“In mainland France, it happens that elected officials from Overseas and Africa are confronted with discrimination or even racist violence from their peers, including in the National Assembly or during the meeting of a municipal council.” It is to denounce this unimaginable situation in the middle of the 21st century and moreover under the nose of France, a so-called human rights country, that this open letter was addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron. It is an initiative of black organizations, encouraged and supported by personalities like Maryse Condé, alternative Nobel Prize winner for literature, as well as Julius Garvey, NegroEvolutionist, son of Marcus Garvey, father of Pan-Africanism.

“The fight against gender discrimination, anti-Semitism and racism are among your main actions. Unfortunately, negrophobic behavior and other racial discrimination or the use of systematically violent or humiliating methods are becoming commonplace and repeated in cities and in the countryside, even irrigating places where the republican principles of equality and freedom must be defended. .
In mainland France, elected officials from Overseas and Africa sometimes face discrimination or even racist violence from their peers, including in the National Assembly or during a municipal council meeting. .
To this end, we, the undersigned Civil Society and NegroEvolutionist organizations, firmly denounce the death threats and racist insults which were addressed to Emmanuel Argo, an opposition municipal representative originally from Martinique, by another elected.
During the meeting of the municipal council of the commune of Thésée 41140 located in the Loir in France, Mr. CHABAULT Gérard threatened to kill his colleague Emmanuel Argo and uttered racist remarks under the amused eye of the President of the meeting, the Mayor CHARLUTEAU Daniel, himself supported by other municipal councilors boasting of having voted in favor of a National Rally deputy from the Loir constituency and Dear Roger CHUDEAU.
The racist, threatening and insulting actions of Gérard CHABAULT had already taken place in council during the COVID pandemic, and because Mayor Daniel CHARLUTEAU had dissuaded him, he had not apologized.
Mr. President Emmanuel Macron, the violence, physical or verbal, committed against certain elected officials of the Republic, therefore does not come only from those administered.
Faced with the societal changes and chaos currently affecting several nations in the world, France is still asserting its political will to accept differences, whether religious, ethnic origins, gender and skin color, this living together and this secularism which has always been a national will which until now gave it credibility. However, we note that this posture is part of the “double standards” inherited from the time of the colonies. Many lessons are addressed to the rest of the world, lessons that France struggles to apply itself.
In one year, we will reach the end of the International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024, a United Nations proclamation aimed at celebrating and recognizing the people of the Antilles, the Caribbean, the North America, the Central America, South, Indian Ocean. These populations have in common that they all come from colonization, trade and wicked slavery practices governed by the Black Code of Sieur Colbert, Minister of Louis XIV. The France that you currently preside over derived its rank and power from this sad period in its history.
If the proclamation of the United Nations was the subject of demonstrations in other countries such as the USA, it is clear that in France they will have been very confidential, but the nationals of your ex-colonies, now called regions or territories overseas who are still governed from Paris, remain for what they are, not French in their own right but French entirely apart. These “pieces of territory” scattered across the various oceans of the planet nevertheless give France second place in the world Exclusive Economic Zone.
Where have the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and the motto of Liberty-Equality-Fraternity gone? The French people need their president to regularly remind them of what they owe to Afro-descendants during the two world wars.
The historical Afro-descendant diasporas and those resulting from migrations, added to the nationals of the 5 regions of continental Africa, form the Africa Mundus, that is to say a geostrategic entity thus named by Emmanuel Argo, also author of the concept of NegroEvolution. We, all the signatories of this open letter, support Emmanuel Argo, this defender of colonial reparations due to Afro-descendants, just as he recently pleaded in Baku, Azerbaijan, from July 3 to 6, 2023 at the invitation of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit.
In conclusion, we, civil society organizations and NegroEvolutionists, denounce the shortcomings of France confronted with its own contradictions by tricking “with its own laws” as Aimé Césaire already said in substance in his Discourse on Colonialism.
To paraphrase Marcus Garvey, grandson of slaves and father of Pan-Africanism, we will say that the importance of our historical and contemporary diasporas deserve more than the recognition of France and other colonial empires.
If as NegroEvolutionists for the most part, we favor the culture of living together for lasting Peace, from now on, we will never stop reminding the world that the colonial empires, including France, must also enforce their constitution by protecting their citizens, will not be exempt from paying reparations owed to Afro-descendant populations.
As Maryse Condé says: “Let’s look to the future, beautiful things will happen tomorrow, tomorrow will be beautiful.” This is all up to you.
Please accept, Mr. President, the expression of our distinguished greetings.”

PS: non-exhaustive support

1-International Movement for Reparations (MIR) Martinique

2-International Committee for Reparations (CNR) Martinique

3-Representative Council of French Overseas (CREFOM)

4-International Committee of Black Peoples (CIPN)

5-European Haitian Diaspora Summit Committee (COSDHE)

6-Movement for a New Humanity (MNH)

7-United Movement of Haitians Living in Haiti and Abroad (MOUHVHE)

8-Collective of Daughters and Sons of Deported Africans (COFFAD)

9- Dr. Julius Garvey. Dean of the Africa Mundus network and Chairperson of the Marcus Garvey Foundation

10-SOAD/ Dr. Louis-Georges Tin, Prime Minister State of the African Diaspora

11-Sylvie Condé, Afro-descendant and support of NégroEvolution

12-Falla Ensa-N’Dayma. Africa Mundus network Representative and Regional Secretary-General/ Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, of the Makona Organization

13-Vicky Hendrick. Africa Mundus network Representative Namibia and Botswana

14- Dr. Colins Imoh. Africa Mundus Diaspora network Representative for the United Kingdom

15- Prof. Elvis. Africa Mundus Diaspora expert, specialist in conflict resolution / Ambazonian’s of Cameroon

16-Parliamentarians

17- Collective of solidarity lawyers

Representative of the Africa Mundus network in Japan