Belgium: Ath festival featuring blackface 'savage' sparks racism furore
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Hundreds of people flocked to the western town of Ath on Sunday to witness the traditional 'Le Sauvage' performance amid claims that the tradition is racist.
The four-day-long festival features a white man, wearing blackface, a chain round his neck and a nose ring, who is known as the 'Savage.'
You will see that people are thrilled to be here, and that the Savage is a star among locals and that there is absolutely nothing racist behind all this, said town mayor Bruno Lefebvre.
Another resident said the depiction might be 'demeaning' but that 'it is the custom of Ath and needs to stay.'
The festival is part of the Ducasse d'Ath, a traditional parade on the fourth Sunday of August every year, which is recognised by UNESCO as one of the 'Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.'
However, a campaign has been launched by an anti-racism group, the Brussels Panthers, to have the festival removed from the list over its disputed content.
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The festival held over the weekend in a small Belgian town that highlights the big problem that country has with anti-black racism. The festival features a character that is massively offensive to black people all over the world and which reinforces, in 2019, racist ideas we were supposed to have moved past by now. The character in the festival is called ‘The Savage’.
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