A poster by the famous Alsatian illustrator is installed in a place intended to combat discrimination among schoolchildren. The satirical poster bothers some mediators who reported it. Management did not consider it urgent to replace her. A conflict of generations and sensitivities.
Maud de Carpentier (Mediapart)
Published on December 26, 2024 ·
Printed on December 26, 2024 at 7:43 a.m. ·
5 minutes
Nina discovers the Equality Space of the city of Strasbourg in 2023. She is then employed as a temporary mediator, working with children. She leads workshops there to get them to think about issues of discrimination. This place, unique in France, offers an educational and interactive journey over nearly 830 square meters in the Port-du-Rhin district. The principle: a mini-city with reproductions of a court or a town hall, where children deconstruct the 26 criteria of discrimination punishable by law.
« Seeing the white supremacist struggle and the struggle for civil rights on an equal footing was, for me, indecent. »
Nina, temporary mediator of Espace Equality
Very quickly, the 34-year-old noticed a black and white poster by Tomi Ungerer. Created in 1967 by the Alsatian illustrator and entitled Black Power, White Powerthe poster is designed like a playing card. It represents two characters, one black and one white, head to tail, who devour each other. For Nina, who discovers the poster without any explanatory notes, nor any training to talk about it to children, the discomfort is immense.
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