France on a door in France. The text reads: "Here we are racists toward Whites and not solidary". Claims of racism against
Whites in France have been brought forward by various
far-right parties, and other groups beginning in the 1980s, including from the
right and
left. In September 2012,
Jean-François Copé, the leader of the
Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), and then incumbent for his
reelection, denounced the development of an anti-White prejudice by people living in France, some of them French citizens, against the "
Gauls", a name among immigrants for the native French, according to him, on the basis of these having a different religion, color skin, and ethnic background. The former
Minister of the Interior,
Claude Guéant, went on record stating that this kind of racism is a reality in France and that there is nothing worse than the political elite hiding from the truth. His government's Minister of Women's Rights,
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, echoed this view when, in her book
Raison de plus! (2012), she called on everyone to recognize the reality of such racism and to condemn it like all others. This opinion was shared by Minister of the Interior
Gérald Darmanin, who added that "Not saying [that this racism] exists is not telling the truth." In March 2025, Government spokesperson
Sophie Primas said she has "no shame" in evoking the existence of "anti-White racism". Later that month,
Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the
French Communist Party (PCF), declared: "Of course [anti-White racism] exists", for which he was criticized.
Legal cases French law does not categorize racist offenses according to the victim's ethnic origin; the judicial treatment of such offenses never includes the term "anti-White" in the qualification of the incriminating facts. However, the press sometimes uses the term when reporting on court cases involving racism against a White victim. For example, in December 2012, the Criminal Court of
Versailles sentenced an individual who had called his neighbor a "dirty White woman". Found guilty of "public insults of a racist nature", he was sentenced to a two-month suspended prison sentence with a two-year
probation period. In March 2016, the Court of Appeal of
Lyon increased the first instance sentence of an individual convicted of racial insults by three months in prison. The defendant had called a train passenger a "dirty White man, dirty Frenchman". Following the appeal judgment,
Alain Jakubowicz, the president of the anti-racist association LICRA, declared that "all forms of racism are condemnable, wherever they come from and regardless of the victim's skin color, origin or religion. While anti-White racism is a relatively marginal phenomenon compared to other forms of racism or
antisemitism, it must be subject to the same rigor and reprobation." In particular, the judges found that "the terms of the song, accompanied by violent and brutal images, directly incite the Internet user to commit attacks on the lives of White people".
Public opinion In a sociological survey conducted in 2008 by the
French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), which never uses the expression "anti-White racism", it appears that 16% of the majority population of France, i.e. the White population, say they have been the victim of a "racist situation", compared to 32% for immigrants and 36% for descendants of immigrants. 23% of the majority population say they "have not experienced a racist situation but feel exposed to it", compared to 29% for immigrants and 25% for descendants of immigrants. In addition, 10% of people of European origin say they have suffered racist discrimination in the last five years, compared to 26% for immigrants, 31% for descendants of two immigrant parents and 17% for descendants of one immigrant parent. The most reported grounds for discrimination by the majority population are 18% related to origin, compared to 70% for immigrants and 65% for descendants of immigrants. In 2012, INED published a new survey conducted between September 2008 and February 2009 on people born between 1948 and 1990, which showed that 18% of people belonging to the "majority population" said they had been "the target of racist insults, remarks or attitudes" compared to 30% for immigrants and 37% for descendants of immigrants. However, a study by the same institute concluded in 2016 that the phenomenon was "not a mass experience": "Racism by minorities against majorities can be verbally offensive, or even physically aggressive, but it is not systematic and does not produce social inequalities." The same year, Jean-Luc Primon, a sociologist at the
University of Nice and researcher at the Migrations and Society Research Unit (URMIS), participating in the TEO survey, the first INED database on origins, declared that a little more than one person in ten of those classified in the so-called "majority" population (neither immigrants, nor from immigration, nor from overseas) declared having experienced racism. A 2022 survey found that 80% of French people believe that anti-White racism is present in some French communities.
Haiti The massacres of almost the entire
White population in Haiti in 1804, also referred to as the Haitian genocide, which marked the end of the
Haitian Revolution, have been partially explained in the context of anti-White racism. On February 22, 1804, revolutionary leader
Jean-Jacques Dessalines signed a
decree ordering that all French people still residing in the country should be put to death. Dessalines' secretary
Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre complained that the declaration of independence was not aggressive enough, saying that "...we should have the skin of a white man for
parchment, his skull for an
inkwell, his blood for ink, and a
bayonet for a pen!". The people chosen to be killed were targeted primarily based on three criteria: "skin color,
citizenship and vocation." While some Whites, such as Poles and Germans who were granted citizenship and "a few non-French
veterans and American merchants, along with some useful professionals such as priests and doctors" were spared, political affiliation was not considered. The White victims were almost entirely French, commensurate with their share in the White population of Haiti. About his targets of the massacre, Dessalines' slogan exemplified his mission to
eradicate the White population with the saying "Break the eggs, take out the [sic] yoke [a pun on the word 'yellow' which means both yoke and
mulatto] and eat the white."
Upper class Whites were not the only target; any white of any socioeconomic status was also to be killed, including the urban poor known as
petits blancs (little whites). During the massacre, stabbing,
beheading, and
disemboweling were common. Historian Philippe R. Girard also states that if, after 1804 and throughout the 19th century, the presence of Whites in the country was negligible, they were perceived, in particular by Haitian
nationalists, with an antipathy that amounted to racism, excluding alliances with countries with generally White populations such as the United States and European countries, or considered too light-skinned, such as the Dominican Republic. The Black population, a large majority (90% at the beginning of the 19th century), tended to consider themselves the only true Haitian population, calling themselves "authentic", with the exception of the
mulattos, who were viewed with great suspicion because of their French fathers as well as their frequent possession of slaves before independence. The word
blan, meaning "white man", came to designate the foreigner, and carried a negative connotation that that of
neg, literally "
negro", did not have.
South Africa Milton Shain, professor emeritus of the Department of Historical Studies at the
University of Cape Town, said that
Indian,
Coloureds, and White minorities are increasingly being
scapegoated by South Africa's ruling
African National Congress (ANC). In 2001, former South African president
Nelson Mandela criticized the growing racial intolerance of Black South Africans in their attitudes toward South Africans of other racial groups. According to Sharlene Swartz, a research specialist of the
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), discourses expressing violent resentment towards White populations in South Africa are widespread, citing as an example student protests during which the inscription "Fuck White People" appeared on t-shirts and walls.
United Kingdom Public opinion In 2019, a British government inquiry by the
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) into racism in universities found that 9% of White British students reported experiencing racial harassment, including anti-English, anti-Welsh and anti-Scottish sentiments (compared to 29% of Black students, 27% of Asian students and 22% of other non-White or mixed race students). Academics of color have criticized the Commission for including harassment against White students in the statistics, which they say shows a worrying misunderstanding of racism as it "minimises the racism by including groups who do not experience racial prejudice". Prominent academics and student leaders have criticized the Commission for "drawing a false equivalence between what it described as racial harassment against White British students and staff and the racism suffered by their Black and minority ethnic peers". The EHRC did not respond to requests to remove anti-White harassment from the report, explaining that "its report made clear that racial harassment predominantly affects Black and Asian students".
United States {{Multiple image There are
Black supremacists in the United States who advocate the superiority of the "Black race", including organized groups such as the
Nation of Islam (NOI) and the
New Black Panther Party (NBPP). These groups have repeatedly been accused of stirring up racial hatred against Whites. The
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) classifies the NBPP as a
Black separatist hate group and says that its leaders "have advocated the killing of Jews and white people", while it describes the NOI as having a "theology of innate black superiority over whites". The NOI was notably represented by
Malcolm X and
Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who made anti-White speeches and called for the murder of
White Americans and White South Africans. According to the NOI, Whites were created 6,600 years ago as a "race of
devils" by an evil scientist named
Yakub, a story which originated with the founder of the NOI,
Wallace D. Fard. The
United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, a Black supremacist group, founded and led by
Dwight York, has been described by the SPLC as advocating the belief that Black people are superior to White people. The SPLC reported that York's teachings included the belief that "whites are 'devils', devoid of both heart and soul, their color the result of
leprosy and
genetic inferiority". Another Black supremacist group, the
Nation of Yahweh, founded by
Hulon Mitchell Jr., also known as Yahweh ben Yahweh, has been described by the SPLC as racist, stating that the group believes that Black people are the true
Israelites and Whites hold "wicked powers". The SPLC also claims that the group believes that Yahweh ben Yahweh had a Messianic mission to vanquish Whites and that it held views similar to those of the
Christian Identity movement, which believes that "
Aryans" are the true Israelites and non-Whites are devils. The Nation of Yahweh had eliminated calls for violence and toned down its anti-White rhetoric by 2007, but remained Black supremacist and antisemitic in its ideology. Proponents of the
pseudoscientific "
melanin theory" argue that Whites suffer from a
melanin deficiency that makes them inferior to Blacks in athletic, intellectual and spiritual terms. According to Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, anthropology professor at
Wayne State University in
Detroit, this theory, which has been popular with some proponents of
Afrocentrism and Black supremacists, including professor of Black studies
Leonard Jeffries and psychologist
Frances Cress Welsing, "reactivates biological racism."
Public opinion A 2017 poll found that 55% of White Americans believe that White people face discrimination. A 2022 poll found that 64% of
Republicans polled said White people experience a fair amount of hate or discrimination in society. A 2023 YouGov poll found that of
Trump 2020 voters, 73% say that racism against White Americans is a problem.
Zimbabwe 's regime (pictured in 1979), discrimination and violence were perpetrated against the country's White community, with the participation and encouragement of the state. Following the dissolution of
Rhodesia and Zimbabwe's independence from
British rule in 1980, the
Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (
ZANU–PF) party came to power. A racist ideology developed, with ZANU and
ZAPU emphasizing the "sons and daughters of the soil" as genuine citizens as opposed to White aliens by nature (
amabhunu, a term imported from South Africa which refers to the
Boers). At the time, most agricultural land was owned by
White Zimbabweans. The party, led by
Robert Mugabe, implemented racist policies through
land reform, confiscating land from Whites and evicting them from their farms. Under President Robert Mugabe's regime, discrimination and violence were perpetrated against the country's White community, with the participation and encouragement of the state. Most White farmers were dispossessed and several were murdered. Mugabe was regularly accused of stoking hostility towards Zimbabwe's White farmers and blaming them for the failure of his land reform to save his power. On several occasions, Mugabe also made statements deemed racist towards Whites, referring to White Rhodesians as "blood-sucking exploiters", "sadistic killers", and "hard-core racists". He called on supporters "to strike fear in the hearts of the white man, our real enemy", and accused his Black opponents of being dupes of the Whites. In one typical example, taken from a 1978 radio address, Mugabe declared: "Let us hammer [the White man] to defeat. Let us blow up his citadel. Let us give him no time to rest. Let us chase him in every corner. Let us rid our home of this settler vermin". Since then, Zimbabwe's White population has steadily declined, from 260,000 in 1975 to around 30,000 in 2014. While Whites accounted for 80% of the national income, this agrarian policy has fostered famine in the former
breadbasket of Africa. From an exporter, the country became an importer. The government and the
Supreme Court of Zimbabwe contested the tribunal's decision. However, in 2016, noting the harmful impact of his measures on agricultural production, Mugabe called for the return to the country of White farmers forced into exile. In 2017, new President
Emmerson Mnangagwa's inaugural speech promised to pay compensation to the White farmers whose land was seized during the land reform program. Rob Smart became the first White farmer whose land was returned after President Mnangagwa was sworn in to office; he returned to his farm in
Manicaland province by military escort. During the
World Economic Forum 2018 in
Davos, Mnangagwa also stated that his new government believes thinking about racial lines in farming and land ownership is "outdated", and should be a "philosophy of the past." ==See also==