"I CAN'T BREATHE." These are the last words of Henry Nowak, an 18‑year‑old British student who was stabbed five times, who agonised for more than an hour, handcuffed, in the presence of police. Why was he arrested and not helped? Because his attacker, the one who stabbed him, accused him of racism. The same words, spoken by George Floyd, have circled the world. And we were told to kneel down to apologise. WHO WILL APOLOGISE FOR HENRY? Henry was white and accused of racism; he could only be the aggressor. That accusation, that word, was apparently even more serious than the knife blows – real, after all, and ultimately lethal – that he received. It is the same logic that led in the United Kingdom to make invisible the victims of "grooming gangs," rapists most often Pakistani. It is the same logic that leads in France to ignore or dismiss anti‑white and anti‑French racism, as in the case of the Crépol tragedy.__📲 Share on X!
Translated from French, view original