Yannick Noah, the last winner of the French Roland-Garros, has late Sunday, “the silence” of the sports white, after the death of George Floyd in the United States that has sparked demonstrations across the world to protest against discrimination against black Americans.
“It is well that young people are caring for me but what bothers me is that these are all mestizos or Blacks,” said the former tennis champion, asked about the positions of his fellow athletes Gael Monfils, Kylian Mbappé or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on this topic.
“Why? It is an injustice that should sensitize the whole world. There has been both a business more or less stifled. I am certain that the police in general do a very good job, but the black sheep of the time it was a little strong.”
Raised on the need for “sportsmen” white-agree on the issue, the former tennis player turned to the song responded: “Yes, because their silence annoys me, it goes deeper than that. This reassures me as a métis, is that pretty quickly we are talking about injustice. Yes, it is a Black, it happens since always, but then all of a sudden, there is also the White youth, the younger generation, who realize that it is their future to them, they don’t want to live in that world.”
