Guest of "Culture Médias" for her new program "Secrets de conso" on RMC Story, the entrepreneur and host Hapsatou Sy also spoke about the television of her childhood.

She regrets the absence of positive role models embodied by black people, a problem that is resolved too slowly according to her.

INTERVIEW

How do you build yourself up and feel accepted when the television doesn't show you anyone who looks like you?

Or worse, when the only characters who look like you are systematically linked to negative stories?

Hapsatou Sy regrets and denounces in the program 

Culture Médias

, on Europe 1, the bad and the under-representation of black people on French television.

A problem that continues, according to the entrepreneur and TV host, who came to present her new show for RMC Story, 

Secrets de conso.

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His recruitment on the channel comes shortly after that of Rachid M'Barki, two faces that make RMC Story a little more representative of the diversity of the French.

But Hapsatou Sy explains that this criterion was not mentioned with the channel when he was hired.

"They were looking first for someone legitimate, that is to say who knows what he is talking about, and who is not there just to make launches", specifies the host.

"I think that my entrepreneurial history and my experience in the field, as a consumer, but also as a manufacturer were important to them. I think that they first came to seek me on these criteria."

The choice between "

Arnold & Willy

, the adopted and the thug"

Hapsatou Sy believes, however, that the emergence of non-white personalities on television is important.

“When I was a child, when I was watching television, what did I have as an example?” She asks.

"I had

Arnold & Willy

, I adopted him and I had the thug."

According to her, this lack of diversity in French television in the 1980s still persists, to a lesser extent.

"I think that in TV, at some point, we will have to integrate this question. And first of all because we have skills and because we have things to say."

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The entrepreneur and TV host spoke on the subject by answering a question about the documentary 

Regard noir

by Aïssa Maïga.

A film in which the actress and director worries about the place of black people in French cinema.

"Aïssa is someone who activates a lot, because she talks about a subject that she masters. She is in the cinema", recalls Hapsatou Sy.

"And she's right, there is a real problem in cinema today: when there are blacks, they are always confined to completely questionable roles."