Author of the documentary I am not your negro, where he denounced the denial of white America in the face of racism, the filmmaker, haitian Raoul Peck, denounces today the attitude of France faced with this same poison.
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“France is in denial and her children no longer have the time. His children “adultérins” no longer want to wait. His children black, white, yellow, rainbow flapping,” says the filmmaker in a text entitled “I choke” to be published this Wednesday, June 17, in the weekly The 1.
“The concentration of anger is accumulated every day in the hearts of those who “do not resemble” those who look at you from the outside, through the steamy window, is immeasurable,” wrote one who was a juror of the Cannes film Festival in 2012.
With an anger contained, the filmmaker whose film had been selected for the Oscars and who was awarded the César for best documentary in 2018, ” explains that racism “brutal, ugly, malicious” that he finds in France is the fruit of a long history linked to the rise of capitalism and social inequality.
“It is simply arrived at the end of a too heavy legacy of injustice, denial and profits, built on the misery of others. France is in denial because she refuses to accept that he lost his prominent position and his empire”, writes the director.
” I thought that another world was possible, without you having to put the fire everywhere. Now, I am not sure of the ” any ”
Former minister of Culture of Haiti, living mainly in France since more than fifty years, the filmmaker admits to being “a black man preferred to any point of view”, but observes with dismay “the excessiveness, the words racist, gestures racists, making racist, racist laws” that have become commonplace.
“They have reason to raise these young people. They have reason to protest, they might even have reason to break everything,” says the director who would like to see “every citizen take his share of the burden and stops to observe at a distance”.
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“we need to get to the root. Put everything on the table, to rebuild everything. No institution should escape. This is the problem of every citizen, of every institution, the press included, each board, each union, each political organization, everywhere it is necessary to open this project because it is up to you to solve this problem, not the Blacks, or the Arabs, or women, or gays, or the disabled, or the unemployed,” insisted Raoul Peck. Before adding: “We will reach you in a timely fashion.”
“I thought that another world was possible, without you having to put the fire everywhere. Now, I am not sure at all”, concludes, pessimistically, the director.
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if he is so unhappy, it only has to go in. Haiti ! It is an island of peace and love.
Bilout68le 16/06/2020 15:41
Attention a Raoul can hide another. He mixes his country the the it.
the taf to be there.
chatquiregardele 16/06/2020 15:40
It is not a little uncouth as to spit in the soup, especially as nothing forces them to not live in Haiti…? a
At the bottom, here, he feels at home or on a visit ? What side spectator denigrant, fingers in the dish of petits fours, is a little annoying, but there are who like to be…
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