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How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
« on: April 03, 2021, 06:41:01 pm »
How France’s Colonial Past Explains Its Racism Today
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Despite resistance from French elite, there’ve been growing calls for France to recognize and apologize for its violent colonization of millions of people in Africa and Asia. In fact, by 1901, France ruled 79 million people over 4.6 million square miles.

“Where would France be without its colonies in the Caribbean?” asks Professor Mame-Fatou Niang. “Where would France be without its huge possessions in Sub-Saharan Africa? Where would France be without its possessions in Asia, without Algeria?”

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2 days ago
"It will never be stopped, until we stop it ourselves" - Malcolm X
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Liam Tahaney
1 day ago
Honestly the attitude of "colorblindness" and the idea that they already "fixed" racism with the revolution (civil war in the us) has huge parallels with discourse in the us
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Prime Sterling
3 days ago
The world is in desperate need of truth and reconciliation.
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Banks of Barcelona
2 days ago
They don't want to talk about colonialism because France is still a colonial power with their colonial tax on 14 African countries Jacques Chirac once said without the exploitation of these 14 countries in Africa, France will become a third world country
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Sydney W
3 days ago
I know people are so sick of hearing about it. I know it. Imagine how tired people are from suffering from it? 🙃 Nobody wants to talk about it and acknowledge it and this is why we aren’t moving past it. People heal with apologies and changed action. We knew this in kindergarten.
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Sathya M
3 days ago
France is still a colonial nation.