An event at the European parliament featuring the French academic Maboula Soumahoro was axed after French MEPs objected, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo
aboula Soumahoro is a renowned French scholar and public intellectual. The holder of a PhD earned through studies both inand at Columbia University in the US, she is an associate professor at the University of Tours, a specialist on the African diaspora, and one of France’s foremost academics when it comes to race relations.to an internal event last month as part of a dialogue to discuss ways to “promote equality and inclusion in the workplace”, it made perfect sense.
Officially the European parliament said the event was being postponed until an unknown date, but the far right has already claimed this as a “first victory”. Another of the complaints is that in 2016 she took part in a summer camp devoted to decolonialism and that this was allegedly “forbidden to whites”.the “burden of race”. This refers simply to what anyone who is not white has to face daily in societies not built to include them, and in which they constantly face discrimination. White people are privileged in not having to handle systemic racism. The allegedly racist summer camp was intended for people who personally face racism.
The fact that two elected officials who honed their skills in such a party are now able to publicly accuse an anti-racist Black woman of challenging the “fundamental values of tolerance and respect that uphold” is an incredible inversion of reality.
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