France, Alternative Libertaire AL - antiracism: Exhibit B, the human zoo based issues of anti-racism. (fr, it, pt)

France, Alternative Libertaire AL - antiracism: Exhibit B,
the human zoo based issues of anti-racism. (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]

The mobilization against the exhibition of the artist South African Brett Bailey, led 
among others by the NAO (Brigade Anti negrophobia) suffered an unexpected repression by 
the security forces. The mobilization has challenged before a debate as old as the 
anti-racist struggles: that of fraternalism. ---- One may think that the mobilization 
against exposure Exhibit B at the wrong target, it is divider or is a waste of time 
compared to anti-racist struggles more important. Yet there would be more reason to 
rejoice mobilization against Exhibit B , angry cry for dignity and self-assertion. ---- 
Unfortunately, and despite the surprising transpiring repression of racism, many white 
anti-racist activists have increasingly recognized that Brett Bailey those he called 
"defense." This was the case of SOS Racisme and LICRA (but those we expect nothing) but 
more distressing MRAP and LDH. Now, perhaps more than the exhibition, those are the 
reactions about these latter organizations (qualifying opponents of fundamentalists 
exposure) that made up anger.

Not only victims

The talk about the defense of freedom of expression have also set fire to the powder, 
putting in the same box opponents Exhibit B , state censorship and mobilization of 
reactionary forces for the defense of a symbolic order domination. Yet the problems of 
exposure were raised by opponents and opened a debate should take all racist (! And their 
books) which are in this exhibition slave, their arms, their whips? And where are the 
figures of the resistance? Toussaint Louverture, maroons, Zingha Queen or the Amazons of 
Dahomey? More generally, why the figures of the resistance of the colonized are unknown 
and not taught in schools alongside figures of De Gaulle, Jean Moulin Jean Jaur?s and 
other? Even unconscious in Bailey, this recurrence figures victimizers are not trivial and 
have consequences, such as black of downward vision.

Fraternalism and autonomy, eternal debate

Behind the controversy is the question of the fight by proxy that is raised, an issue that 
has a hard time in the history of anti-racism: fight oppression or underestimated, decreed 
secondary or accusation of division by the "friends "Left of immigrants and colonized. 
These have never shown that fairly unclear support then and now, since the war in Algeria, 
marches for equality, and up to the 2004 law on the veil. It is a denial of what C?saire 
called the "fraternalism 'in activist circles," because it is indeed a brother, a big 
brother who, imbued his superiority [...] takes your hand (a hand alas, sometimes rough) 
to lead you on the road where he can be Reason and Progress "[ 1 ].

The lesson from the perspective of building a broad anti-racist social front, is that 
traditional anti-racist organizations such as the MRAP and LDH will have to change. They 
will have to learn to do with the autonomous movements of racialized, consider their 
judgments. They will have to accept the changes in anti-racism today question the new 
thinking and thematic qu'avancent these movements. And conclude C?saire as "the hour of 
ourselves rang" [ 2 ]: it's a bit what has been shouted protesters against Exhibit B! In 
the same vein, it is also: "The emancipation of the workers will be the task of the 
workers themselves.?

AL Montreuil

[ 1 ] Aim? C?saire "Letter to Maurice Thorez"

[ 2 ] Aim? C?saire "Letter to Maurice Thorez"

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