When I found out that Mara Joly, the director who caused a stir in the scene by saying she hated white people, was going to be invited Everyone is talking about itI said to myself : “ It will brew ! Fasten your hat with a brooch ! »
After all, it’s not every day that someone makes such uninhibited comments about skin color.
But when Guy A. Lepage received the director I spoke to you about last week, he rolled out the red carpet for her without causing a stir. Hey, life is good when you’re part of the “good gang”!
- Listen to the interview with Murielle Chatelier, a citizen of the Québécois Association against Racism, on Sophie Durocher’s show QUB radio :
THE BLESSED TIME OF CONTEMPT
Many of you wrote to me saying you were shocked by Mara Joly’s comments on Rebecca Makonnen’s show. It’s not every day that someone creates such a shameful conflation by throwing all white people into the same basket.
The writer, director and co-producer of the new Noovo series After the Flood explained: “Yes, I hated white people. But I mean, I don’t think you can like white people if you live in Africa, and I think you can’t like white people if you’re African American in France. […]. You can there, you can. But it’s so violent, you know. I mean, that’s cheesy as hell. At some point you get fed up and then just think: “No safe space, bye!” » Guy A. played this excerpt on Sunday evening. Then he asked her very kindly, very gently: “Do you need to qualify or explain something?” »
FRIENDLY PHOTO
Mara Joly responded in her defense: 1. That she was not used to giving interviews: “I’m new, I’m learning a lot about the matter.” 2. That she was destabilized by the moderator’s question. 3. She spoke from the perspective of a child in the 90s: “That’s not what I think today, it’s not current.” » How did our national player Guy A. react? “In any case, I just want to say one thing to you: your series is really excellent, it’s excellent television, I congratulate you. » No sub-question? No relaunch? There was nothing written on his boxes? None of the people talking to him through his earbuds whispered a “killer question” to him? If a white director over 50 had made similar comments about Aboriginal people, do you think Guy A would have accepted his “I was surprised by the question” excuse? Do you think he would have let him say he was racist when he was young but now “it wasn’t relevant”? If your show is called “Everyone’s Talking About It” and you’re inviting people “everyone’s talking about” to talk to them about the controversy that “everyone’s talking about,” then it seems to me that the union minimum requires that you “talk about it.” “. Part of the controversy in question. It seems to me that you are not moving quickly to another call.
EVERYONE KEEP CALM
In the wonderful universe of circular thinking and kindness, anti-white racism is swept under the rug. That’s the idea we have of debate at Radio-Canada: just people who think the same way.
