Je peux aussi témoigner que ce qu’elle dit s’appliquait également aux métisses comme moi, la familiarité immédiate “tu” et pas “vous”, la grivoiserie facile, le harcèlement et le manque de respect etc. Cette vidéo, a été faite par cette femme en 2007 – l’année où j’ai quitté la France. Je peux vous dire que les rares fois où je suis retournée en France, on ne peut pas dire que la situation se soit améliorée… J’ai peut être moins de droits aux Emirats qu’une femme européenne blanche n’en a en Europe mais j’ai très certainement plus de droits ici que je n’en aurais jamais eu en France en tant que métisse
La justice française me reproche de ne pas retourner en Europe, notamment ne pas retourner m’établir en France – ailleurs qu’à la maison familiale parce que bien entendu, on a donné au père les enfants et la possibilité donc de vivre dans cette maison familiale. Ceci n’est d’abord pas le monde auquel j’aspirerais à retourner même si j’en avais la possibilité matérielle; une forme pas si subtile d’oppression.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPf0aRRkQm0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1THXd_HvA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64hASVjp6g&feature=related
I can also testify that what she says also applies to half breeds like me, the familiarity, immediate “tu” instead of “vous”, the jeering, the harassment, lack of respect etc. This video was in 2007 when I left France and I can tell you it did not become any better the rare times I went again to France.
I may have less rights in the UAE than a white European woman may have in Europe but I definitely have more rights here than if I were back in Europe as a “half-breed”
I am being blamed by the French justice for not going back to Europe, notably of not coming back and settling down in France. This is not what I would want to go back to, had I had the choice; a not so subtle form of oppression. Even though I explained to the judge, proved that I had searched for a job and not obtained it despite my qualifications, explained that without the job I was not allowed per their own immigration rules to come back on French, European or even Swiss soil, I was made to understand that I could compromise and accept a far less paid job, accept a very low-level job because that would be made available to me. Underlying is the unmentioned thought that, after all, that is all I should aspire to as a coloured woman.