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Dear Editor,

Here's an issue I strongly feel about and would like to voice to Swiss News readers in the form of the following article:

Changing Attitudes?

An African professional worked at a high-tech firm in Zurich His Swiss supervisor repeatedly called him "Kunta Kinte." In the novel "Roots," Kinte was a black slave.

"If you call me that again. I will hit you," the immigrant said.

The supervisor laughed and said the offensive name. He was promptly struck in the face. Now the still professional, but bitter immigrant says with unapologetic simplicity. "People here don't understand that an African's fists know how to talk."

As a well educated, but black Swiss-American I also frequently want to hit something. I'm harassed by police, rattled in stores, re-checked on trains and generally assumed to be a thief. Apparently, I can elongate my arms and levitate objects like comic book villains as people desperately clutch their belongings when I'm wards away, I'm often given a wide berth and receive stares of loathing and twisted curiosity. Maybe I should just scream "Boo!"

Employment consultants warned me not to send photographs with applications. And two women on a train really said it all, assuming I couldn't understand them. They solemnly concluded there are too many blacks and that we are "a danger to Switzerland."

Yet, Switzerland is not...

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