The Créteil academy indicated on Thursday that it was taking legal action after the publication of photos of students with their faces painted black during a carnival in Seine-et-Marne. “Blackface” evokes the “minstrel shows’ born in the first part of the 19th century in the United States.
Three high school students “were painted black with wooden spears and long dresses,” testifies a student in the final year. Another student assures that they imitated “monkey cries”