I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.
I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.
Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.