We are in 2025 

Today I am in front you for talk about a large part of our history.

60 years ago Black woman and man have fought for the equality between the black-skinned and white-skinned.

Lots of black-people wese abused, killed, lynched by the white people .This created a big trauma.

And men, women like Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Billie Holiday (Strange Fruit) are revolted.

Today the fight isn’t over, we can see marks of racism in schools, jails (Prison Breaks), at work.

Wake up, if you see racism, you will have to defend the person. 

The flowers are dead, but they are preserved as souvenirs. Let’s remind it .

Like insult, inequality, brutal treatment, isolation, superiority on a black-skinned by a white-skinned.

Wake up the number of the stars dead in the sky we see. They remind you they are eternal.

You have to fight brothers, sisters, and be proud of your inheritance, don’t be a shamed.

Wake up, the news are waiting our awaken.

We have to affirm who we are.

Like Rosa Parks who had decided to stand against the segregation laws. She had refused to give her seat.

Thanks to her, she had destroyed the first Jim crow laws.

We are in 2025, and we will take example on this figure of our history. Racism has to be stop. The racist jokes ,the exclusion of coloured people and the rivalry enter the black and white.

Alicia Chateau 3e B

JUST ONE WORD 

I am speaking to the whole population. Have you not noticed? Black people have been treated as if they were invisible. Their dreams had stayed dreams, and their rights had been taken away. And why? All because of a skin color.

We must react.

We must change the lows.

Because everyone deserves justice and freedom.

We ask for equality; but this word is not understood by everyone. For us, equality means “everyone must have the same rights and duties” but for them, it rather means “separate but equal”.

Rosa Parks had refused to give up her sit.

Martin Luther King had spoken about a dream.

Emmett Till had smiled to a white woman.

And they had been punished.

But these actions had inspired millions of people, and they still inspire us today.

We must be united, black and white, hand in hand, heart to heart.

Let our voices rise like thunder.

This fight will be won, not tomorrow, but today.

So yes, just one word is enough: We want EQUALITY.

AURORE XOTTO 3E

Breaking the Chains of Injustice

Ladies and gentlemen, Today, I speak to you in the name of justice and equality. Segregation laws were imposed not to bring peace, but to divide people—to create a society where some are stripped of their rights simply because of the color of their skin. This must stop now! Our fight is for everyone. In the past, we had been inspired by key events. Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat on a bus, and her courage had sparked a historical movement. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education had shown that equality could triumph despite great challenges. These moments gave us the strength to stand up and demand justice today. Segregation is not just a law; it is a wall that blocks us from progress. But, like all walls, it can be destroyed by our unity and determination. We know that fear divides, but hope unites. Together, we march. Together, we fight. Together, we rise! We dream of a future where children play, learn, and live together, free from barriers. We believe in a future that is fair, equal, and united. Justice will not come on its own. We must keep marching, keep speaking, and keep fighting. Because together, we have a duty to change History.

Rania KOTTI 3E

We will rise

My brothers, my sisters – I am not here today to ask. I am not here today to beg. I am here today to charge.

The crime of segregation has been committed. The crime of silence has been committed. The crime of indifference has been committed.

I charge white America. I charge it with murder - of our leaders, our children, our dreams. I charge the system that had been built on our backs, that had been fed with our pain, that had been protected by lies wrapped in stars and stripes.

Emmett Till had been lynched before he had lived. Rosa Parks had been humiliated before she sat down. Our fathers had been whipped, our mothers raped, our names erased.

And now they want us to wait? Wait for justice? Wait for freedom? Wait for peace?

We’ve waited long enough. We’ve prayed long enough. We’ve bled long enough.
But they don’t hear our prayers - so now they will hear our rage.

They call us “violent” when we demand to live. They call us “dangerous” when we dare to speak.
But violence had been used against us for 400 years, and we are told to smile.

America, your democracy is a lie. Your justice is blind, but only to white crime.

You’ve buried the truth deep, but we are the storm that unearths it. You’ve tried to drown us, but we are the flame that survives the flood.

We are not your “Negroes.” We are not your clowns, your workers, your shadows.
We are men. We are women. We are the children of revolution.

So, hear this:
We will rise. Whether you move or not, we will rise. Whether you like it or not, we will rise.

Not with flowers in hand, but with fire in our hearts.
Not with chains on our wrists, but with steel in our spine.

Because they had their turn - now it’s ours.

Sarah Saibi 3eD

I Won’t Fight !

My brothers and sisters, I am standing today in front of you, in order to express my anger.

We are living in a country where black people are threatened, humiliated and where we have been suffuring from the White’s supremacy for centuries.

When slavery was abolished, they said « Separate but equals » but we’re as equals as when we were holding chains. I can’t sit in the bus, I can’t eat with a white, can’t shave hands with a white and I cannot even look at a white woman while the White man is raping my sisters and lynching my brothers.

And today, I am asked to go fight in Vietnam in the name of peace, freedom, and a psedo-democracy that I can’t even find in my own country. So I’m telling younow, to every single American, I won’t fight !

I won’t fight and loose my life and Vietnam when I struggle to keep it in the freedom land of America.This isn’t the promised American dream where my children will live in.

Vietkongs aren’t the one calling us negroes. I won’t fight for my persucators.

Instead, I will fight for our rights, our remains.I will fight for a real freedom and not a fake democracy.

I will fight with hope, perseverance and one day all of us will know peace and equality.

This is my objective, my ambition, my reason of being, and since I can’t see my childs going to school and playing with white skinned, I will fight for it to do become real.

Guillaume Barth 3eD