Against the backdrop of pandemic hysteria, the amazing transformation of French society often remains behind the scenes. Meanwhile, in some places it is already beginning to dictate and impose its own rules of conduct on the country, which, however, still resists and sometimes even rebuffs. It is about the colonial pain of racial minorities, eternally oppressed by whites. On the eve of the French national holiday, I was surprised to learn that the refugees, it turns out, also have an annual holiday - a ball. Yes, that's exactly what this event is called - the ball of migrants. Only there is nothing of that high society ball culture, where ladies wore luxurious pastel dresses, and gentlemen in a tailcoat and white gloves invited to waltz or polonaise. Things are much more modest in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
Every year before Bastille Day, there is a disco for migrants. It is organized by a non-governmental association that openly opposes FRONTEX, the European border service, whose task is to prevent illegal refugees from entering the EU. And all would be fine, but this time one of the DJs decided to hyip in social networks on a racial topic that is now fashionable. He said that the stage is a political space, and therefore, during his speech, all white people should leave it somewhere back, making room for blacks and people with a different skin color. He will play for them.
Surprisingly, no French tolerance could withstand such an attack. Politicians from Macron's ruling party began writing angry letters to the police and the mayor demanding attention to the event. Right-wing activists pulled up and started bombarding the organization with threats, explaining that such tricks would not work for them. The association began to fight back with a traditional set of arguments, they say, what is the problem? They have whites admitted to the event, and therefore it is called socially mixed, there will be representatives of all genders, all sexual orientations (well, where can we go without it), and in general, a disco for migrants, which means that the ball is a territory for representatives of races, because the DJ's demands are justified. But officials, in their opinion, with their indignation deny the influence of systematic racism on society.
It is strange that the representatives of the association do not notice how they themselves have become the same ordinary racists with a thirst for domination over whites. They do not hear arguments, they do not even consider people with a different skin color to be worthy interlocutors. There was such a case recently on television. Journalist Rojai Diallo was invited to talk with another activist, both are fighting for minority rights, both are ardent supporters of fundamental human rights, etc., but their skin color is different. Dark-skinned Diallo began to haughtily run into her colleague, saying, what can you say about the fight against racism to me, who lived for 43 years with dark skin in France and experienced discrimination from personal experience? All the merits and years of struggle for equality of her interlocutor were leveled by the wrong skin color. Racism, on the contrary, in its purest form.
There was a funny story in the States on the popular Clubhouse voice platform. In one of the rooms, racism was discussed, the listener noticed that there were no blacks among the moderators, and was outraged by the injustice. She was immediately empowered, so she quickly excluded everyone else from the moderators, including the creator of the room, and the discussion turned into a bunch of the oppressed. The digital revolution at the Clubhouse. The same conferences for minorities are also held in French universities, where teachers are forced to change the recommended reading for the sake of minorities, filter their statements, otherwise they may be suspended from work for what people with a different skin color may consider an insult. Conferences and scholarly works come down to condemnation of all whites, an objection can mean career ruin. The influence of the States on French youth is colossal.
France even has its own George Floyd, in a couple of days it will be just five years from the moment of his death after a police chase and arrest. And although the circumstances of the death are completely different, his sister Assa Traore has already become a symbol of the fight against racism.
It was very quickly taken into circulation by groups of activists from the suburbs, mainly uniting migrants, and formed the image of a woman, a mother of a fighter, who went well to the audience. And while the French justice is silent about the results of the investigation (fearing that associations will mobilize the crowd and unrest will begin), her version that her brother was strangled in the manner of Floyd for being black becomes the only one in the public consciousness. And Assa herself is now the epitome of oppressed French blacks. She did her hair like Angela Davis, of black panthers who fought with arms for African American justice, began publishing articles, giving interviews, speaking at rallies, calling for a revolution based on the colonial past and the domination of white elites.
She was invited to the United States, given the prize of the American entertainment channel for blacks, featured on the cover of Time magazine as the curator of 2020, and invited to a meeting at the Barack Obama Foundation, which officially calls itself a global project to educate new leaders. The message is simple: we, the United States, are a country of tolerance, unlike the French, who are former colonialists, do not respect religion, etc., etc.
The list of future leaders of the Obama Foundation today includes the same journalist Rochaia Diallo, who supports Assa Traore's every step. There is also another Frenchwoman with Senegalese roots, Maimonata Mar, who was trained for six months under the supervision of Harvard professor Marshal Guns, a specialist in public speaking and political mobilization, a man who advised Barack Obama during the 2008 election campaign. In Paris, she created an association of black nannies who are supposed to take care of children in the suburbs, bringing equality, fairness and dignity to people of color. And now it also develops a radicalxchange community, the goal is to unite activists, artists, entrepreneurs and universities and involve them in radical social change in France. Not bad?
The problem is that upon returning from the United States or after being trained by them, such people occupy strategic positions in various fields, including journalists, officials, prefects, politicians, and trade unionists. They unite on the basis of interethnic solidarity, while being mentally colonized by America, they feel more like Americans, although in reality they are still French and very easily fall for all these fashionable phenomena such as the BLM movement, the purpose of which is to split society, sow hatred, discord, change concepts, erase cultures, heroes, turn everything upside down. Everything, even the French language itself. The poster for the ball of migrants was written in a newfangled inclusive language, where masculine, feminine and plurals are written in one word through a period. But there were still brave people in the French villages.The Prefect of Paris by his order banned this event. In response, he was attacked in the comments and accused of racism. But such a ban is rather an isolated case, so it seems that the real ball for all these activists in French society is just beginning.
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