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For Camélia Jordana, her words are controversial because she is "a racialized woman"

2021-01-31T16:04:39.503Z


The singer and actress also affirms that being the descendant of "Algerians resisting against France" makes her the privileged target of "reacts, fascists and racists".


The singer and actress, so touching in Emmanuel Mouret's latest film on romantic relationships, recently said in the columns of

The Obs

that men should ask

"forgiveness"

.

The words were, to say the least, controversial.

For her, there are several reasons for this:

"It is linked to the fact that I am a woman"

, she begins, questioned by the Pure Charts site.

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"And [it's linked to the fact that I am] a woman of color,"

adds the 27-year-old, while promoting her latest album,

Facile x Fragile

, released on January 29.

But, according to Camélia Jordana, the origin of this violence can go back even higher.

She recalls that she is the

"descendant of Algerians resisting against France, who before that fought for France."

A reference to her two grandfathers who, as she explains in various media, militated within the FLN during the Algerian war.

After having fought in World War II under the French flag.

"An idea from the United States"

Women

"It makes a good little combo for reactive, fascist and racist people,"

says the one who was revealed in 2009 in the show

Nouvelle Star

on M6.

In the register of controversies, Camélia Jordana recently crushed the Academy of Victories of Music for its

"lack of parity"

.

Above all, she had created one at the beginning of the year about police violence.

"

Men and women are being massacred [by the police] daily in France, for no other reason than their skin color

," she said.

"The freedom of public debate does not allow to say everything and anything,"

Christophe Castaner had reacted.

The philosopher Pascal Bruckner, him, analyzed the convictions of the musician:

"The idea coming straight from the United States, that the white man is guilty of all the misfortunes of the world, meets with us an unexpected success with the actors. and singers. ”

Source: lefigaro

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