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PUBLIC ENEMY WARNED US IN FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET! PUBLIC ENEMY NOUS AVAIT AVERTIS DANS FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET!

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English version  In analyzing the many attacks directed against the French national football team, serious sociologists, cultural critics, and political analysts, could easily argue that these attacks are a reaction against Black excellence, driven by the exact same anxieties Chuck D of Public Enemy outlined in the album  Fear of a Black Planet , released in 1990. When a national team achieves the highest levels of global success while being predominantly composed of Black players and children of immigrants, it fundamentally disrupts the traditional, exclusionary narratives of European national identity. The ensuing vitriolic backlash is triggered by the fact that historically, racist ideologies have relied on the premise of white superiority and Black inferiority. Black excellence, especially when it is undeniable, highly visible, and globally celebrated, as it is with the French national football team, dismantles that premise entirely. Because detractors cannot attack the Fr...

MANUAL VALLS EXPLAINS FRANCE TO HIS SPANISH COMPATRIOTS! MANUAL VALLS EXPLIQUE LA FRANCE À SES COMPATRIOTES ESPAGNOLS!

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English version  A French Team Without French People? I know Mariano Rajoy. I have sat across from him, as a European, as a head of government. That is why his words do not merely anger me; they sadden me. I did not think him capable of it. Regarding the French national team, Mariano Rajoy wrote: "They are at a very high level, having said that, without French people." This is not a witticism; it is an admission. Because what he thinks he fails to see in this team are not nationalities. They are skin colors. So, to him, a Black person cannot be French. That is simply called racism. And what ignorance of our history—sometimes turbulent but rich in its diversity and linked to a former colonial empire across five continents. I can tell him this better than anyone. I was born in Barcelona, to Spanish parents, and naturalized at twenty years old. I do not have a drop of French blood, but France flows through my veins. These words are not mine. They belong to Romain Gary—a Jew born...

AFTER THE PARAGUAYAN SENATOR, HERE IS THE FORMER SPANISH PRIME MINISTER! APRÈS LA SÉNATRICE PARAGUAYENNE, VOILÀ L’ANCIEN PREMIER MINISTRE ESPAGNOL!

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English version  It is fascinating, and for this blog highly exasperating, to see the extent to which the French national football team crystallizes the malicious attention of all racists and supremacists. Being Black and excellent seems unacceptable to many people. The diversity of the French squad is targeted by political figures in countries set to face the French. In a strategy serving to fuel their own nationalist or conservative agendas, following the obsessive diatribes of a Paraguayan senator regarding Kylian Mbappé, we now have a former Spanish Prime Minister claiming that the French team plays "without French players." Attacking the French team is a disguised way for these individuals to criticize France's social and integration model on the international stage. Because the French team is one of the most highly publicized and followed national teams in the world, an excellent squad with a majority of Black stars irritates many people. Take the former Spanish Pri...