But we’re all anti-racist!

BUT WE’RE ALL ANTI-RACIST is a little phrase pronounced by Roger Nols, Mayor of Schaerbeek, who was the first to stop the registration of foreign residents in his electoral territory. The slogan introduces us into the heart of the debate where speeches and facts, sentiments and realities lead to a fuzzy confusion between “immigrants” and “immigration”. Immigrants banished from politics, immigrants as hostages to the problem of unemployment, a burlesque electoral campaign; these are the themes approached via an almost always contrapunctual image. Taking advantage of the 1982 electoral campaign, Thierry ODEYN reads between lines, lets Mr. Everybody say his peace, especially those who have begun to sympathize with neo-fascist parties. The camera work and editing also gives a glimpse of how the radio, in a weekly program “Du sel sur le queue”, dealt with the campaign. Finally the program asks: “Is democracy which votes to the “right” really a democracy?”