US EditionCriticism of "Lumumba": Racism at the Christmas market?
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The organizer of the Frankfurt Christmas market recommends that stallholders offer the “Lumumba” under a different name in the future. The reason for this is the derivation of the term.
Stallholders at the Frankfurt Santa Claus Fair should not use the term "Lumumba." According to the organizers, it could fuel racist prejudices.
Tastes good, warms you up – and has an apparently controversial name. Hot cocoa with rum will no longer be sold as "Lumumba" in Frankfurt.
The drink "Lumumba" is often offered at Christmas markets: hot cocoa "with a shot" of alcohol. Because critics see this as a mockery of the Congolese freedom fighter who gave it its name, stall owners in the Main metropolis are to give the drink a new name.
This also needs attention: The discussion about Lumumba at the Ettlingen Christmas market is annoying, but it is part of the process of coming to terms with colonialism.
Will the hot drink “Lumumba” soon no longer be available? Critics consider the name racist. What does the cocoa with a shot have to do with an African freedom fighter.
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