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The tributes rain after the death of the American novelist Toni Morrison. Yes, American novelist! Because being fiercely hostile to any distinction of race or skin color, I can not bring myself to write: "black American novelist". In France, the tributes are more numerous, and more poetically moving, than elsewhere. Even the head of state went there with his shocked statement.
It does not appear, subject to further research, that the Queen of England, the German President, the King of Spain, the King of the Belgians or the Italian Head of State have felt the need to salute the memory of Toni Morrison.
But maybe I'm doing Macron a bad one? For a long time, we have colonized part of Africa and we would therefore have a debt to blacks. No doubt, but Britain has colonized the other part of the African continent. Why is Elizabeth II silent then?
But in France the nothing-thought (the expression is Elizabeth Levy) believes that Black is beautiful and White is ugly. So to be well seen, it is appropriate to greet the memory of the "black novelist" who has just died.
In good logic, and to be well seen, Muriel Pénicaud sacrificed to this ritual. With a polemic phrase: "Tribute to a great lady, writer, poet and activist, thanks to her, the blacks have finally been able to enter through the big door in literature".
His remarks were considered racist and offensive. Because they implied that before Toni Morrison the blacks (unlike Mrs. Penicaud I write with a big "n") were not able to write a book. The storm was such that the Minister of Labor was forced to erase her tweet. For my part, I do not detect in his statement any trace of racism. Just that, enormous, stupidity that requires to be well seen that it is necessary to dip his fingers in the holy water of anti-racism.
Muriel Penicaud has certainly never read a single book by Toni Morrison. It does not matter: she is not the only one. But why did not she have the frankness of Fleur Pellerin who confessed, when Modiano received the Nobel Prize for literature, that she had never read a book about him? Given her duties, Madame Pénicaud should content herself with reading and relentlessly reading the Labor Code!
Let's remind the "morrisonniens" of circumstance some names. James Baldwin and Chester Himes for the United States, Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 (well before Toni Morrison) for Nigeria. He wrote in English not in Yoruba. Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor – member of the French Academy – for France.
It has been a long time since blacks entered the great door into the history of literature. But those who claim to discover it with Toni Morrison have neither memory nor culture. In their frenzy, they are perfectly capable of changing the music theory where a white is worth two black … As I have a special predilection for Chester Himes, one of the most enjoyable authors of the black series, a quote from him to forget our hexagonal idiots . "Every human being, regardless of race, nationality, religion, is capable of anything and everything."
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