘shit’, such as ‘hey monkey’, thrown at his head. Just when he was walking down the street. Discrimination is not strange to Tilburg, who comes from Suriname.
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“But what is a monkey?” he wondered at the right moment. “It is a word that the other supposedly gives a meaning to. That doesn’t mean it applies to me,” Tilburg responds. “I have a free choice in that.” Ever since he realized that, the switch has flipped. “Words are just words. Discrimination doesn’t bother me that much anymore.”
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