By appointing a black and anti-racist historian hated by the far right to
Education, the Elysée is looking for a screen to stand out from the RN. But hewill also be more embarrassed to continue to tax the left with "Islamo-leftism".---- After the Blanquer years, the appointment of Pap Ndiaye to NationalEducation surprised. Neither one nor two, all that France has of reactionarieshas made it a scarecrow of the new Macronian mandate. However, he will be littledefended by the social and anti-racist movement, where his appointment alongsideGérald Darmanin leaves you speechless. Despite its right-wing drift targeting"Islamic separatism", Macronie at bay and under electoral pressure from Nupessurely wanted to send some signals to moderate anti-racists, as with thepantheonization of Josephine Baker in the fall of 2021. The "at the same timeMacronian time in all its glory.A specialist in African-American history, Pap Ndiaye published La Condition noirein 2007, a pioneering work in France on the issue of systemic negrophobia. Wouldhis nomination be a comparable attempt, for example, to the overtures of theDemocratic Party to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States? Notreally. The ideological background is not the same. Unlike in the United States,"decolonialism" is not mainstream in France, where even moderate figures arefiercely attacked, such as journalist Rokhaya Diallo.The "decolonial" in France has become a chimerical and conspiratorial politicaldanger, while there is no homogeneous decolonial movement. Certainly, just asthere is currently a feminist wave in the world, there is also a decolonial wavecarried by a generation that lives domination in its flesh and rejects it. It isan unavoidable fundamental movement, but crossed by contradictions anddivergences, which can go from a decolonial anarchism considering theimpossibility of getting out of racist dominations without breaking withcapitalism and the State, up to individualist strategies and liberal.Crusades in sightAnd this is indeed the main lesson of this appointment of Pap Ndiaye: theMacronian power has taken the measure of the importance of the anti-racistmovement in the world and it is anxious; he is not so sure of his"anti-separatist" and reactionary line carried by Blanquer and Darmanin. Theappointment of Pap Ndiaye, who also does not call himself "decolonial", can helphim distinguish himself from the RN. But this also creates a contradiction withinit: a handicap for taxing anti-racists as "Islamo-leftists" or "indigenous".What can Pap Ndiyae do as minister? Will he try to change school curricula tobetter integrate colonial and migratory history? The extreme right and the rightwill go on a crusade - remember the "school withdrawal days" under Hollande andthe racist attacks against Taubira - and the social and anti-racist movement willhave to fight this.For the rest, as his time at the head of the Porte-Dorée palace foreshadowed [1],Pap Ndiaye will apply Macron's ultra-liberal policy with his "school of thefuture" project. An à la carte school that will penalize first and foremost theinhabitants of working-class neighborhoods by facilitating school avoidance andsocial segregation.Nicolas Pasadena (UCL Montreuil)To validate[1]Read "Museum of immigration: decolonial dressing and union repression",Alternative Libertaire, December 2021.https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Pap-Ndiaye-un-symbole-de-l-anxiete-du-pouvoir-macronien_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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