Yannick Noah, last French winner of Roland Garros, regretted Sunday "the silence" of the white sportsmen, after the death of George Floyd in the United States which started demonstrations around the world to protest against the discriminations against black Americans.
"It is an injustice that should make everyone aware"
"It's good that the young people take care of it, but what bothers me is that they are all half-breeds or blacks," said the former tennis champion, France 2 television channel, when asked about the positions of his sports compatriots Gaël Monfils, Kylian Mbappé or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on this subject. "Why? It is an injustice which should make everyone aware," he added. Relaunched on the need for "white sportsmen" to get involved on the issue, he replied: "Yes, because their silence bothers me, it goes further than that".
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#justiceforgeorgefloyd #blacklivesmatter #justiceforall enough !!!!! It's not enough to be non racist we must be Anti racist! Say it LOUD !!! Justice for Georges FLOYD and ALL !!
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"There are also young white people who do not want to live in this world"
"What reassures me as a half-breed is that fairly quickly we talk about injustice, he added, however. Yes, he's a black man, it has always happened, but then suddenly , there are also young white people, a young generation who realize that this is their own future, they do not want to live in this world. " Noah, winner of Roland-Garros in 1983 and who has just celebrated his 60 years, had already published last week a photo of him on his Instagram account, dressed in a white T-shirt where we could read "I can 't breathe, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd ".
In the video of his arrest, we hear George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American, repeating "I can't breathe" while a policeman tackles him on the ground, keeping his sound for long minutes. knee on his neck.