2023-09-19 18:40:00
EDITORIAL – On August 28, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s most famous speech: “I have a dream“.
At the initiative of Pap Ndiaye, then minister, National Education decided to also commemorate this event by publishing a video. But be careful, not just any video! No. A video “promoting educational work around commitment“.
To mark the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s speech, the Ministry of National Education and Youth has published a video promoting educational work around commitment.
This video was produced on June 30, on the occasion of the award ceremony…— Ministry of National Education and Youth (@education_gouv) August 30, 2023
This video was produced on June 30 during the awards ceremony of an annual national encouraging competition “creative practice of English in middle school“ : “The More I Say“The word was given to the laureates, in the form of a profession of faith for a better world, delivered by each of them and which begins with the anaphora”I have a dream.”
For once, the initiative taken by Pap Ndiaye appears eminently laudable. As a form of farewell for the man who will undoubtedly remain for a long time the most controversial Minister of National Education in the Republic.
The video promoted by National Education did not feature anyone extolling the merits of sex change in kindergarten class. Or a human having suddenly decided to take himself for a saucepan, a clove or a catfish, with an injunction for society, not to consider all this as degeneration (death to those resistant to progress!), but to adapt to these wonderful changes. How ? By creating as many structures adapted to each of these personal positions and essential to the psychological balance and development of these individuals.
Why did Gabriel Attal, Pap Ndiaye’s successor at the head of National Education, feel obliged to remove this video? The official press release from his ministry explains it to us:
“Faced with the disturbance caused by this video and the violence of certain comments towards the students who had enthusiastically invested in this project, the communications department of the ministry decided to remove this video from its social networks.”
Oh? But why such excitement? Why so much violence ? And above all, who does it come from?
Anti-racist associations, and because – morbleu! – in this video, the teenagers were all white. “Whiter than white“.
A due nod to Coluche. A double nod, moreover, because to this tirade taken from the sketch “The advertisement“, it is appropriate to add this other tirade, taken from another sketch by Michel Colucci, “L’Apartheid“, in which he explains that to put an end to racial conflicts, it is enough just to no longer use the terms black and white, and to name “Blues“all South Africans. Immediately afterwards, he concluded thus:
“Come on: light Blues in front and dark Blues behind.“
This tirade allows me to continue as follows:
“In a multi-colored France where, from then on, all citizens should see life in pink, black people see everything in black because there are only white people, and are red with anger. Other citizens, on the other hand, whether or not they are of Asian origin, laugh yellow.”
And it gets worse! Yes Yes.
“A North American in Paris“, Mathieu Bock-Côté, spoke on the subject on August 30, 2023 on the antenna of Cnews. Questioned by the host of the show, Christine Kelly (“The kids are all white, and that’s a problem. Tell us what happened. Why this indignation?“), Mr. Bock-Côté got straight to the point with a speech that some did not fail to judge… tortuous.
And for good reason !
Here, reproduced almost word for word, is the diatribe that the man who could wrongly be related to a descendant of the exterminators of the American Indians, if he were not from Quebec, declared:
“Starting point, please allow me to mention that I am fascinated to see to what extent the French have the habit of appropriating American history to dissolve in it. Martin Luther King is an immense character in history American. It is anchored in American history. And when we decide to impose it on the young French generation, as if France itself had the past of discrimination, of racial segregation that the United States experienced, and even more so the South of the United States, we call it mental Americanization. Or you can also call it American-style mental colonization carried out by the Ministry of National Education. Intellectual and mental fraud.”
Sorry Matthieu Bock-Côté, but I disagree with this statement. In any case of harm allegedly caused to one person by another, what is important to do before anything else, so that the truth, both legal and factual, is manifested without any possible equivocation, is to first respond to this simple question: “Who started ?“
So let’s start at the beginning.
First of all, who is Martin Luther King? And did he really exist?
Oh yes ! In a world where politicians, media, and other experts constantly provide us with questionable truths, everything can be legitimately called into question by citizens at one time or another. In this world which, unfortunately, is now ours, we have the right to ask ourselves these two questions.
And all the more so since it’s an American who’s speaking to us.”of appropriation of American history“, to us French, and this, while the American targeted in his accusation is called Martin Luther King.
First of all, if I believe his criminal record, this Martin Luther King may be black, but he is not completely white.
Secondly, with the first of his two first names, Martin, this Mr. King has appropriated a French surname par excellence. Isn’t this the most common French first name in France?
Third: with his middle name, Luther, he showed his willingness to appear as a Protestant all the time. Now, excuse me, but is my faith very Catholic?
And fourthly, attack France head-on and on its values, this country where to establish the Republic, the king lost his head, and do this when we are called “King“, it’s undoubtedly trying to take our heads! And for nothing more. We didn’t do anything to this King!
Joking aside, what bothers me about Mathieu Bock-Côté is that he is absolutely right on one point. Three even, more precisely.
First point: damn yes, what outcry would we have faced from the media and the anti-racist legions, if rather than having a French football team made up of the best French players (international players who are currently all black or almost), that is to say on merit, we played with a team built according to the proportion of Whites, Blacks, Arabs, Latinos, Asians or Inuits, in the French population, that is to say according to quotas . What a scandal they would create, these perpetual slayers!
However, a composition according to quotas is what anti-racist associations, the media and the government are trying to impose in all areas, and in this case in this Martin Luther King affair.
Second point: the video having been removed because, to the taste of the anti-racist legions, making only white teenagers speak was inappropriate, if not an insult to Martin Luther King and his work, it was not the anti-racists who won, but the racists.
And third point, given what Martin Luther King said in his speech “I have a dream“, about the dream he claims to have had, him the symbol and eternal official leader of the fight against anti-Black racism operated by whites (“I wish for a world where we define ourselves beyond any form of racial belonging.“), the fact that, by application of the rule of merit instead of the rule of quotas, white teenagers were chosen to commemorate the 60th anniversary of his speech is “almost” the best tribute that could be paid to him rendered.
“Presque” in quotation marks because, to be without possible objective dispute, it would have been necessary to proceed by choosing expressly and only white teenagers.
Yes, not on merit: on purpose! Expressly and with the following justification: what could be more fully and perfectly symbolic, to pay homage, not only to Martin Luther King the man, but also and above all to his work, than the fight against anti-Black racism operated by whites ?
Nothing.
Nothing could have been better. Nothing except, of course, that the official leaders of the Ku-Klux-Klan, dressed in their white costumes, had stood there, that they had all removed their headdresses, and that, having done so, each of them had taken up their positions in turn. words of Martin Luther King during this famous speech, in this formulation barely modified in two places, adapted so as to grant him victory and submit to his just and noble will for justice between the races:
“I validate this world where we define ourselves beyond any form of racial belonging.”
Validate instead of wishing, and the verb define conjugated to the indicative (“Let’s define”), and not to the conditional (“Let’s define”), to state an element of obvious fact, an effective truth.
Yes, as a visceral anti-racist, this is exactly what I would have added after the words “I have a dream“, if I had been invited to participate in this commemorative video: “A world where we define ourselves beyond any form of racial affiliation.“
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