Three years ago, together with a large nationwide alliance, we published the Open Letter “Decolonize Orientation Framework!” [https://decolonizeorientierungsrahmen .wordpress.com /] authored In the meantime, the Framework has been revised and reissued and is being disseminated in countless implementation projects in schools and civil society.
At the beginning of September this year, another expert conference on the orientation framework [https://www .engagement-global.de/veranstaltung-detail/achte-kmk-bmz-fachtagung.html] will be held in Bad Honnef. A look at the program disappoints all who expected a further development in the sense of a decolonial, emancipatory education. In terms of content, the event shines with blanks on educational work critical of power and racism. In terms of personnel, it is mainly white men who are in the program. Migrant-diasporic and Black perspectives, as well as perspectives of color, are again absent from the content and panels. I wonder if the organizers of the Engagement Global event will publish their own position paper on anti-racism. [https://www .engagement-global.de=””] know? At any rate, the fine words remain empty as far as the orientation framework is concerned. The orientation framework has not arrived in the German migration society. On the contrary, the orientation framework continues to serve as a tool for maintaining white supremacy.