Germany's Nightclubs Get Called Out for Racism

Last year, Munich resident Hamado Dipama decided that he'd had enough of being turned away from the city's nightclubs. Born in Burkina Faso, the 38-year-old had experienced what he suspected was racial profiling at club entrances time and again, leaving him feeling hurt and frustrated. As he explained to Süddeutsche Zeitung:

It's a humiliation that Dipama is far from alone in experiencing. In the past few years, nightclubs across Germany have been sued for turning away (sober, appropriately dressed) members of ethnic minorities – including this high-profile case in the city of Hanover. This could suggest that the actual incidence of such discrimination is actually higher. Proving that a club has rejected you solely for your ethnicity is hard, however, when clubs routinely make decisions about who they let in that can seem rude and arbitrary.