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**enrisaabsotte** · 11-08-2005, 09:10 PM

I have a friend who is from France and is mixed race. Although she grew up in a fairly well-to-do family, she says racisim is rampant in France. That combined with the general anti-muslim atmosphere must make people pretty frustrated.

In the meantime, if they keep burning cars in France, they will become the leader in cutting greenhouse emissions in Europe. So, in a way, they come out ahead in all of this.

Thing is, they are that way about EVERYBODY, so maybe they should feel flattered...

I am tooling with this on another website and one thing that was brought up that was interesting was this.

For an incident that happened where noone was beaten or hurt actively by the police (two kids licked the third rail), everyone seems to be up in arms about it. It looks like people were just waiting for some reason to react and these deaths, even though they were not directly caused by the police, were enough.

The thing that was brought up in addition to this was the weird way it all was handled. They have people THROWING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS and DESTROYING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY for TWO WEEKS and it is only now that they are saying "HEY! Don't make us start a curfew!!!!!".

You would think that they would stop the few radical ragers that were doing this FIRST, and THEN deal with apologizing later.

11-08-2005, 09:10 PM	#14
enrisaabsotte Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 441 Senior Member	I have a friend who is from France and is mixed race. Although she grew up in a fairly well-to-do family, she says racisim is rampant in France. That combined with the general anti-muslim atmosphere must make people pretty frustrated. In the meantime, if they keep burning cars in France, they will become the leader in cutting greenhouse emissions in Europe. So, in a way, they come out ahead in all of this. Thing is, they are that way about EVERYBODY, so maybe they should feel flattered... I am tooling with this on another website and one thing that was brought up that was interesting was this. For an incident that happened where noone was beaten or hurt actively by the police (two kids licked the third rail), everyone seems to be up in arms about it. It looks like people were just waiting for some reason to react and these deaths, even though they were not directly caused by the police, were enough. The thing that was brought up in addition to this was the weird way it all was handled. They have people THROWING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS and DESTROYING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY for TWO WEEKS and it is only now that they are saying "HEY! Don't make us start a curfew!!!!!". You would think that they would stop the few radical ragers that were doing this FIRST, and THEN deal with apologizing later.
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