Former local elected, Céline Pina is an essayist and activist. She is the founder of "Viv (r) e la République", she has also published
Guilty Silence
(Kero, 2016) and
Ces Matériaux Essentiels
(Bouquins, 2021).
In an interview with L'Express, Rama Yade explains living “
like a micro-aggression
” the fact that there is a statue of Colbert in Paris. Making herself the face of the “woke” movement, she explains that in France racism is everywhere, denounces the “
white privilege
” and explains that because of his skin color, “
certain doors (him) are closed
”. The problem is that his career testifies to the exact opposite and makes his victim's lament all the more inaudible as the one who shoots a red ball on France and would like to debunk the statue of Colbert, sees no problem in living in a city that bears the name of George Washington, who owned many slaves.
But victimization is never bothered with coherence since the essential is not the relationship to truth and history, but the determination to put the people and Nations on trial that one chooses to target. Rama Yade therefore unfolds her “woke” catechism without even realizing that she is the very example of the fact that social and non-racial privileges are preponderant in the trajectories. She is the illustration of it but refuses to assume it and to satisfy her victim ego even forgets that instead of fueling racial hatred, she could on the contrary be the very example of a France where the color of skin does not exist. is not an obstacle to individual ambitions.
Rama Yade could have been a model.
Certainly no social advancement, she comes from a privileged background and has made a journey that is completely representative of her social class.
Celine Pina
Because Rama Yade could have been a model. Certainly no social advancement, she comes from a privileged background and has made a journey that is completely representative of her social class. Daughter of a diplomat, she joined Sciences Po and then passed the prestigious competition for Senate administrators. She became a minister when she was barely in her thirties, then was appointed ambassador to Unesco before leaving for the United States, in one of those golden posts where the privileged people in power relocate. In the meantime, she will even have aspired to run for the Presidency of the Republic after having created her own party. In short, a journey marked by favor and advantages where it is difficult to distinguish any racial violence.
It would even be rather the reverse.
In view of her youth and her very poor political record at the time of her appointment, it is likely that she was chosen as minister precisely for the sake of showing that in the Republic, the color of skin did not limit ambitions, again less the exercise of responsibilities at the highest level.
There is nothing to reproach him for, when a minister is chosen, he is chosen as much because we are betting on a potential or an experience, as because he represents or symbolizes something that is beyond him.
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So many privileges normally give homework, one of the first is to try to turn personal advantages into opportunities for those who do not have the same opportunities. This is how it is often explained that the most disadvantaged people find it difficult to plan for ambitious educational and professional paths because they lack models of success with which to identify. In their time, the arrival of women ministers in governments advanced the cause of women, simply because they demonstrated in fact that it was possible and that the path they had taken could be followed by others. others.
The fact of appointing personalities of African, Arab or ultramarine origin to the government is also a way of sending a message of equality and of remembering that we do not judge a human being on his skin color but on his capabilities and merits. This message is one of the most republican there is. This is how Léopold Sédar Senghor, whose father Rama Yade was very close or Félix Houphouet Boigny were ministers of the Fourth Republic, Gaston Monnerville was president of the Senate between 1946 and 1968, the list of black ministers has grown. under the Fifth Republic with Roger Bambuck, Kofi Yamgnane, Sibeth N'diaye, Christiane Taubira, Hélène Geoffroy, Georges-Pau Langevin, Laura Flessel, Elisabeth Moreno… In the diversity of their backgrounds, their stories, many young people can project themselves .
Rama Yade could have used his story to convey the idea that in France, skin color is not a barrier.
It is proof that this does not bar access to prestigious posts and competitions in the Republic, nor to the exercise of power.
Celine Pina
Certainly it is paradoxical that it is necessary to highlight the color of a person's skin to send a message saying that it does not have much importance and that we are equal in our aspirations and our ability to rise to the top. above our original social condition, but for equality not to remain an abstract concept, it must be embodied in individual realities as well.
Rama Yade could have used his story to convey the idea that in France, skin color is not a barrier. It is proof that it does not bar access to prestigious posts and competitions in the Republic, nor to the exercise of power. She could have made her story a lever for many young black women and men to fight to achieve their ambitions, even if they do not have the same social and cultural assets as her.
It could have shown that identity entrepreneurs, who capitalize on their influence by making the accusation of racism the engine of their success, are above all predators: they discourage and radicalize a whole youth sometimes lost by making them believe that they have no future and there is no place for them. They thus send them into the wall instead of enjoining them to seize all the tools that can make them actors in their destiny and their success. Starting with investing in the school, but also by showing them that France is trying to help them also socially by paying for housing in low-income neighborhoods,by helping families through allowances ... Our country is investing in them and rather than cultivating a harmful resentment which prevents a whole part of the youth from believing in their future, Rama Yade could have been one of those who show that the color of skin does not is not an obstacle, or at least that it is far from insurmountable.
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Except that she did not choose exemplarity but complacency. It is therefore not surprising, as such, that this outrageous and ridiculous outing earned him a volley of green wood. This is not to deny that there is discrimination, in France as elsewhere. But the fact of having built our Nation on an egalitarian and universal ideal means that we fight them better here than elsewhere. France does not have a segregationist past like the United States, because very early on it thought of equality in law beyond sex, difference in skin color, social or religious difference. She made slavery a crime against humanity very early on. This is what was recalled elsewhere in
L'Express
Sarah El Haïry, the Secretary of State in charge of youth, who is always impeccable in firmness and courage on these questions and whose interview is remarkable: "
But who betrays the Republic and ultimately all that has been received? ?
It's her !
Republicans are those who refuse to fall into this culture of relativism, who basically refuse to oppose people according to their skin color, their family name, their place of birth
”.
We can not say it better.