Berlin subway stop ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ called racist by Black Germans
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 27, 2022
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Most outbound commuters on the U3 line of Berlin’s U-Bahn subway system exit long before reaching the penultimate stop, nestled between the Grunewald forest and the Free University. But Moses Pölking remembers the uneasiness he felt when he was riding the train and first spotted the station’s peculiar name on the route map: Onkel Toms Hütte.
