German Development Minister: "All African Men Spend Their Money On Alcohol And Prostitutes"

In a speech to conservative politicians, which was picked up by Germany's satirical news program the "Heute Show," Germany's Development Minister Gerd Müller accused African men of being lazy drug addicts.

"When an African woman earns 100 dollars…she brings 90 dollars home. When an African man earns 100 dollars…what does he bring home? 30 dollars. You can be sure of what he uses the rest for: alcohol, boozing, drugs, women of course," said the member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).

Müller was excoriated on social media, not only for his racist statements, which he claimed were meant to empower women, but for the perceived absurdity of a development minister conflating all African countries with a single unit.

"This is repulsive racism, thinly disguised as pseudoscience. Such comments are not worthy of a cabinet minister," said lawmaker Katarina Barley.

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