Five years after the Black Lives Matter protest on Dam Square and Akwasi’s unforgettable statement about Zwarte Piet, Pieter and he are a stone’s throw from the same place. The hate storm that followed then stopped Akwasi. “And out of that silence,” he says now, “Omroep Black arose.” With that broadcaster, he wants to add color to a palette that, according to him, has remained incomplete for years. “You don’t take anything away. You add something. And journalism missed perspective.”
The years since the dam were dominated by discipline. Living as a top athlete: “Eyes on the Prize”. Everything aimed at making the mission against racism succeed. He calls it resilience. The black angry man, as he was often put down, turns out to be soft: “I like to start conversation with people I don’t know. I don’t believe in:” He doesn’t know what the farmer does not know. “That doesn’t matter to me.”
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- Presentation:
- Pieter van der Wielen
- Editorial and production:
- Merel van Waalwijk van Doorn
- Mixage:
- Audio chef
- Music:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Photo:
- NRC