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Jean d'Amérique victim of a facies check: "I live daily with this anxiety"
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Jean D'Amérique, Haitian writer and poet, winner of the RFI Théâtre 2021 prize for "Opera dust".
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By: Daniel Vallot Follow
The Haitian poet and playwright Jean d'Amérique recounts yet another police check in Paris motivated by the color of his skin.
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Another so-called identity check: in a crowd of white people heading for the metro, two cops stop me to search me.
I ask why they want to control me and not the others.
“We choose who we want, that's how it is,” they reply.
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– Jean D’Amérique (@Jeandamerique) July 19, 2022
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