 People talk derisively of Les Noirs, the blacks, he tells me. They say they can't go out at night because of them, because of the crime. This kind of talk is nonsense. It revolts me. And he goes on. The history of our town shows the danger of people turning against each other. Nationalism is war, he declaims, and war is what follows when you try to block people, to fence them off, to blame them. Andrew Harding.