<p>BERLIN — Leaders of Germany’s Greens on Saturday slammed the mayor of Tuebingen, a member of their own party, for using a racist slur in a social media post about a black soccer player.</p>
<p>Boris Palmer, who has regularly irked fellow members of the center-left party with his comments about migrants and minorities, had used the racist term in reference to former Germany player Dennis Aogo. </p>
<p>“The comments by Boris Palmer are racist and repulsive,” Annalena Baerbock, the Green’s candidate for chancellor, wrote on Twitter.</p>
<p>She said Palmer’s repeated “provocations, which exclude and hurt people,” meant he had lost the party’s support and it would now discuss consequences “including expulsion proceedings.”</p>
<p>Palmer was elected to a second eight-year term as mayor in 2014 and remains a popular figure in Tuebingen, a university town in southwest Germany.</p>
<p>Aogo was earlier this week embroiled in <a href="https://apnews.com/article/bundesliga-premier-league-jens-lehmann-europe-race-and-ethnicity-e5108b307e18e444cae5dd8f642f27d1">a racism row</a> with former Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann.</p>
