L'essayiste Rokhaya Diallo dénonce une caricature jugée "raciste" de Charlie Hebdo
Decolonial activist Rokhaya Diallo protested on Wednesday against a caricature published by Charlie Hebdo showing her as Josephine Baker, with a banana belt around her waist, which she deemed "racist", something the satirical newspaper denied, accusing her of "manipulation".
"This hideous drawing aims to remind me of my place in the racial and sexist hierarchy," wrote Rokhaya Diallo on the social network X, believing that this caricature was "in line with colonial imagery."
Charlie Hebdo is "incapable of confronting the ideas of a black woman without reducing her to a dancing, exoticized, supposedly savage body," she denounced.
On the same social network, Charlie Hebdo argued that this drawing, signed by its director Riss, illustrated an article from a special issue "on the gravediggers of secularism", entitled "Rokhaya Diallo, America's little sweetheart".
"Everyone will thus be able to read that we denounce the essayist's positions against the 1905 law, which she has always condemned, preferring American communitarian culture," Charlie Hebdo continues.
"Seeing a racist reference in this is a manipulation to which she has unfortunately accustomed us," the newspaper writes, accusing Rokhaya Diallo of assigning "everyone to their ethnic and religious origin, against republican universalism."
Conversely, Rokhaya Diallo felt that "the reference to Josephine Baker (is) precisely what is racist", stressing that there was "no connection" between her and the French-American singer and dancer.
Later a member of the Resistance, Josephine Baker became a star with the show "Revue nègre" (1925), where she danced wearing a banana belt.
Charlie Hebdo, whose staff was decimated by an Islamist attack in 2015, and Rokhaya Diallo have already clashed in the past over the notions of universalism and secularism, which ideologically fracture the French left.
The essayist received support on Wednesday from a large number of LFI elected officials as well as from the head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure.
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