"
Hot cocoa, hot chocolate, if you give me coconuts, I'll give you my pineapples ...
" If we are to believe some very sharp anti-racist exegetes, the refrain that we thought was innocent from
Chaud Cacaco,
half a century after its success, today would symbolize the domination of the white world over the black world and its interpreter the petulant fanciful Belgian Annie Cordy, partner of Luis Mariano and Bourvil, would have become a few months after his disappearance on September 4, 2020 , a singer with nauseating messages.
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Tata Yoyo
This controversy was born in the flat country after Mireille Tseuhi Robert, president of Bamko "
a feminist center of reflection and action on anti-black racism
", evoked what would be according to her the true meaning of
Chaud Cacao
on RTL- TVI.
“
There is a paradigm shift and a political shift.
It's a song that cannot be erased from Belgian heritage, nor Annie Cordy for that matter, but what is most important is to be aware of it, ”she
thinks.
It will be understood for the activist associations the song
Chaud Cacao (Cho KA KA O in its original spelling) would
convey stereotypes which no longer need to be today and of which we should erase all traces.
This activist has nothing to say against
La Bonne du Curé.
Or not yet ... But we are not immune to some people finding that
Tata Yoyo
offers a degrading vision of women with their false eyelashes and their big hat.
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Faced with these accusations, which she considers absurd, Michèle Lebon, the singer's niece and responsible for her intellectual heritage, immediately counter-attacked by asserting: "
I know
Chaud Cacao
by heart and I'm still looking for what he can. there is something racist about it.
"
In France, where Annie Cordy was and remains very popular, the political reinterpretation of
Chaud Cacao
has ended up also rustling on social networks.
On Twitter, La Licra (The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism) even split a message written in a humorous way that puts this ridiculous controversy in its place:
"Sorry to disturb the crazy people but in
Chaud cacao
, is racism aimed at whistling dragons, drum crabs or werewolves?
It's for a Belgian friend who would like to go to Wonderland.
Thank you.
#they have gone crazy.
"
Read also: The longest tunnel in Belgium takes the name of Annie Cordy
The ball is now in the court of the Belgian authorities who have just renamed the tunnel Leopold II, a king considered "
colonialist
", in favor of the name of the one who until recently seemed consensual.
Hot cocoa
by Annie Cordy, lyrics by Patrick Bousquet, music by Vivien Varray and Pierre Carrel
