{"id":23617,"date":"2012-06-04T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23617"},"modified":"2012-06-04T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T21:32:52","slug":"germany-gets-first-ever-black-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23617","title":{"rendered":"Germany gets first ever black mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany gets first ever black mayor<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Local: Germany’s News in English<\/a>
\nBerlin, Germany
\n2012-06-02<\/p>\n

John Ehret<\/a>, a black German who used to work for the Bundeskriminalamt<\/a> <\/em>(BKA), Germany\u2019s equivalent of the FBI, is Germany\u2019s first black mayor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Ehret, whose father was an African-American soldier and mother a native German, took over running the village of Mauer<\/a> near Heidelberg<\/a>, southern Germany on Friday, Der Spiegel<\/em> reported on his inauguration.
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\nDespite almost no campaigning, he picked up slightly more than 58 percent of the vote, beating out a civil servant in the village of about 4,000 residents. Observers said Ehret profited from a so-called \u201cObama<\/a>\u201d effect, though the trained police inspector didn\u2019t seek the comparison…<\/p>\n

…At six he was adopted by the Ehret family from Mauer. John became a star in the village and was the village\u2019s only black resident. He was known as Pel\u00e9<\/a>, after the Brazilian legend, at the club where he played football. John\u2019s new dad was a respected Social Democratic Party member on the local council…<\/p>\n

…Ehret, who insists he\u2019s never experienced discrimination in Germany, is now in an odd position in which black Germans want him to be an example to others. But he\u2019s not interested in that role.
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\n\u201cFor that I feel I\u2019m too German,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germany gets first ever black mayor The Local: Germany’s News in English Berlin, Germany 2012-06-02 John Ehret, a black German who used to work for the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany\u2019s equivalent of the FBI, is Germany\u2019s first black mayor. The 40-year-old Ehret, whose father was an African-American soldier and mother a native German, took over running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,6,26],"tags":[3228,2948,11019,11018],"class_list":["post-23617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-new-media","category-politics","tag-afro-germans","tag-germany","tag-john-ehret","tag-the-local-germanys-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}