"Everyone has some racist reflexes." : Jean-Pascal Zadi talks about the discrimination he still faces in society today

Guest of the Canal+ show as a party Tuesday, May 31, actor Jean-Pascal Zadi turned to Nathalie Levy about her career and family. He specifically used his time on the show to talk about the discrimination he felt against himself and in society at large. “It’s changed now, much more insidious, less outspoken, the look that people give you directly, familiarity. For example, I was there this weekend in Caen, signing at the Stade Malherbe, playing against Saint-Étienne, what a pride! So, I was going to Caen and to access the platforms, there was some kind of electronic door, one was open and because one was open, everyone went to the open side and I, I went to the open side and the gentleman came to see me ‘give me your ticket’ before me There were 5/6 whites going, we didn’t ask them anything. It’s the little things like that, unfortunately it’ll take a long time to come because it’s actually anchored in spite of us and everyone has a bit of racist reflexes. Racist reflexes are present not in whites, but in us, blacks, Arabs, whites, everyone.‘ said Nathalie to Lévy.

Jean-Pascal Zadi took part in the show as a party present their programs Kokoriko!, his new sketch show created in partnership with Canal+ and the Bagel studio. “Kokôrikô! What we wanted to do for this was to broaden the spectrum and question all these forms of discrimination a bit because what I’m going to say at the end may be serious but discrimination is the exclusion, the discrimination that really makes me laugh. Is it because of skin color or sexual orientation or the fact of being a woman? This is all discrimination, really, is the heart of what makes me laugh, and so for over an hour, we’re not going to do a single thing on blacks, so we opened the thing, opened the spectrum, and really, I, this is what I really like to do is question, first of all get into the minds of discriminators. .‘, he told the reporter.

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