France's Racist Sarkozy fails to race bait US constitutionalists [wtf hypocrite]

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AFP is government owned and controlled by the racist pig Sarkozy...


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Civil rights expert: ‘Birthers’ only ‘racists or extreme right wingers’
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/30/civil-rights-expert-birthers-only-racists-or-extreme-right-wingers/
By Agence France-Presse Published: July 30, 2009

 
A small group of fringe conservatives, many fundamentally opposed to the notion of an African-American as president, are challenging President Barack Obama’s eligibility for the US presidency.

On blogs and even before US courts, the so-called “Birthers” are using the Constitution, with its stipulation that presidents be US natural born citizens, to argue Obama should not be in the White House.

Despite proof that Obama was born in the US state of Hawaii, including a birth certificate affirming that fact, rumors continue to spread, fueled by a group that critics say includes right-wing militants, racists and Holocaust deniers.

“These are people who are fundamentally either racist or extreme right-wingers. That’s where the whole movement is coming from,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which studies extremist groups.

The movement is composed of “people who very much do not want Barack Obama to be president, largely because he is black, certainly because he is liberal,” he added.

On sites like WorldNetDaily.com, where a petition questioning Obama’s place of birth has attracted more than 400,000 electronic “signatories,” the so-called Birthers are daily raising “new doubts about the story of Obama’s birth.”

One of them has already tried in vain three times to sell on Ebay a birth certificate purporting to show that Obama was born in Kenya.

They are also taking their cause before US courts, where several lawsuits claiming that Obama was not born on US soil have been dismissed, including by the Supreme Court, which refused to hear argument on the issue.

At the beginning of the week, authorities in the state of Hawaii were forced for the second time since the senator from Illinois became president to certify that Barack Hussein Obama was in fact born in the Kapiolani maternity ward in Honolulu on August 4, 1961 at 7:24 pm local time.

The US House of Representatives on Monday passed a non-legally-binding text on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Hawaii’s entry in the United States, affirming that “the 44th president of the United States was born in Hawaii.”

“In America there is a history of conspiracy thinking that… is part of a tradition of dissent,” said Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, which studies right-wing movements.

Berlet said a small percentage of the population believes the government has been taken over by a “secret elite” that includes “freemasons, the Catholics, Jewish bankers” and others.

He noted that former president Bill Clinton was also the subject of conspiracy theories that claimed he was seeking the help of the United Nations to confiscate all weapons on American soil.

While the movement has an audience of several hundreds of thousands of sympathizers, their theories are also being broadcast by media figures such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs and radio host Rush Limbaugh.

“So you have this right-wing social movement, relatively small but angry, and then you have these major public figures, inflaming them with rhetoric and conspiracy allegations on national television,” Berlet told AFP.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were 926 racist groups in the United States in 2008, compared to 602 in 2000 — a rise of 54 percent.

“I think that’s very significant, and the numbers continue to rise,” said Potok. “Very likely the white supremacist world has been energized by the election of a black man into the White House.”

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Amazing that the most vile racist genocidal maniac Sarkozy mandated this propaganda comparable to Pravda.

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Malena Amusa
French President Sarkozy swims in racism’s deep end
http://www.racewire.org/archives/2007/09/french_president_sarkozy_swims_1.html
First posted at ADDlife!

So I’ve never been shot before. But hearing the words of French President Nicolas Sarkozy about Africa sure seemed close to it.

His recent speech to students at a Dakar, Senegal University hit me like a bullet… Swiftly and burning. Painfully and shocking—and in just a few short stanzas, shattered my idea that representations of Africa and Africans were becoming less lumped and less tolerant of racism.

Before a crowd of Black faces, Sarkozy said this:

“The tragedy of Africa is that the African has not fully entered into history. The African peasant, who for thousands of years have lived according to the seasons, whose life ideal was to be in harmony with nature, only knew the eternal renewal of time, rhythmed by the endless repetition of the same gestures and the same words. In this imaginary world, where everything starts over and over again, there is no place for human adventure or for the idea of progress.


“In this universe where nature commands all, man escapes from the anguish of history that torments modern man, but he rests immobile in the centre of a static order where everything seems to have been written beforehand.

“The problem of Africa, and allow a friend of Africa to say it, is to be found here. Africa’s challenge is to enter to a greater extent into history. To take from it the energy, the force, the desire, the willingness to listen and to espouse its own history. Africa’s problem is to stop always repeating, always mulling over, to liberate itself from the myth of the eternal return. It is to realise that the golden age that Africa is forever recalling will not return because it has never existed.”


Undoubtedly, this makes our jobs tougher…

We have to work harder to create more accessible platforms to tell our counter-narratives even where they already exist!

This will take a revival of liberation spirits and a deep pursuit on our parts to learn histories. This challenge can be exciting, especially for artists. We can share knowledge in ways that morph libraries of information into rhyme, sound, and beauty.

However knowledge alone doesn’t equal progressive social change. Sadly, despite the truth, we can’t count on some folk to help us. For example, South African president Thabo Mbeki insisted after this speech that Sarkozy is still a “friend” of Africans and an African renaissance.

But it’s clear, Sarkozy isn’t even a distant cousin.

A quick Google/ YouTube search of him reveals a swamp of news about his anti-African immigrant policy. Sarkozy, a son of immigrants, is threatening to kick African families out of France. Like in his speech, he’s landed on some serious amnesia by forgetting France’s role in Francophone Africa’s ruins.

Not to mention, Sarkozy’s comments are absent of even remote post-caveman thinking. I mean if there’s anything all Africans have in common –it’s gotta be our rich, long, and dynamic history.

Further, to deny the human dignity of Africa is dangerous. History-less people are easily deduced and destructed. Really, Sarkozy is sanctioning the erasure of African people from the narrative of civilization. And I don’t trust his future attempts to do this won’t involve violence and perhaps real shooting.

Besides standing guard and keeping an awareness alive in our minds and our moving bodies, what else can we do? Leave a note…

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0726616720070507

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Sarkozy’s Racist Africa Attack
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9260c113e0451ab14b0b2187e58efb17
The Black Star News, Commentary, Sifelani Tsiko , Posted: Nov 23, 2007

Editor's note: Tsiko is The Black Star News's Southern Africa correspondent based in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The latest incident in which authorities in Chad rescued 103 children who were to be flown to France under unclear circumstances by a team of French aid workers from the so-called Zoe's Ark charity organization raises a number of issues, more importantly, African unity and Africa's relationship with the pan-European world.

It was demeaning and pathetic to see an African president being utterly powerless to prevent the interference of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the internal affairs of Chad.

It took Sarkozy, nicknamed "Speedy Sarkozy" just a day to secure the release of three French journalists and four Spanish flight attendants, on November 4, undermining the Chad's judiciary and sovereignty.

As if this is not enough, Speedy Sarkozy says he will return to Chad to bring home the other remaining detainees made up of 10 Europeans who are facing charges of extortion and child kidnapping.

Sarkozy's actions amply demonstrate that Western interference and meddling into the internal affairs of African countries did not start with nor is it going to end with Zimbabwe. His actions are racist and belittle Africans as poor managers of their lives and destiny.

Some BSN [Black Star News] readers might think I'm a “racist in reverse.” But before you say anything hold your fire. Let us just hear what 'our friend' from Paris said at the Cheik Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal on 26 July 2007.

"The colonials," Sarkozy said, "came and looted, helped themselves, exploited, took resources and wealth that did not belong to them. They stripped the colonized of their personalities, of their freedom, of their lands, and of the fruits of their labors."

He went further: "They took, but I would also like to say, with respect, that they also gave -they built bridges, roads, hospitals, chemists, schools. They made the virgin soil bear fruit, they invested their concern, their labors and their knowledge. I want to say here: the colonials were not all thieves, they were not all exploiters.

"There were bad men among them, but there were also among them men of goodwill, men who thought they were carrying out a civilizing mission...They thought they were bringing freedom when they were feeding alienation. They thought they were breaking the chains of obscurantism, superstition and servitude.

"In fact, they were forging far heavier chains and imposing a far more onerous form of servitude, one that weighed on spirits and souls...Colonialism is not responsible for all of Africa's current difficulties. It is not responsible for the bloody wars that Africans fight against each other. It is not responsible for genocides. It is not responsible for dictators. It is not responsible for corruption and prevarication..

"Colonialism was an offence that destroyed the subjects' self esteem and gave birth in their hearts to that self-hatred that always ends up being turned on other people.

But perhaps this part better depicts Sarkozy's racist instincts and drive: "The tragedy of Africa is that the African man has never really entered history. The African peasant has known only the eternal renewal of time via the endless repetition of the same actions and the same words. In this mentality, where everything always starts over again, there is no place for human adventure nor for any idea of progress." He added: "Africa's problem is that its present is permeated with nostalgia for the paradise of its lost childhood..."

His speech is a mockery to the struggling African peasants who toil everyday on the land to feed Europe without getting a fair price for their labor. Sarkozy should read history correctly. Who controls the international prices of cocoa, coffee, tea, beef, minerals and other products? Who supplies weapons to African rebels? Who controls world trade and finance?

His actions are a painful mockery of the integrity of Africans. What could have happened if the 10 Europeans including members of Zoe's Ark were Africans attempting to traffic white children from say Paris to an unknown destination in Africa?

Do you think it will be possible for Chadian President Idriss Deby to secure the release of the Africans? "The intervention and interference by the French president at a personal level can best be described as the 'devil getting into detail,' a Zimbabwean political commentator says.

"Why Sarkozy decided to deal with the issue personally is part of the bigger picture in this fiasco. It is also part of the answer to the puzzle of why westerners that commit crimes on African soil are not supposed to stand trial in those countries and if they do and are found guilty, they are not supposed to save their jail terms there.

"But, how many Africans are locked up in western jails for various crimes and how many African leaders have intervened on behalf of their citizens, notwithstanding that they would have broken the laws of those western countries? the Harare-based political commentator asked.

Honestly speaking, if this incident had happened in France and not Chad, involved European children, the perpetrators could have faced a different fate. Europe would have called for a Nuremberg-style trial.

Today, Africa is on trial from the same world that persecuted it for centuries, the same world that boasts of being the guardians of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the same world that thinks it is the champion in the fight against child trafficking and the same world that talks about the equality of sovereign nations and peoples.

In our African eyes Sarkozy is a disgrace, a raw racist whose crude intervention blunts Africa's march to unity and right to self determination.

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Footballer calls Sarkozy racist
http://frenchelection2007.blogspot.com/2007/04/footballer-calls-sarkozy-racist.html
Saturday, April 14, 2007

As front-runner it should be expected that you should receive the most heat, something Nicolas Sarkozy is slowly learning. Today Lilian Thuram, a soccer/football player who played for France's World Cup team, and who caused controversy last year when "he invited 80 people, who were expelled by French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy from a flat where they lived illegally, to the football match between France and Italy," told Spain's El Mundo that Sarkozy is a racist.

"Sarkozy's rhetoric isn't quasi-racist, it is racist. He wants to create a ministry of immigration and national identity and that's dangerous...When you start to divide people and see one group here, Muslims there, the blacks over there, you teach people to see others as different.

What is being integrated? My mother is French, my father is French. Why do I have to be 'integrated'? Because I am black. You'd never ask if a white man was integrated. France doesn't have a problem with immigration, it has a problem with citizenship. Some French people don't think other Frenchmen are French. If I stop playing football tomorrow and I go back to France, people won't see me as a Frenchman, they'll see me as an immigrant."

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Smells like a set-up.  France is raising the visibility of this issue around the world. I understand people already know but you just don't hear this from a foreign govt news source

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That's why they wanted nObama as President.  Any criticism against him can easily be deflected by calling it "racist".

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Smells like a set-up.  France is raising the visibility of this issue around the world. I understand people already know but you just don't hear this from a foreign govt news source

Sarkozy is a zionist racist asshole, he controls AFP.  Believe me, he is trying to squash this investigation. Expose his hypocricy, he is the biggest racist since Margaret Sanger, it is beyond laughable.

Just look (there are a thousand articles about Sarkozy's racism):

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UN Racism Expert Accuses Sarkozy of ‘Legitimizing Racism,’ Defends Durban II Conference
http://blog.unwatch.org/?p=49
Published by UN Watch - at November 8, 2007 in Third Committee.
UN Racism Expert Doudou Diène addressed the General Assembly’s Third Committee on social, humanitarian and cultural affairs, noting a “resurgence” in racist and xenophobic violence, as well as growing “defamation of religions.” He cited racial as well as religious hatred, anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and, particularly, Islamophobia. Diène took the unusual step of criticizing French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a July 2007 speech in Dakar that allegedly stated that “Africans had not become part of history.” According to Diène, this was “an example of the legitimization of racism…it recalled the essentialism of racist constructions of the 18th and 19th centuries.”

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Mbeki criticised for praising 'racist' Sarkozy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/27/southafrica.france
Chris McGreal in Johannesburg
The Guardian, Monday 27 August 2007

South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has been forced to defend his description of Nicolas Sarkozy as "a citizen of Africa", for a speech by the French president that was widely condemned elsewhere on the continent as racist.

Mr Mbeki wrote to the rightwing French leader praising an address to a university audience in Senegal last month in which Mr Sarkozy said that Africans had turned their back on progress.

"The tragedy of Africa is that the African has never really entered into history ... They have never really launched themselves into the future," Mr Sarkozy said. "The African peasant, who for thousands of years has lived according to the seasons, whose life ideal was to be in harmony with nature, only knew the eternal renewal of time ... In this imaginary world, where everything starts over and over again, there is room neither for human endeavour, nor for the idea of progress.

"The problem of Africa ... is to be found here. Africa's challenge is to enter to a greater extent into history ... It is to realise that the golden age that Africa is forever recalling will not return, because it has never existed." Mr Sarkozy also defended France's past role in Africa by saying that while it may have made "mistakes", it "did not exploit anybody".

The speech was widely condemned, including by the head of the African Union commission, Alpha Oumar Konare. "This speech was not the kind of break we were hoping for," he told Radio France Internationale. "It reminded us of another age, especially his comments about peasants." Other critics said that while Mr Sarkozy asked younger Africans if they wanted an end to corruption and violence, he failed to acknowledge the role of France in propping up abusive regimes.

The French government defended Mr Sarkozy's speech by saying that he also criticised the laissez-faire economics of globalisation and proposed a partnership with Africa to confront it.

Parts of the South African president's letter to Mr Sarkozy were leaked to Le Monde last week.

"What you have said in Dakar, Mr President, has indicated to me that we are fortunate to count on you as a citizen of Africa, as a partner in the protracted struggle to achieve the renaissance of Africa within the context of a European renaissance and the rest of the world," Mr Mbeki wrote.

Mr Sarkozy was reported to have written back: "You have been kind enough to highlight the 'courage and truthfulness' of this speech. As you very well know, Africa needs truthful friends in order for her to meet the challenges she is facing."

Mr Mbeki's letter has led to criticism in the media and among African diplomats.

One South African political commentator, Xolela Mangcu, wrote in The Weekender newspaper: "Does Mbeki say one thing in public and a different thing in private correspondence with western leaders? Could that be the reason he is treated by suspicion by some African leaders?

"At the very least I would have expected him to have joined other African leaders and publicly condemn Sarkozy."

Mr Mbeki's spokesman, Mukoni Ratshitanga, told Johannesburg's Business Day: "We concur with some of the elements of Sarkozy's speech in so far as it relates to his commitment to partner the continent in its process of renaissance."

Mr Mbeki also publicly praised the speech in his weekly newsletter, saying it suggested that France was willing to press for a fairer trade deal for Africa.

Backstory

France maintains closer ties to its former African possessions and their leaders than other former colonial powers. It underpins the common currency used in some central and west African Francophone countries, maintains large military bases there and has proven more willing to send troops to the continent to defend its allies, including the Hutu regime in Rwanda that oversaw the 1994 genocide. Nicolas Sarkozy has indicated some changes to the relationship and admitted to mistakes by France but he told Africans to stop blaming the past for their problems. In his Dakar speech, he asked the audience if they wanted an end to arbitrary corruption and violence. "It is up to you to take the decision and if you decide so, France will be by your side."

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That's why they wanted nObama as President.  Any criticism against him can easily be deflected by calling it "racist".

Yup, but we can fight the power on this obvious fraud of an argument.  Loving freedom does not equal racism.  But being against freedom definitely does, just look at Sarkozy (duh!)

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They have to tell the world something when the first of the shooting starts.

They'll say that racist, anarchist, back-woods, white militia men felt that Obama wasn't a legitimate president.  That they're obviously ignoring "real proof" presented to them.  And that everything "The Man™" does is justified to stop the home-grown terrorists.

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They have to tell the world something when the first of the shooting starts.

They'll say that racist, anarchist, back-woods, white militia men felt that Obama wasn't a legitimate president.  That they're obviously ignoring "real proof" presented to them.  And that everything "The Man™" does is justified to stop the home-grown terrorists.

nip it in the butt, people are waking up.

it is a failed argument

stop listening to Beck/limbaugh, they are pushing this. They work for Rockefeller/Rothschild/Beatrix.  Give me a break...

IMUS GOT FIRED FOR NOTHING!!! NOTHING!!!!

Actually he got fired because he exposed the war lies every morning for 4 hours a day on TV and radio.