The debate following the Ludwigshafen Fire, which seems like Solingen v2.0, continues. I might still be angry to irresponsible German politicians, but some scenes that I have recently witnessed made me believe in the future once again.
Did you see Christina? Nobody saw him, I guess; but she, just like an angel, came to the crime scene with a piece of paper that she painted something on it. The colorful paper
reads: "If something has happened, forgive us."
reads: "If something has happened, forgive us."And there is a rose, drawn by Christina's little hand. She left the paper on the police barricade, just above a placard, carrying some placards that this little girl can't understand their meaning yet: "Why?" or "Yesterday Jews, Today Muslims" or "Hitler is Not Alone, Neither Koch is."
Many other German children came to the scorched building to pay respect to the fallen ones. Some of the children brang flowers and hanged them to the railings, some left their teddy bears. Five of the victims were children, like themselves.
Can German politicians notice that all Turks in Germany have just wanted such words, like Christina wrote on a tiny piece of paper?
"If something has happened, forgive us." That's all. Just a touch of humanity... A sincere effort of sympathy...
These little children will handle the remaining problems in the future easily... In their world, there will be no Merkel, no neo-Nazism, no xenophobia allowed. It will be a big, big, bigger world...
The next generation doesn't include only wonderful children, like Christina, but also their parents, grandparents, the forever-young people, like 61 year-old Gisela Rote, who also rushed to the scene to exhibit a placard, saying "I love Turks..." I am sure that Turks love such Germans, too.


