I was thinking how in the US through specific periods/events e.g. Antebellum, Jim Crow, school to prison pipeline...so you can easily see the morphing of whiteness across time, how as a French woman it is so very difficult to concretise the evolution of anti-blackness in France

There is no widely known/named/ sectioned time period/ events to track the evolution of anti-blackness on French soil, and it makes it a lot harder to study the phenomenon.

I think this is also why white French folks like to think they are more egalitarian & less racist than the US ians. They will use the US as a comparator & say, there’s never been Jim Crow here. We had no lynchings in France ect...it’s partly true. The histories are not comparable

However, there is something so pathologically dissociative in the omission of the violence France was carrying out in the colonies which was arguably much worse (numerically) if not at least comparable in gruesomeness & horror than what the US was inflicting on its black citizens

And this is the point I wanted to make. I think the same process applies to the U.K., where sadistic violence is/was carried out & ordered (in the main) vicariously, from a distance, on a different/separate site & how this feeds this split & dissociative amnesia.

And because of that the violence was not directly (in the main) carried out on mainland France soil, although it was carried out by France, it is more easily disowned & erased from France MST history. So of you try to speak of anti-blackness while French...

Folks think you’re not only talking about a different period, you are talking about a different context/location if not country. This displacement of France’s violent racist & colonial history is very odd.

So when you to speak of racism/anti-blackness, you will be told you are not American, stop acting like France is the US, you’re trying to bring US issues to France. It is peculiar to France, I think. Where black French who speak of racism are often accused of americanising France