91% of black people feel discriminated against

Nine out of ten black people in mainland France say they are victims of racial discrimination in their everyday lives, 91% precisely, according to the latest barometer from the Representative Council of Black Associations (Cran), which franceinfo and the newspaper The Parisian reveal you exclusively.

In detail, this Ipsos survey commissioned by Cranto the question “would you say that in your everyday life, you personally are a victim of racial discrimination…?”, only 9% of black or mixed-race people of black descent answer “never”, whereas they are 22% to answer “rarely”, 44% from time to time and 25% “often”.

This “everyday racism” is sometimes expressed in an almost imperceptible way. It is in public spaces (the street or public transport) that this discrimination is felt the most, according to the black French respondents (41%). These facts also take place at work (31%), in stations, airports or at borders (18%); as well as at school or university (14%).

“These are the places of daily life”comments the founder of Cran, Patrick Lozès, in the newspaper The Parisian. In one year, in mainland France, seven out of ten people say they have faced disrespectful or contemptuous attitudes, believing that it was related to their skin color. A societal racism that also slips into work through small reflections, up to real difficulties in hiring, testify two-thirds of the respondents.

More frequent police checks and family rejection

The survey also teaches us that black people are always checked twice as much by the police as the French population as a whole. Finally, Le Cran shines the spotlight on the family rejection of several visible minorities: a third (31%) of French people say that they would react “badly” if their child married a black person, or of the same sex (36% ) and up to 46% if this person is of North African origin.