Omar Slaouti: "We cannot combine our discontent with the madmen of the extreme right."
They created the Rosa Parks Collective, a feminist and anti-racist movement calling for a two-day demonstration on November 30th and December 1st. Omar Slaouti, their spokesperson, was a guest at the Midinale.
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VERBATIM
On the Rosa Parks Collective
"It's a collective that was formed several months ago, which comes from a group of associations and collectives heavily mobilized on issues of undocumented immigrants, migrants, and political anti-racism."
"The collective decided to strike to demand equal rights."
On the mobilization of November 30th and December 1st
"There's a paradox: we're extremely visible. »
"The best way to shine a light on those who are the primary targets—migrants, undocumented immigrants, Black people, Muslims, Arabs, Gypsies, Roma, people from working-class neighborhoods—is to disappear. That's the idea behind November 30th."
"This call comes from us, from those who are victims of structural racism."
"There are a few of us who believe that racism is structural, like sexism and patriarchy perhaps."
"Racism isn't just a problem for the victims, it's a problem for society."
"It's not a problem of skin color, it's a problem of social status."
On the trivialization of racism
"Some political parties use anti-racism to gain votes."
"It's more than trivializing racism, it's normalizing it." »
"We have reached a level of unacceptable normalization, and it is this level of dehumanization that we want to denounce."
On Justice
"There is a duty of subversion that must be imposed. We must no longer allow ourselves to be pushed around. We must oppose legitimacy to legality."
"We must stop making us believe these myths of the Republic, egalitarian with our hand on our heart, and then we shed big tears."
"Historically, the Republic is patriarchal, racist, and sets aside a group of citizens."
On Clichés and Discrimination
"To push back against clichés, those most affected must speak out."
"We must restore visibility to those who have been totally reified, objectified, plastered in certain places, and then outed from time to time." »
"Our anti-racism is feminist, and we believe that a consistent feminism must embrace anti-racism."
"All those who feel their personal, physical, and moral integrity is damaged must be at the forefront of those fighting."
"We reject this gradation of humanity, which would make humans relative."
On state racism
"There is a racial management of populations."
"We are fighting these social constructions of race."
"There is a society that is hierarchical and racialized."
"The management of racial profiling is part of racial management."
On the continuation of the mobilization
"We claim to remember December 1, 1955, the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of a bus. »
"We have this crazy ambition that every December 1st will be a day of strike action in solidarity with those who are victims of structural racism and social inequality."
"The collective is not a stepping stone to the elections."
"The idea is to call on the entire political class."
On the November 17th mobilization
"We're all in the same boat, the famous 99%."
"All those who suffer specific oppressions will have to be heard."
"What we're saying is that there are overall problems with neoliberalism, because people have very low purchasing power, because we're destroying public services, so there's every reason to be unhappy this November 17th."
"We can't combine our discontent with the madmen of the National Rally."