Cecile Djunga on January 5, 2021 in Brussels at the end of the trial of a man accused of racist insults against him -
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The video in which she denounced, with emotion, the racism of which she is a victim, has been seen millions of times.
Two years later, Cécile Djunga, Belgian presenter, turned her grief and anger into energy to fight racism.
“I didn't feel like an activist and I didn't feel the strength to carry this fight to myself, to be a flag bearer.
(…) I didn't feel up to it and I was very scared.
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But the positive messages she received, far from the "dirty negress" and others "return to your country" to which she had had to get used, made her want to actively combat racism.
"You have to be anti-racist"
Cécile Djunga was invited to the United Nations, became ambassador of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and participates in numerous campaigns in favor of the fight against discrimination.
She also explained, in an open letter to Caroline Désir, Minister of Education of the Wallonia-Brussels federation, the need to reform the teaching of colonial history in Belgium.
“From the moment we understand the other's story, we come to respect them better.
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"Today we realize that it is no longer enough to be non-racist, you have to be anti-racist," says Cécile Djunga.
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