Paris mayor slams black feminist event
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THE mayor of Paris has strongly criticized and is threatening to cancel an upcoming festival for black feminists where four-fifths of the event space will be open only to black women.
In a series of angry tweets on Sunday, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she would call on authorities to prohibit the three-day cultural festival scheduled for July. Hidalgo also said she might prosecute its organizers on grounds of discrimination.
“I firmly condemn the organization of this event in Paris (that’s) ‘forbidden to white people,’” Hidalgo wrote.
France defines itself as a country united under one common national identity, with laws against racial discrimination and to promote secularism to safeguard an ideal that began with the French Revolution.
The program for the first annual Nyansapo Festival, which is set to run July 28-30 at a Paris cultural center, states that 80 percent of the event will only be accessible to black women.
Other sections will be open to black men and “racialized women,” while one space is open to all races.
Organizers hope the festival will travel around Europe in coming years and said on the event’s website that “for this first edition we have chosen to put the accent on how our resistance as an Afro-feminist movement is organized.”
Prominent French rights organization SOS Racism was among civil rights groups condemning the festival, because it wallows in ethnic separation, whereas anti-racism is a movement which goes beyond race.”
The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), called the festival a “regression” and said American civil rights icon “Rosa Parks must be turning in her grave.”
Last week, several women attempting to stage a “burkini party” were jailed in Cannes after a ban against the full-body beachwear favored by some Muslim women was upheld in a fresh decree.
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