Socialist politicians later responded by accusing the right of being 'thought police' and other rappers claimed that Black M was being targeted because of his race, not his music. Hazard says he was inundated with emails and phone-calls, many of them overtly racist.
MPs and local councillors from the far-right National Front and from the hardline wing of the mainstream right Republicans joined the clamour and called for the performance to be scrapped. and the right to participation and citizenship of all its children's, even if they have strayed'.Ī far-right website last week quoted lyrics from numbers by Black M's previous group, Sexion d'Assaut, that it claimed showed that he was 'anti-France', homophobic and anti-Semitic. 'It's still possible to review this cancellation because even the good God's pencil has a rubber,' the NGO wrote in a statement, quoting French West Indian poet and politician Aimé Césaire.Īnd it called on the government to 'use all its powers to defend the unity of French youth in its diversity.
The Mémoires et Partages (Memory and Sharing) organisation, based in Bordeaux and Dakar, on Monday called on the government to stop the cancellation of the show, which was ordered by Bordeaux's Socialist mayor, Samuel Hazard, on Friday after what he described as a deluge of hate during the week.
