Every Saturday for almost fifteen weeks, it's the same refrain in the Star Academy : glitter on stage and a wave of hatred on the Internet. While this Saturday, January 25, the finale of the 12th season of the TF1 show is playing out, which combines reality TV and a singing competition, pitting young Ebony and Marine against one another, racism is raging on social networks against the former, a black candidate. of Martinican and Guadeloupean origin. Criticism of the 20-year-old – and calls to lose her – is exacerbated by racist remarks such as “vote everything, except for the macaque”, “I don’t want to see this monkey anymore”, or even “it's not Star Academy, It’s Bamako.”
On Wednesday January 22, SOS Racisme announced that it had filed a complaint for the “wave of racist and sexist hatred” of which Ebony is a victim. Added to this on Friday was another complaint from the association La Maison des potes, which had been received by the vice-president of the Ile-de-France region Patrick Karam, former interministerial delegate for equal opportunities for the French. overseas.
Already in December, after being questioned by numerous Internet users, TF1 and Endemol – producer of the show – published a press release to denounce “hateful remarks” addressed to the young woman on social networks
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