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Re: [Marxism] French elections: position of the left on racism and national oppression
- To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Marxism] French elections: position of the left on racism and national oppression
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:10:46 +0900
On 20 avr. 07, at 22:52, Greg Dunkel wrote:
Most of the protesters at the Gare du Nord were Black and North
Africans going home to the northern suburbs of Paris, where the
2005 rebellion of the oppressed communities started. While every
French person who saw the TV coverage would have been aware of this
fact, the LCR didn't see fit to mention it.
I don't know which TV channel you were watching. But this is plainly
false. All the videos shown on TV or on the web showed what was more
realistically a patchwork of people commuting back from work and
specifically _not_ mostly "oppressed communities". What happened
later in the night is a different story.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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