ika hugel marshall was the daughter of a white german mother and an african american gi. as a mixed race so called occupation baby, ika s story shows how the racism she faced growing up led to years spent grappling with her identity. translation: when i was a child people would scratch my face - with a scrubbing brush to show other children that it wasn t chocolate on my face. obviously, as a child, i couldn t figure out why this was happening to me. ijust wanted to be white, to have the feeling of belonging and be like the others.
so much has changed in america since then and so much has remained the same. and for ourfinalfilm we are heading to post war germany. ika hugel marshall was the daughter of a white german mother and an african american gi. as a mixed race so called occupation baby, ika s story shows how the racism she faced growing up led to years spent grappling with her identity. translation: when i was a child people would scratch my face - with a scrubbing brush to show other children that it wasn t chocolate on my face. obviously, as a child, i couldn t figure out why this was happening to me. ijust wanted to be white, to have the feeling of belonging and be like the others.
and since then we have given scholarship to african students who were also struggling like amadou, so that helped to heal me a little bit. i don t want anyone to ever forget who my child was. i want him to be remembered by the life he lived, not the way he died. amadou diallo s death was almost two decades before black lives matter or george floyd. so much has changed in america since then and so much has remained the same. and for ourfinalfilm we are heading to post war germany. ika hugel marshall was the daughter of a white german mother and an african american gi. as a mixed race so called occupation baby, ika s story shows how