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Racist Remark About Africa Lands Football Boss in Hot Water

The chairman of the board of German football club Schalke Clemens Tönnies told an audience that it would be better to fund power plants in Africa than impose climate change taxes because "the Africans would stop cutting down trees, and they would stop making babies when it gets dark".  Now he is facing the consequences...

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Clemens Tönnies at a game between Schweinfurt and Schalke in August 2018.

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