A socialist mayor from a small Walloon town (Lessines) filed a complaint against Nordine Sa\u00efdi, a founding member of Bruxelles Panth\u00e8res, a Belgian political antiracist organization which is part of the DIN \u2013 Decolonial International Network.<\/p>\n
What is the complaint about? It is actually about an e-mail sent by BP to the mayor and his town council back in September 2018 that was requesting that the local authorities take all the necessary actions to remove the BLACK FACE part of their traditional annual carnival which take place in \u201cLes Deux Acres\u201d, a part of the previously mentioned town, Lessines. The local authorities considered and still consider today that this racist show known as \u201cthe Negro parade\u201d is a harmless folklore that has no racist roots.<\/p>\n
Long story short, even if they keep denying the racist character of their party, the letter sent by Nordine Sa\u00efdi and BP had the positive effect to push the carnival organisation committee to cancel the traditional racist \u201cNegro parade\u201d.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, if they surprisingly cancelled that part of their show, they also filed a complaint against the e-mail\u2019s author.<\/p>\n
Following the work that we accomplished against Belgium BlackFace traditional practice, some politicians, as the socialist Bourgmestre of Lessines in the present case , are trying to put an end to our denunciation of racism by having a politically use of the Justice.<\/p>\n
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