Funny conference!


It is amazing what kind of realities you can encounter at this conference.
This conference aims to make the clearest recommendations to the governments in order to put an end to racism. But about what kind of racism are we talking?

Well, here the opinions are rather divided according to the causes that one is defending. Everybody is trying his/her best with reason to plea for his/her own paresh.

At this subject, the gypsies made a big impression on me. We have seen one of their representatives, introducing the subject 'policies and practice of the struggle against racism' who centred the whole introduction around the defence of the cause of the gypsies! The chairman thanked her and the public applauded. Long live the cause of the gypsies! It is true that until now she had had no opportunity to be heard. However, this change of subject cannot be justified. How come the chairman, a Black, did not take advantage of his function to bring forward the cause of the Blacks?

At this point, the quarrel between them and the Jewish representatives was to be expected.

Indeed, the Blacks get carried away by their desire to get acknowledgement of their two Holocausts (slavery/abuse of Blacks and colonialism) as crimes against humanity and justifying European excuses and compensations (and Arabs, for slavery/abuse of Blacks), as much as the criminalization or total negation or minimalisation of these black dramas.

Certain relevant symmetries and asymmetries with the anti-Jewish racism and the sensibilisation to lead to a clear recommendation to the European governments from the Forum of the NG0's for the recognition of these black dramas and everything connected. Only, this proximity of causes seems to have displeased our Jewish friends present in this working group on this sensibilisation.
One of them has not hesitated to minimise the drama of colonialisation and even came up with some positive aspects of this.

Really, as has been revealed in the working group, certain formation programs should be addressed to their formators, and to all who fight against racism as well, to make the struggle more open and concerning ALL FORMS of racism. We should work all together.

All equal, all different, all treated in the same way!


Mutombo Kanyana
Regards Africains
Geneva, Switzerland.