Janice Rogers Brown, 72, a black American who grew up in Alabama during the era of racial segregation, served as a judge of the California Supreme Court and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She analyzes the racial question in America and strongly refutes the idea that nothing would have changed in the United States since the Jim Crow laws (laws adopted by the Southern States after the Civil War to hinder the exercise of constitutional rights black Americans newly consecrated by Congress, Editor's note) and that the American project would be fundamentally vitiated by slavery. For her, the “woke” ideology of social justice has been adorned with the clothes of the civil rights struggle, but in fact pursues goals opposed to those defended by Martin Luther King,reproducing the racist patterns of the past that it claims to fight.
LE FIGARO You grew up in Alabama during segregation.
How has it shaped your view of the racial debate?
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