Many French museums and institutions have proclaimed 2021 as the “Year of Napoleon” and have scheduled dozens of events
According to RT, University of Virginia professor Marlene Dout writes in an article for The New York Times that “French institutions should pay more attention to the national history of slavery rather than honour a symbol of white supremacy”.
“As a black woman of Haitian descent and researcher of French colonialism, I find it particularly offensive that France plans to honour the man who restored slavery in the French West Indies, the architect of modern genocide, whose troops created the gas chambers to destroy my ancestors”, – she adds.
Dout also accuses Paris of “not combating the legacy of the colonisers”, while hundreds of monuments have been dismantled in other European countries and in the US over the past year.
“French leaders should investigate why a country with the national motto ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ continues to glorify Napoleon, a racist and genocidal warmonger”, – the professor concludes.