I belong to a political organization faced with dilemmas and sometimes Cornelian choices in a very difficult ideological context in France, where political thought is policed and restrained. My paper may be perceived as provocative but I assure you that it is not. I will finally use the notion of “modernity,” which we define as the historical globality characterized by Capital, the colonial/postcolonial domination, the modern State, and the ethical and hegemonic system associated with it. For us, it means “colonial subject.” I will also use the notion of “white political field,” which means, from a decolonial perspective, the racial unity of the white political world, despite its heterogeneity and despite the structural class fracture on which it is based. It should not be understood in its etymological sense but in its historical sense. For instance, “indigenous” is such a concept. The second is that I will use concepts that might be foreign to you but that are useful political categories. It is important to keep this in mind because the academic world and the world of politics are two different worlds, and I have often had the occasion to see that researchers hope to find in the militant world extensions or confirmations of their assumptions, which rarely happens. The first is that I am neither a researcher nor an academic. I would like to start with a few precautions. And thank you to all of you for being here.
Hello and thank you to the organizers for this invitation.