If "privileged white" there are, it must well be able to twist it roughly the facts of an hour of great listening on public radio without running the risk of contradiction. The forum "anti-racist" of Virginie Despentes, read this morning by Augustin Trapenard on France Inter, shows only too well. The text begins like this : "In France, we are not racist, but I do not remember ever having seen a black man minister. Yet I am fifty years old, I've seen governments. "
It will write the list of members of the government, the blacks of the past fifty years : first, not to enter into this detestable logic of counting racial that some seek to impose, as was recently the case to Caesar ; then and above all because it is really not certain that the ministers and former ministers of color are due to the fact that it reminds us of their complexion rather than their merits. Of this list that we cannot do, we can say anything, and, in particular, that it is far too short, or that the men and women of color from accessing that too rarely to the highest responsibilities ; but to say that it is non-existent, it can not be.
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The facts do not count
it doesn't matter : if the cause is just, the facts no longer count, the false is a moment of the true. Comment of the journalist Daniel Schneidermann : "Virginie Despentes was factually wrong and politically because [sic]. "In this virtual world, the police are guilty of the murder of Adama Traoré before any trial, as before the notary of Bruay-en-Artois, necessarily assassin because significant for the intelligentsia (maoist), which Despentes is the heir. It does not have the last word about the death of Adama Traoré, and if there is a need to overwhelm the justice of something, it is to be much too slow, and let the speculation more or less complotistes to thrive. The word "prejudice" cannot be a most exact sense.
But what is probably most telling, is that in the proper sense, Virginie Despentes does not see the people of color. Or, more accurately, she sees them as she wants to see them, as victims, banished, outcast, offender, or even as terrorists that she " loves ", like the brothers Kouachi ; not as ministers, teachers, doctors or police officers. At the bottom, this image is simplistic, it is the same as that of Éric Zemmour, the guilt in addition, on the background of the denunciation of a "system" of which we can at least give him / her act – she is conscious of being completely part of that.
" Arabic service ! "
The trial of the "system" leads to a paradoxical demand. The "racialized" are invisible, but if by some misfortune, some of them join, they become traitors. "Sold ! ", chanted protesters on Tuesday evening to address a SRC black stunned. "The Arabic service ! "sends the activist Taha Bouhafs to the unionist police Linda Kebbab on Twitter. Where all the racists should be able to find to deplore that there are not enough ministers, police officers, physicians, or professors in black, and seek to ensure that there is more, the décoloniaux prefer to denounce the " Bounty ", black outside, white inside.
a Thousand comments lenient, receive the denial and the excessiveness of the text, and a thousand reprobation await those who find fault with : so for you, the problem is not that the police is killing Blacks, it is that Virginie Despentes is an exaggeration ? We saw three-month gap in the sequence of Adele Haenel at Cesar had been involved in another forum, the admiring but equally excessive, of the same author, entitled " We get up and it breaks ! ". Well, the problem is actually that there is racism in all societies, in France as in the United States, and in all layers of the society, in the police as elsewhere. But the problem is also that there is violence in these same companies, and that a growing proportion of this violence is directed against the police. And it is because these problems are heavy, because they are complex, that the facility is controversial and is not permitted. Racism in the police, violence against police officers : everything is to be considered together and in one piece, with clarity, without minimizing nor exaggerating the other, and there is more : without any attempt to justify one by the other, what the identity in the two camps spend their time doing. And by having the courage to think against oneself, denying himself the little pleasures of the excessive media attention, and the ease of slogans slamming.
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Stop convenience
Because who can believe, that of the tribunes inflamed, which denounce of throwing everyone in the same bag can bring something other than a rising tension ? Who can believe in polarizing as well and stoking the conflict, we are going to make the debate possible ? Who imagines that, by distorting the real, it will shatter the truth ? The victims of racism deserve the best lawyers that the intermittent workers of the spectacle of indignation, even as the police have nothing to gain by getting caught up in a defense corps that looks like " move along, there's nothing to see ! "simply because there are, as always, to see that neither the men nor the institutions are not infallible : a police officer who said" the bicots, it not know how to swim " is a disgrace for a democratic State. Stop the complacency and demagogy, wherever it comes from : the killing racist of George Floyd we are concerned, of course. The racism we are concerned, the relationship between the police and the population we are concerned. But this tragedy forces us to grow, to refuse the facility.
It is high time that the policy takes head-on the question of the relation police-population. It is not necessary to hide things : it deteriorates, to the detriment of all, police officers, young and less young people, all the world. That all those who feel concerned to get involved ! There is a great debate, without any deviations, without taboo... but without second thoughts or trial of intent, not more. Are we capable of it ? It is necessary ! The time is not to build barricades, but to bring them down.
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