On the former passerelle Solférino, I got interviewed by two lads working for a national magazine. Their goal was to poll people about a change of name in favor of Léopold Sédar Senghor... who’s black.

At that moment, I couldn’t really see the point of this question, I confess. I mean... He’s black, yeah, so what?

Their goal was apparently to show that "wow", a black could have his very own footbridge, that’s just so great for our suburbs. I’m not convinced at all that this would really help the mentioned suburbs; it just intensifies differences, I think.

Let’s stop this politically correct which consists in describing suburbs as nice places to be. No, there’s some areas that are freaking scary, like city centers before. Then some educated geeks had the good idea to clean up downtowns, so that bourgeois could walk peacefully in the city. They then just evicted the population elsewhere (alibi, in latin).

What the...: alibi. We head back to the politically correct.

What’s now needed is to clean suburbs to reverse the tendency, reinstate them in downtown, and that’s gonna be the perfect zoo for bourgeois in the peripheral.

That’s kinda funny, that makes me think of USA (It was Bush Jr. mandate at the time of this writing); that makes me think about Sarkozy.

Isn’t there any other way than fighting fire with fire? Like... education?