Pascal Blanchard, Historian: "Being Anti-Racist Today Is No Longer a Neutral Subject"

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The election of Bally Bagayoko, candidate of La France insoumise (LFI), to the town hall of Saint-Denis, north of Paris, was accompanied by a wave of racist remarks on certain TV sets and on social networks. Historian Pascal Blanchard, specialist of the issues of diversity and colonial fact, deciphers the springs of this sequence.

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Mathilde Panot, coordinator of the insoubted France, cast doubt on the fact that the President of the Republic "did not have a word" for the new mayor of Saint-Denis after the racist comments he heard on CNews.

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Bally Bagayoko has become a symbol in spite of him. Target of racist attacks in France, he has since his victory in the municipalities of March 2026 become in Mali the pride of a part of opinion.

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At the heart of the news for a few days or even a few weeks, Mayor LFI of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, is on all fronts. At the initiative of the rally against racism, Saturday, April 4, the newspaper is sometimes called "French Barack Obama". "Some already consider you as a French Obama, you come from this ‘New France', you are black, elected from the field," said Anne-Sophie Lapix on M6 on Sunday, April 5. Similarly, in the show En Société sur…

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Bally Bagayoko spoke about the possibility of a black president in France: a goal that needs to "break down the barriers" according to the mayor of Saint-Denis.

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At the call of the new mayor Bally Bagayoko, thousands of people gathered in Saint-Denis on Saturday. A mobilization "against racism" dominated by the demands of the unsuspecting party.