France council dismisses a journalist for her anti-racism thoughts

Paris, December 28: Racism is the worst part which somewhere rooted in this world. Racism has eroded the human rights where a person is qualified on the basis of his color. Likewise scene was seen in the country of France where a journalist was removed from the national council as she repeatedly spoke out against what she calls institutional racism in France.

This removal of the journalist named Rokhaya Diallo has erupted a bitter row over the difficulties of debating racism in the country. Diallo, 39, was one of 30 people appointed last week to France’s national digital council, the CNNum, an independent commission of digital experts. The voluntary panel was to advise the centrist president Emmanuel Macron’s government on a new, more inclusive digital policy.

The appointments were approved by the digital minister Mounir Mahjoubi – one of the few faces of ethnic diversity in government – as well as the prime minister. But the government then bowed to complaints about Diallo’s presence.

The party Les Républicains wrote an open letter to the government to complain that Diallo had in the past been outspoken on “institutional racism” in France and had supported feminist movements where black women had attended closed meetings to speak among themselves about racism and sexism.

The government swiftly appeared to kick out Diallo, promising a reshuffle in order for the body to work more “calmly”.

Diallo said she would continue to talk of institutional racism in France, citing the state citizens’ rights ombudsman who has warned against police racial profiling, saying young men perceived as Arab or black are 20 times more likely to have their identities checked. Last month, she invited the education minister to sue her for it, if he sees fit.

“When I talked of institutional racism in France, I was hugely reproached for it,” Diallo said. “The fact is that Jean-Michel Blanquer, instead of concerning himself with the racism that is produced by the state, prefers to take legal action against an expression.”