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In recent years, both in Belgium and throughout the West, examples of institutional racism
were numerous: Police violence, Islamophobia, discrimination and criminalization of
undocumented migrants. Many facts which predominantly white left, could not take the
measure to better fight them. Libertarian Alternative Brussels invites you to discuss with
Said Bouamama and Nicolas Pasadena. ---- The growth of institutional racism is
distressing, everywhere. In response, the institutional left is totally absent. His
reactions is limited mostly to moral racism condemning individual acts but refusing to see
this race domination in our societies, reproducing itself racist thinking patterns
inherited from colonization as shown by the debate on the headscarf ban in France or
adopting a paternalistic denying racialized populations to conduct their legitimate
struggle independently.
Yet the autonomous struggles of racialized for equality and justice abound. Walking to the
Black Panthers for equality and against racism, as many such moments marking the fight
against systemic racism.
At the time, Belgium, the NV-A Ministers (New Flemish Alliance) stated publicly that "the
Moroccan, Algerian or Congolese immigration is not an added value for Belgium" , at the
time also where Islamophobia appears in the Belgian newspapers in the image of the story
of Assim Abassi, or that the police murders of African-American with impunity in the
United States, it is time for the left to take the measure of institutional racism.
This awareness begins with the refusal of the racist and colonialist schemes within its
own ranks and universalist positions. It also begins to support the struggles of racis?.es
without replacing them. This must also be an anti-racist anti-colonialism because the
international system is still based on inequalities established by colonization, sits the
domination of the West while denying the self-determination of colonized peoples.
Multiple oppressions
In order to understand racism, it is the understanding globally. Indeed, there are
situations of dual or triple oppression (race, class and gender) that intersect to justify
social inequality. It is at the intersection of these dominations that some are positioned
to understand the multiple reality and fight. While class inequalities are growing by the
capitalist and neo-liberal policies in Belgium, racism serves as proof to the
ever-increasing exploitation of racis?.es
As stated Bouamama Said, "all analyzes that obscure the racist discrimination can only
become blind to the reality of neighborhoods. When afraid to say the word "race" or by
intellectual vanity is contorts to mention such inequality without naming and / or
unintentionally measure it objectively contributes to the breed. Similarly, all the
analyzes that confuse the reactions to systemic violence suffered (which of course be
wrong targets) and systemic racism and mass violence thereunder, by amalgamating the two
sub-racist term, supply voluntarily or not (the result is the same) systemic racism. Like
it or not, the class also saw so racialized in the contemporary globalized capitalism.
Recognize reality for what it is, is the first step to be able to transform it. Do you
even lift
It is this reality that we intend to understand contemporary racism and transform society
"What fights against racism? "Saturday, December 6 at 16h, at the Free University of
Brussels. Speakers: Sa?d Bouamama: sociologist, activist, co-author of the book "Fuck
France - insolence Duty" with Sa?ddou PTA Nicolas Pasadena Member of the Commission of
racism Libertarian Alternative France, author of the text "no Islamophobia in the name of
libertarian ideas. "
From http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Bruxelles-Quels-combats-contre-le
