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**borasolit** · 05-29-2009, 02:33 PM

Fair and balanced reporting.

I couldn't take issue with a single sentence.

A French person on the blog said that Black women in French tennis are almost unheard of. Why that is, I've no clue.

Based upon what I have been shared to me by North African friends that live in Switzerland:

My friend has relatives in France and there is a low tolerance for people of color in France. There is this dichotomy of "we don't see color," but a implicit reality of no-one can show pride in their color. Women of color are practically "invisible" in that country.

The French love black American culture and music, but there is another reality there that has worsen in the past 10 to 15 years.

05-29-2009, 02:33 PM	#6
borasolit Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 412 Senior Member	Fair and balanced reporting. I couldn't take issue with a single sentence. A French person on the blog said that Black women in French tennis are almost unheard of. Why that is, I've no clue. Based upon what I have been shared to me by North African friends that live in Switzerland: My friend has relatives in France and there is a low tolerance for people of color in France. There is this dichotomy of "we don't see color," but a implicit reality of no-one can show pride in their color. Women of color are practically "invisible" in that country. The French love black American culture and music, but there is another reality there that has worsen in the past 10 to 15 years.
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