a “massive, frequent” phenomenon in employment, housing or leisure, deplores the Representative Council of Black Associations in France

A number “hallucinating” which gives “goosebumps” to Patrick Lozès: 91% of black people in mainland France say they are victims of racial discrimination in their everyday lives, according to an Ipsos survey. The president of the Representative Council of Black Associations (Cran) calls Wednesday February 15 on franceinfo “the public authorities to respond politically and institutionally to the demand for justice”. to answer “in response to the demand for respect that discrimination and racism in France flout daily”.

For the president of Cran, if this ordinary racism is also present in France today, it is because of a certain “freedom of speech”. He evokes in particular the remarks made by the deputy (RN) Grégoire de Fournas, who launched “that he (s) return (nt) to Africa” ​​in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, while his colleague Insoumis Carlos Martens Bilongo spoke.

Patrick Lozès also notes a hint of racism “when the players of the France team are taken to task because one of them has missed a goal and has the misfortune to have black skin”. It’s not “not normal” that republican values “are not really universal”.

The government plan is insufficient for Cran

Faced with this observation, Patrick Lozès claims to have all the same “trust in [son] country” : “The Republic is not just words, it’s also actions”, adds the president of Cran. It thus welcomes the fact that the majority “French people want us to fight discrimination as a priority”. And for that, Patrick Lozès pleads for a fight “collective” : “We must collectively find the means to meet the expectations of the black populations of France”he explains, with in particular a political and institutional response for more “of justice and respect”.

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Patrick Lozès does not question the government plan to fight against hatred and discrimination, presented on January 30. But he considers that this plan “will not be successful”whether “the tens of thousands of associations that do republican integration work on a daily basis” among victims of racism are not associated.

“It’s not just about decreeing ‘we are’ equal, we really have to make equals”.

Patrick Lozes

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For the president of Cran, it is not simply necessary to listen to the victims, but “work with”. “I call on us to unite, to make France so that black children in France are not abandoned at the risk of their phenotype”concludes Patrick Lozès.