Je suis Ahmed—the revolution betrayed

This day, as the two before it, is a very sad one. We have witnessed fear and its massive shadows. Eighteen dead. At least two of whom had parents from a former colony, heavily disgraced and violated by its coloniser. After the second imperial war. Most likely all of the killers in this drama have experiences of exclusion, and have most likely grown up with parents who have felt racism into the bone. Whether in France or outside of her. We are all victims. What differentiate us is how we react. Ahmed Merabet, one of the police officers killed in the French drama, was French, with Algerian decent. He was doing his job, as the other police officer who was killed. They had both chosen the French, democratic state, rather than an opposing, globalised resistance group. The woman expressing her fears of 'what's going to happen to France.' The journalists. The cartoonists. I. I am a victim. And an accomplice. We all are. The French Revolution is betrayed. We disgrace the very basic, deepest human rights of of us all: the right to live in dignity. The right to show and experience respect. The French Revolution betrayed.

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