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Sunday, November 06, 2005

Is Paris Burning?


Is Paris Burning?
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.
Wow! The Parisian suburbs are looking like Watts from 40 years ago!

It's not surprising, because the French don't like anyone, particularly immigrants from their former colonies, who has high Muslin backgrounds or are niggas from Africa.

There was a movie about ten years ago called La Haine, it's French for "the hate" and it's a Boyz In The Hood style of film set in these Parisian suburb ghetto housing projects that would remind you a Cabrini Green in Chicago. It's the story of an African, an Arab and a Jew who fuck around, form a bond and deal with death that's all based on the fact that mainstream society doesn't want to deal with them.

Truth be told in all societies around the globe, as much as people claim they are open-minded, they're not.

This explosive backlash outside of Paris isn't going to change anything. People of color -- particularly with Islam as their religion -- get treated like SHIT in the Occidental Worlds.

I'm very interested in seeing what Jacques Chirac and these other people do to alleviate this kind of bullshit.

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