Ben Cramer is very disappointed with the remarkable statement he has made about the skin color of Claude, which this year is going to the Eurovision Song Contest on our country. “I’m not a racist.”
The 78-year-old musical dino Ben Cramer says he has little faith in the artist who is on stage this year of the Eurovision Song Contest: the 21-year-old Claude. He will play the song C’est La Vie there, but according to Ben it is very confusing to send someone who sings English and French and is black.
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An extremely remarkable statement of course. Ben literally said: “English will look better internationally. Only we have a dark man who sings in French and English and has a French name, but he comes from the Netherlands. That is quite something, if you start thinking.”
Telegraaf presenter Wilson Boldewijn finds it a stupid statement. He says: “He finds it all confusing:” A dark boy who sings French, “and then I think: Ben Cramer, in what century were you born?”
Ben responds
Ben responds now De Telegraaf On the resulting fuss. “To begin with: I should of course never have used the word dark. It was a list of things that make the act confusing for me.”
He continues: “The chosen melody and many languages, the dancers who seem to do with their movements to morning gymnastics, Claud’s background and his skin color.”
Matter of taste
Huh? Claude’s skin color is therefore one issue For Ben? What does he really want to say? “In terms of number and version, it is of course a matter of taste. But the term ‘dark man’ should of course not have fallen. That was wrong and thoughtless of me. Point!”
He continues: “I used it purely to illustrate the many ingredients we have this year. That seemed to serve him with his appearance, but of course that has never been my intention.”
No racist
Ben was approached by many people about his weird statements. “Even my own children came to me this week to say,” Dad, this statement, you’re not at all? ” And so it is. “
He emphasizes that he is not a racist. “If that boy wants to drink a cup of coffee with me, I will meet tomorrow with him to explain it again personally. (…) I have respect for every faith, orientation and origin. Racist is the last thing I am.”