"I don't want to be taken for the opposite of what I'm fighting for
," said Clémentine Célarié this Thursday evening in "C à vous". Faced with Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and her team, the actress returned to her comments from the last weekend and which had caused a strong reaction from Internet users.
Saturday, February 11, the actress was a guest in "What a time!"
to promote his documentary about the famous dancer Joséphine Baker.
“I am black”
, she had declared in front of a somewhat distraught Léa Salamé.
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A statement that she had reiterated at the microphone of Sud Radio, saying that for
"having lived 14 years in Africa, she felt as African as black"
.
A speech that had strongly shocked Internet users.
"Leave the blacks alone"
,
"very serious remarks that we hear more and more often from the white saviors of humanity"
, could we read.
an outstretched hand
But tonight, on the France 5 talk show, Clémentine Célarié wanted to clarify her remarks.
“I was born with both skins, white and black around me.
I was carried by African women who raised me and were like mother's sisters
, ”she says before apologizing to anyone she could have
“offended”,
regretting to be
impulsive
by nature.
Insisting on her good faith, the 65-year-old actress compares her words to
“an outstretched hand, a word of love”.
This mother of a
"mixed-race boy"
testifies to the strong discrimination that her family has experienced.
“I have fought all my life against racism
,” she concluded.
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