The ‘Aquarium’ of call horn Akwasi was the most read news in the Netherlands yesterday. What was actually the case? The drillthe rapper had said in an interview that he sometimes did had been called ‘Aquarium’ by his lady …
Fortunately, jumped the saddled horse girl Britt Dekker immediately came to the rescue and came up with a razor-sharp Tweet to actually clean the fish pond of Akwasi properly.
Yes and my teacher called me an unruly lazy pig haha do I have to cry now? This man… https://t.co/ITADVx0Y6M
– Britt Dekker (@Brittjje) September 5, 2020
Of course, Dekker has a point with the above Tweet. The undersigned (Kenneth) used to be jokingly denounced in elementary school ‘Ketnet’ (an insult at the time among Dutch children, because Belgian!). Your reporter personally did not suffer any trauma from this, but the question remains of course how others would deal with it.
In the case of Akwasi, that apparently had a profound impact on him. Of course very annoying when he has experienced that as hurtful, but stop for a moment with that sick game that has everything to do with your origin or skin color. Because that is of course what Akwasi implies now. And that is also very bad.
Thank goodness we also have the Eurovision song veteran Marga Bult still:
And they called me spindle bone with rabbit teeth! Grow up man, it only makes you stronger. ???? https://t.co/zTn0PId78z
– Marga Bult singer-presenter-chairman of the day. (@margabult) September 5, 2020
The question now is, ‘What’s worse? Compare someone to an aquarium, mention Ketnet or talk someone into rabbit teeth? We shouldn’t even ask each other that question, should we?
What are we actually talking about? Mere racism or general harassment that unfortunately occur everywhere? In the latter case, you can also simply donate to the Stop Bullying Foundation. At least then we no longer need to continuously ‘ethnically profile’.
