Mr. Thuram, in 2008 you founded the “Éducation contre le racisme” foundation, which deals with anti-racist educational work. What was your motivation? Was there a key moment? What we do often has to do with our own biography. When you’re called a “dirty black guy” as a child, you don’t understand why people do things like that. Or why the Arabs and the blacks are always immediately suspected when something is stolen in the locker room. My mother then said to me: “That’s just the way it is, Lilian. People are racist, that won’t change.”
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