Prohibition of the Logo at German Schools

Unfortunately, the name PIT BULL causes massive problems in some schools. Of course, it must be said that the majority of schools and their staff are very tolerant. Currently, there are about 80 schools where they are not happy to see the PIT BULL Logo or it is even forbidden. We have sent the following letter to these schools, but we have not received a reply from one of them. Apparently, some teachers and head teachers are trying to push their own political carriers at our expense. Most schools which are trying to discriminate against us are located in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Cologne area a very motivated head teacher gave a pupil a written black mark for having a PIT BULL sweatshirt. However, the brave mother sought the help of a solicitor. And now look: in accordance with the ruling of the government presiding committee in Cologne, this head teacher had to cancel the black mark. How positive! This head teacher, who claims by the way that the signature of one of our shareholders is like Adolf Hitler’s, we greet with: “Hello idiot, you have totally failed as a teacher. A change of career or a longer social therapy would at least show some character.“

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Frankfurt, 2002


We are sending this little letter to the schools which are discriminating against our logo. Although we have sent it out many times, we have never had any replies. You cannot contradict the truth...............



But Hello Teacher,


I have been informed by some students in your school that students with products from our company are being discriminated against and subjected to prejudices. This is probably about extremism and xenophobia again. Allow me to put a question about this. What do you understand by right-wing extremism? Everything the other side of the SPD? According to the motto: “Form your own opinion”. In mathematics I learnt in Algebra that an extreme point gets more and more restricted and limited. Is not a FDP politician also extreme with regard to a PDS official? Namely, extremely liberal? Or a Green extremely ecological with regard to the CDU? Just in terms of logic, the concepts “radical” and “extreme” are totally misleading, because they cannot assess objectively in a non-evaluating or differentiating way.

Only you can do that by trying to stick some fascist-Nazi-Third-Reich history to us and our customers based on prejudices in a totally tedious way. And of course, without knowing us or our company.

And that is exactly what happened in the dark age of the Third Reich, when, without knowing them, people pre-judged others by their appearance, their religion, their background. The slogan: “That’s some of them” was enough then as now. And those who shouted it out, thought they were right then, just like today.

In this context I comment: 50 per cent of the employees in my company are foreigners. These are people from Serbia, Macedonia, Spain, Turkey and there is also one black employee, who incidentally holds the position of “in charge of radicals” and only wears clothes with Pit Bull logos. The name Pit Bull refers to an American dog breed and after all, America is our model society. It stands for freedom, independence, tolerance and peaceful co-existence of all the different cultures. That is evident here especially in the quite obvious brand awareness. Levi Jeans, Nike, LA Gear, Tommy Hilfiger are a few examples. Of course, these brands are not linked immediately with the genocide of the Indians. The fact that the right to vote was only introduced in 1965 for black people is also never publicly discussed.

In my opinion there is far more extremism in the terms “German shepherd dog” or “wire-haired dachshund” than in Pit Bull. Its ancestors were also not used as guard dogs and statistics show the incidence of bites for the Pit Bull is significantly behind the HUSKY or “German” breeds with a strong dog owner lobby.

If you feel impelled to do something against something bad, why not do something meaningful? The organisation against cruelty to animals in keeping livestock, Amnesty International or diverse environmental protection groups provide great opportunities for you to make a name for yourself and gain respect in society.

Even with “extremely” good intentions I cannot understand your way of behaviour. It is perfectly legal for your students to get drunk from when they are sixteen (40,000 deaths from alcohol per year!) Pornographic hardcore films are more or less totally freely available. Excessive violence in publicly available TV is described as “entertainment” and those who want more can fall back on a wide selection of video films. From chain saw massacres to ritual murders as Real TV. It’s all there. The computer games offered to your students with tempting brutal trailers also preferably contain the subject “Killing & Butchering”. Even if you describe Jesus as a bastard in a so-called “Christian” society with “Christian” parties, it is not subject to prosecution and in the best case scenario described as art.

But a T-shirt with the Pit Bull logo is a public outrage in your eyes?????????

Furthermore, it remains to hope than none of our foreign customers attend your intolerant school. If a Turkish or Moroccan student spends time in your classrooms you could quickly be identified as “xenophobic”, if you send him home with your threadbare, petty-minded arguments. Here in Frankfurt, the Pit Bull logo is worn by lots and lots of Moroccans, Turks, Yugoslavs, Russians, Algerians, Cambodians, Nigerians, Kurds etc. Would you also stick your right-wing prejudices on them?

In my lay opinion there is no relevant passage in the school regulations or law of school administration to justify your clearly-defined campaign against us. I am therefore thinking more of Section 35 of the School Regulations “Neutrality of School” or Section 36 “Freedom of Speech of Students”. I also cannot find any grounds for your argument in Section 18, which comprises exclusion from school. Incidentally, your behaviour is exactly the same as that of teachers and head teachers in the former East Germany; students there were sent home for wearing “Western gear”.

In any case I am still interested in the reason for your hatred towards us. But with probability bordering on certainty, in response to this letter nothing else will occur to you other than to turn to all possible institutions, which “must” take “legal steps” against us.

And although you have loads of spare time in your half-day job with its generous holidays, most likely you will not reply to me. You justify yourself personally with the argument: “I shall not put myself in the same position as these right-wing radicals and argue with them”. It would be interesting to learn if, in critical self-assessment, you would place your standard based on prejudice ABOVE or BELOW our standard?

Well, there is not much with which you can counter the truth and as a sign that you only have prejudices and no arguments, you will back “not acknowledge”.

In any case, I am appealing to you and your staff to exercise a bit more tolerance because discrimination will cast doubt on your students’ understanding of the meaning of democracy instead of underpin it.



Greetings from Frankfurt

Achim Langer & Kaya Budak



.....and now it’s your turn!!! Please let us know if you are affected by this school topic. (You will find the address on Page 3) We shall then forward the letter reproduced here to the head teacher without giving your name. Confidentiality guaranteed!!!