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Emmanuel Macron supported on Thursday the symbolic repeal of the ‘Code Noir’, initiated by Parliament, and spoke at length about his ‘unfinished’ reflection on the sensitive issue of ‘reparations’ for slavery, which in his view primarily involve ‘recognition’ and can never be ‘total’.
Emmanuel Macron supported on Thursday the symbolic repeal of the “Code Noir,” initiated by Parliament, and spoke at length about his “unfinished” reflection on the sensitive issue of “reparations” for slavery, which in his view primarily involves “recognition” and can never be “complete.”
During a reception at the Élysée Palace for the 25th anniversary of the law recognizing the slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity, the Head of State paid tribute to a “necessary” text and its author, Christiane Taubira.
He referred to another text, the “Code Noir,” the name given to a set of royal edicts dating from the 17th and 18th centuries that organized slavery and were never formally repealed, whose maintenance, even if without legal effect, “has somehow become a fault,” “a form of offense,” “a betrayal of what the Republic is.”
