My name is Lea. I’m 20 years old, and I’m part of this generation that wants to change the world.
Racism exists absolutely everywhere.
I grew up near Lyon and witnessed many racist acts.
How can you get up one morning and say, “I’m going to go and put pig heads on the land bought to build a mosque”? How can anyone perform such an abominable act?
How can you tell your friends that and make them laugh?
HOW CAN YOU JUDGE SOMEONE BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN?
“You’re black, you’re dirty, you can’t play with us”, words of one of my classmates, 2008.
In 2010, Jean-Paul Guerlain stated “For once, I started working like a nigger. I don’t know if niggers have always worked so hard, but I mean… »
He later explained: “I wanted to make the journalist laugh and I regret it…I am anything but racist. »
HOW CAN YOU JUDGE SOMEONE BY THEIR RELIGION OR THEIR ROOTS?
“You Jew face, you should be dead.”
“F*****g Asian bastard, I’ll kill you”, Galliano, 2010.
“An Arab can’t swim,” the words of a police officer to a man who was arrested, 2020.
“Grocery clerk calls 911. He describes Floyd as “terribly drunk” and not having “self-control”.
The police officer receiving the call asks three times about Floyd, “What race is he?”, “Is he white, black, native American, Hispanic, Asian?” May 25, 2020.
George Floyd, like so many others sadly, died because he was black.
It’s 2020 and racism continues.
We must act. It is impossible to stand still in the face of so much unwarranted cruelty.
Why can’t we live in a world of peace?
Why isn’t mixing allowed when it brings so much to everyone?
Different cultures, different beliefs, different practices, with one thing in common: we are all human.
Let’s now talk about the equality between men and women for which we have been fighting for so long.
No, it still doesn’t exist, contrary to what many might think.
We are, I believe and hope, on the right track.
But too many inconsistencies remain.
INCOME INEQUALITY
Here are the testimonies of two colleagues working in the same bank.
Aline has more seniority in this position than Bernard, and has a higher level of education than Bernard.
However, she earns 2.02€ less per hour.
A difference which to date represents more than 35 000€.
Why? Because Aline took maternity leave, she’s paying for it.
Bernard even saw his salary increase when he had children.
PARENTAL LEAVE
14 days (maximum) only for a man, and that doesn’t seem to shock anyone.
In Sweden, it is up to 480 days, 273 in Norway, or 238 in Denmark.
Why not in France?
Why does it always have to be the woman who puts her professional career on hold?
Why does the man have to put his family life on hold?
Why don’t we let the parents decide?
There are still so many other inequalities that I could mention: political, cultural, sporting, domestic, educational and other inequalities.
I would like to talk about so many other things that revolt me, but I will be dead before I have finished stating them all.
Let’s make a difference in the world.