This is a loose translation of the above quote, with my own comments interspersed. Pascal Sevran is a French TV host. In his latest book, “Le Privilège des Jonquilles,” he says, “The black man’s dick is responsible for hunger in Africa.”Propos de Pascal Sevran: un dérapage inadmissible.
Dans un entretien à Var matin, publié mercredi 6 décembre, l’animateur de télévision, Pascal Sevran, est revenu sur son dernier livre “Le privilège des jonquilles” où il écrivait: “La bite des noirs est responsable de la famine en Afrique”.
Pascal Sevran, a déclaré : “Et alors ? C’est la vérité ! L’Afrique crève de tous les enfants qui y naissent sans que leurs parents aient les moyens de les nourrir. Je ne suis pas le seul à le dire. Il faudrait stériliser la moitié de la planète ! “.
Le Parti socialiste condamne fermement ces propos, véritable apologie du racisme et de l’eugénisme. Nous demandons également à Patrick de Carolis, Président de France Télévisions, de sanctionner sévèrement leur auteur, dont les déclarations réitérées ne sont pas compatibles avec sa participation au service public de l’audiovisuel.
Nicolas Sarkozy doit aussi dire publiquement s’il se désolidarise de Pascal Sevran, qui compte parmi ses soutiens les plus actifs.
Communiqué de Faouzi Lamdaoui,
Secrétaire national adjoint à l’Egalité et au Partenariat équitable
When you hear that for the first time you go… what?, and you try for a second reading. When asked to clarify such an outrageous statement, he said, “So what? It’s the truth! Africa is dying due to all these children being born to parents who have no means of feeding them. I’m not alone to say so. We’re gonna have to castrate half the planet!”
The above quote is from the website of the French Socialist party. The rest of the article just condemns Mr. Sevran and asks him to come out and apologise, as well as Mr. Sarkozy, a presidential hopeful backed by Mr. Sevran.
It took me a while to decide to blog this, and now that I’ve decided to go ahead, I find I have no steam to go full force against Pascal for what he said. My original reluctance of definitely-not-worth-it has come flooding back; and so I’ll leave it at this. The one thought that does keep bugging me, coming back, this little whispering voice in my head, is, “Wow… now they want to slice our dicks off.” Niger has done better than me, Niger has hauled Pascal’s ass to court. His employer has also asked him to apologise or quit.




I use to religiously challenge such hatemongers with letters to the editors and any other form of protest against them. I have come now to believe the better approach is to ignore them and use the engergy instead to encourage and support those things in the world I want to see happen more often. Better payback.
Comment by nadia — 6 January 2007 @ 7:18 pm
Shocking. We must not remain silent again a man like Pascal Sevran. That he has a public voice requires that we speak AND act against him. Edmund Burke’s words “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” says it all.
Comment by annieelf — 7 January 2007 @ 9:23 pm
What I know about African politics can fit in a thimble but hate speech is the same the world over. On the positive side Pascal only wants to “sterilize” half the planet somewhat less extreme than castration. If prospects for the poor improved the birth rates would go down naturally.
Comment by Sarala — 8 January 2007 @ 4:09 pm
It’s interesting that I have not heard anything about this racist idiot Pascal Sevran in the German press or media considering the intense coverage of the riots in France by the networks here and the U.K. reality-TV program Big Brother racism scandal being plastered across our TV screens this week. Sevran should not be asked to quit his job with France TV2, he should have been fired by the network on the spot…and stripped of his national medals by French President Jacques Chirac personally.
TIME magazine picked up this story and published an article about Pascal Sevran and other French personalities toying with racist rhetoric and idealologies before the French public these days. Read the January 6, 2007 TIME article “Racism Unfiltered in France” by Bruce Crumley:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1574817,00.html
Who knows, perhaps xenophobia and racial slurs against black people has become ‘Tres Chic’ in France again. I hope the latest craze from Paris doesn’t spread beyond France’s borders.
Comment by Black River Eagle — 19 January 2007 @ 2:30 pm
he makes a fine point. It’s not racist - there is a problem when a country is overpopulated. Unfortunately everywhere will be the same soon and anarchy will reign
Comment by steve — 21 August 2009 @ 5:46 am