Show your colors

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Confess your color is a German saying and means something like: confess to something or speak your mind openly . The term comes from the field of card games and has been in use since the 18th century.

Use in the card game

In various card games, such as double-head or Skat , when playing a card the players have a card of the same color play ( "serve") or those with a trump sting. The other players must therefore confess whether they have this color in hand or not.

In a solitaire , the designation is chosen when the same card color is retained on a basic or auxiliary card.

Literary works

Show your colors , that was the title of the book, in which, according to May Ayim , “German women of African origin” in 1986 “documented their past and present in German society across generations”. The editorial meeting for the book and the reactions of the book led to the founding of numerous self-organizations “Black German” women and men. Showing one's colors was, according to May Ayim, “the first step towards founding the Initiative Black Germans (ISD) in Berlin and the Afro-German Women ( ADEFRA ) group in Munich. Since 1986, further Black German groups have emerged in West and East Germany, in some cases regional subgroups of the ISD and ADEFRA. Both organizations are now also targeting black people in Germany and include them. ”In contrast to the previously dominant foreign definition, self-portrayals were formulated using the book. The self-promotion brochure of the Initiative Schwarze Deutsche (ISD) states, among other things: “Our definition is not limited to skin color , but includes all minorities affected by racism. With terms like black Germans and Afro-Germans as an expression of our multicultural origins, we determine ourselves instead of being determined. ”Similarly, the self-definition in confessing colors reads :

The term Afro-German cannot and should not be about demarcation according to origin and skin color, as we know all too well what it means to suffer from exclusion. Rather, we want to use Afro-German to oppose conventional makeshift terms such as mixed race , mulatto or colored , as an attempt to determine ourselves instead of being determined.

ARD broadcast

The ARD telecast their Colors is an interview series, but also economic issues is designed as a special broadcast on major policy. It is occasionally inserted into the Das Erste program (example: nomination of Peer Steinbrück as candidate for chancellor of the SPD ). The moderation is provided by the director of the ARD capital studio Tina Hassel and ARD editor-in-chief Rainald Becker .

See also

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: Show your colors  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Patience Dictionary.” In: Vojtech Omasta: Patience. New and old games. Slovart-Verlag, 1985, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Quotations from: May Ayim: The Afro-German minority. In: Susan Arndt (Ed.): AfrikaBilder. Studies on racism in Germany. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89771-407-8 .
  3. ↑ K. Oguntoye, M. Opitz (Ayim), D. Schultz (ed.): Color confess. Afro-German women on the trail of their history. Berlin 1986, p. 10.