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The author, Daniel-Erasmus Khan, discusses his personal experience with racism, having a migration background, but notes that his "Germanness" has hardly been challenged. He then shifts to the topic of racism in the field of public international law, citing examples of influential figures and texts that have perpetuated racist ideologies, such as Martti Koskenniemi's "Gentle Civilizer of Nations" and Johann Caspar Bluntschli's "Das moderne Völkerrecht der civilisirten Staten". Khan argues that the field of international law has a "dark" legacy of racism and that more research is needed to uncover and confront this history. He also mentions the need to re-examine the intellectual roots of influential concepts, such as the post-World War I mandate system, and to consider the removal of monuments and names of figures who promoted racist ideologies.