Post-migrant voices at times of hyper-visibility 141 5.1.3 Inequality: “Reflect your whiteness!” (10.7.2020) This is an episode addressing their white listeners. The hosts discuss the topic together with three guests, a white writer, a white actress and a black scholar, who are engaged with discrimination issues, such as the “white privilege” of not having “to deal with racism”. To provoke, they turn the tables by point- ing the spotlight at the “offenders”, the “white people”, who have difficulties detecting and discussing racism. They depart from the assumption, with reference to the book by DiAngelo “White Fragility” (2018), that everyday racism is mostly invisible for white people because of their “white supremacy” and “negation of structural racism”. Even well-meaning white people who de- mand that skin color should not matter do not realize how it re- ally does matters by avoiding this topic. Thus, the hosts want to challenge their guests and their white listeners and urge them to reflect on privileges due to a white skin color. Questions guiding the conversation are directly connected to one’s own experiences: “When have you realized for the first time that you are white? How do you deal with your privileges? How can you develop critical thinking about your privileges?” The listeners are invited to comment and tell their stories on Twitter and Instagram. All participants agree that it is necessary to acknowl- edge the advantages white people have from birth in this country. To avoid more generalization, one of the hosts, Aburakia, in- cludes the issue of nationality. For him, “to be a German is much more than just being white. I am not entirely white because I am Arabic, too. I’m in the middle”. Racism is not only related to ap- pearance and skin color but also to language proficiency, to the sound of the first and last names, and the level of education. As they conclude: “white is relative, and it is not an absolute color”. Starting with provocative claims by attributing views to skin color, the hosts open finally up for more nuances and claim that racism is not only an issue of skin color. 5.1.4 Awareness: “The most blatant sayings are from Turkish kids” 26.6.2020 Together with two black female guests, one of them a Muslim of Turkish and African descent, the hosts discuss the
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