Celle qui parle et ceux qui hurlent

In the last few days (or is it weeks already?), there has been a surge of racist comments and demonstrations worthy of the dumbest football fans jeering at black players or throwing bananas at them. The target was French justice minister Christiane Taubira, a black  professor of economics from French Guyana, and for what seemed like a very very long time, none of her colleagues in government seemed to have noticed the public insults relayed in the media. When a far-right weekly published a "satirical" cover implicitly equating Madame Taubira to an ape, someone finally had to react officially.

En 2002 j'ai voté pour Christiane Taubira, et je ne le regrette pas, malgré les reproches de mon père qui m'accusait d'avoir contribué à la déroute de Jospin. Rétrospectivement, je ne pouvais faire mieux que de donner ma voix à celle dont la parole émerge si magnifiquement au-dessus du cloaque de la haine. La plus humaine, la plus forte, la plus digne, c'est bien elle, si belle et intelligente.


Taubira aux jeunes homos : "Gardez la tête haute" par LeNouvelObservateur