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Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, three precious ideals, blinded by the darkness of xenophobia. The Republic, democracy and human rights are the pillars of a just society, but in the depths of Marianne, their fragility reminds us that nothing can be taken for granted. Perhaps it will be necessary to decapitate a few heads again on the Place de la Concorde, so that the age-old splendor of revolutionary France can be reborn from its ashes. Foreigners are constantly discriminated against and treated like cattle, their dignity trampled underfoot. Illegal immigrants, without a residence permit, live in promiscuity, seeking refuge in a nation that rejects them. The homeless proletarians, scattered in the streets of the homeland of human rights, are proof that equality is slow to become a reality for all. Stigmatize Africans by systematically associating them with delinquency and drug trafficking, It is to ignore the segregationist policies, applied in disadvantaged suburbs, It is choosing to look elsewhere, faced with the cruelty of France's criminal shenanigans in Africa. Racists, racialists and nationalist supremacists propagate toxic ideologies that divide rather than unite, creating deep fissures in a France with a legacy of slavery and colonialism. Negrophobic xenophobes are chained to hatred and intolerance, they despise the salutary values ??of inclusion and the riches of diversity. Enlightened pan-Africanist sub-Saharan Africans carry a vision of solidarity and continental unity, which advocates the search for the realization of Africa's potential. Terrorism, capitalism and globalism form an explosive cocktail that disrupts the balance of the contemporary world. Patriotic fascists, racialist stereotypes and colonial reflexes are infringements which hinder the evolution towards a community attached to egalitarian principles. Under the lights of the slave trade, amnesia is a medicine for all those who want to forget the past and the horrors of the dark pages of the lugubrious history of sweet France. The Code Noir gave rise to the transatlantic slave trade, and the Code of the Indigenous was the foundation on which colonization rested.

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