I would like to tell you a story
the story of a little boy I have
well known father of his father his
paternal grandfather so was
Tunisians arrived in France as
others in the 50s as
worker his father’s mother was
Brittany of Brest please
worker also maternal side the
father of his mother was Guadeloupe
English-born black officers
mariners and oceanographers the mother of
his mother his darling grandma was
Guadeloupe also black she
also but of Native American origin
why am I telling you this story
well I tell you because she
sums up our history of France
a story that combines
proletarians and bourgeois slaves and
enslaved colonist and colonizer
not easy to know who we are with
Such genealogy not easy
to build a serene identity
in our postcolonial societies
the boy I’m talking to you had a
little brother same father same mother
same education
the eldest has done brilliant studies and
could choose his life in particular
professional the second left him
school at 16 without qualification
without diploma without horizon and
he put a number of years
before finally finding his place in
through the theater one was it more
intelligent than the other obviously no
simply control is codes
school the other not one could
receive some form of recognition from
system the other not yet
the essential connected his two brothers
the main thing was first of all the same
questioning about their identity
the same question on their place
in the society
the same need for meaning and also a
even need to feel useful
the two children I told you about
it was my brother and me there
now almost ten years old we are
launched in the creation of a small
cultural mission to the Association
cities of gold and to our surprise
we realized that the
people with whom we
work participants
workshops shared the same
problematic that ours the same
questioning about their identity
the same question on their place
in the society
the same need of meaning the same need
to feel useful and to be recognized
as such
almost all had had
quite rugged felt helpless in
as a person and disarmed as
that citizen from where a question that has
imposed on all of us and to which we
wanted to answer all together
this question is the following
what is needed what
his age
whatever its situation for
become actor actor of his life actors
of the society
and finally we answered
try anyway and we have
identified together five human pillars
five sets of knowledge to know
and to know how to be of whom we all
need
you give your tongue to the cat or not
Yes or no
good so I go first pillar
argued a point of view is entered
in a short debate convince without
manipulate nor be manipulated second
that he found the info escaped to
the third pillar intoxier weave the link
cultivate our human relations
fourth pillar be at peace with
oneself grow enough
self-confidence and self-awareness
last pillar finally understand the
functioning of the world in which
I want to express myself
to learn to weave the link
to accept oneself understand one’s environment
five pillars that we explore on a daily basis
through what was called the school
so what is it
that a school truant but school
is an adventure
collective for several months a
ten participants will learn
to know each other share tools of
life led projects together
collectives obviously think of their
role of citizen and meet
inspiring personalities
for example a minister of justice
in the middle of a debate on marriage for all
for example a director of drawings
animated absolutely passionate who had to
wait, do you stand well 50 years and
some wheelbarrows and eat a lot of
stale bread before meeting a
planetary glory with cartoon
kirikou
I could talk to you too
of sports intellectuals
of entrepreneurs all that to tell you
that we are in an adventure
individual but we are also in a
forgiveness adventure a collective adventure
but also an individual adventure
this individual adventure she’s going
first of all, to wonder about
its relation to oneself am I authentic
is there in my daily adequacy
between my thoughts my words and my
acts but we can be perfectly
authentic and be a perfect bastard
thought like a bastard talk like a
bastard act like a bastard and be
perfectly aligned
hence the need to question
his relationship to others am I just
just in the sense of justice of
the asymmetry of reciprocity
but also just in the sense of accuracy
Am I well adjusted to
people I interact with
in my daily life
but we can be perfectly right
and be perfectly lost from where the
need to question his
relation to the world to the whole of
real
am i true that she without showdown at the
life in general and to my life in
particular what meaning to give to the
society
what meaning to give face history
question this individual adventure
it will also consist of
participants to reclaim a
identity and finally to meet with
people who live on another
planet as mine some examples
truthful
a teenager with a young grandmother of 58
years old with a doctoral student
international law
a convinced believer with an alt and
activist for years I rub shoulders
these people and these people she
I think obviously invites a
a number of things
the first thing is that I learned
with them as I learned
with my little brother that people
need as much direction they
need bread and water the meaning is
first a direction to which
turned his gaze and his efforts under
trouble to grope blindly in
existence the meaning is also the
meaning that everyone will give to
this direction and finally the meaning it’s
the ability for everyone to embody
all this in his daily life in the
singularity of his life but that sense
where do we find it today?
at school at work in the debate
public
I’ll let you answer this
question these people the fact of them
rub
it also led me to wonder about
the concept of inserting two things
insertion are first of all
people people often
remarkable who do a job
necessary difficult and badly
recognized by society
but insertion is also a system
it is also a logic it is also a
philosophy
people have to be greeted and
thanked for the work they do
daily
the system, on the other hand, deserves
doubt to be questioned again
let’s stop for a moment on the term
same insertion the individual is a
little cog a little bolt that has to
fit into a mega machine that the
exceeds and who gives him his reason
to be
can the individual transform this
machine
frankly is what you would have idea
to ask such a question a night life
a bolt but beyond the word to what
it rhymes to do today
professional insertion the condition
of social integration in a period
of mass unemployment brief my feeling
is that this system is dedicated to
failure
if they do not tackle frontally
a fundamental question
this question is the rootedness of
people the sense of belonging
participation in a community
human is not a matter first
economic or material it is first
a matter of meaning is rooting
rooting what is it
rooting is first this
ability to fit into the story
with a big h
and in all those little stories that
we precede rooting this is the
proud to extend low prices that
was conducted before me and for me
it does not matter that these fights
have resulted in victories or
by defeats
rooting is being able to say I
am humanity I am the society
not by pathological megalomania
obviously that humanity society
do not boil down my little person
on the other hand through each of my
choice
even the most insignificant through
me humanity his face the face the
society is redrawing itself through each
of my choices
you’ll tell me it’s nice all
that but we need what for
root
I will answer you that we need
something that is as solid and
as fragile as auch and breath
this thing is the recognition the
recognition his assets were or
to be loved be recognized in flesh and
in bone because it’s you because
it’s me no other reason again
otherwise there is no self-confidence
nor trust in each other the
recognition is the certainty of
have the same rights and the same
duties than others without which there
has neither self-respect nor respect for
other recognition is everything
stupid
it’s feeling good to have
the feeling of contributing even
modestly to the collective adventurous
otherwise there can be no esteem
of self which has a very
many years is missing from my little one
brother nor feeling of participation in
the society
my last word will not be a
conclusion is rather an opening and
this opening she holds in one word
reconciliation
we are a big country we do
face today challenges
extraordinary and my dream my wish
my fight too is that all together
with the cities of gold and with so much
others we can contribute to
a broad reconciliation policy
in France to reconcile us between
we between French origins of
cultures of different beliefs
not to think in the same direction
because it would be absurd but for
try to push in the same direction
to reconcile us with ourselves
and try to go beyond
contradictions that tear us apart at
daily between the producer and the
consumer the citizen the inhabitant of the
planet that coexist in each
of us to reconcile ourselves
finally with the world a world where do
let’s not forget the colonial injury is
still open and where the planet is at
breathless
short let’s insert for the
bolts and growing their mans roots
for people and as the other would say
it’s not because things are
impossible that we undertake
not because we undertake
not that they seem impossible
Thank you
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