"Nobody likes a whistleblower." Witnessing silenced racism and homophobia at work

In France, racist acts and riots appear consistently in the media. At the same time, racism in the French language is a debated concept often reduced to a matter of geography or class. In this short essay, I tell the story of 4 friends who experienced racism in an international, upper-class community, stressing the diversity of their reactions. In the workplace, someone who speaks up runs the risk of losing his/her reputation, which maintains racism in organizations. I extend the analysis of silence with how the word "race" is silenced in the French language, limiting the ability to know and face racism. I end up with a reflexive account of film and its ability to reveal my own unconscious racism. This is a call to create a diversity of discourses so that new forms of subjectivizations emerge to collectively fight racism and all forms of discriminations.