Lhe ACTe memorial, opening on July 7, 2015 after being inaugurated by François Hollande on May 10, displays the ambition to offer a place dedicated to the collective memory of slavery and the slave trade, the first to which the state provides funding. To satisfy its aim of being the largest in the world, a sumptuous architecture adorns its project, described as silver roots for a black box. My present forum opens this black box, which very unfortunately informs us of an Afrocidal content in the service of the celebration of a memory based on privileges, those of whiteness. This memorial, built on the archetype of the savage black man whose imperishable debt to white and Christian civilization is that of his redemption, appears much more as a morbid complex of collective memory than as the supposed place of gathering to avoid oblivion. In a conception of the past falsified by so many caricatures of the present, the capture of black by white persists, slipped insidiously into a mythification of the latter's superior and generous attributes.
Break point so with this supremacism white, for the black and white peoples concerned by an emancipation from the alienations with which they are affected today, each at their own level, some with the burden of the victim, others with that of the victim. In this memory built on a mystifying mode of social domination, this memorial is fully that of the enactment of coloniality.
In the social reproduction of a silver box with white roots, thanks to the ACTe Memorial mental chains will never break.
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