got some GOOD NEWS for all yall american conservatives (and others) who so fervently despise racial quotas, affirmative action and them damn non-european 'dash americans' (afro-americans, african-americans, mexican-americans,etc as opposed to perfectly good ol' german-, irish-, italian-, even franco-americans).
and it don't have a thing to do with geico neither.
fact is, you have an ideological ally in, of all places, france.
in the aftermath of last month's 14 days of rioting in france, the french government is in a quandry. even if it wanted to cop to having significant racism and discrimination issues--the kind one might suspect following two weeks of unruly mobs torching cars and other property to protest being the victims of racism and discrimination--it's unable to do so.
facts such as these
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- there are no African or Arab heads of companies on the benchmark CAC 40 stock index. No member of parliament from France, excluding non-European territories, is black or Arab
- Towns largely populated by immigrants and their families have youth unemployment rates as high as 40 percent, more than four times the national average
- Only 0.6 percent of the 5.2 million people with government jobs in France are of North African background
are pretty much irrelevant because france has no idea how many of its citizens are of african, arab or eropean origin because that kinda data isn't solicited nor maintained to insure absolute equality for all. in france, there are no morrocan-french, algerian-french or tunisan-french.
"Discrimination against North Africans and blacks, to call them by their names, whether they are French or not, is widely practiced with impunity,'' Roger Fauroux, head of a commission on discrimination in the workplace, wrote in a Sept. 8 report handed to the labor and housing ministry
"In France it is unthinkable to ask people their religion or ethnic origin, so it is very difficult to measure the efficiency of any initiatives,'' Fauroux said.
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, research director at the Center of International Studies and Research in Paris, calls this lack of statistical references a ``blindspot'' at the center of the national debate over integration
'but meez de wendon,' i can hear yall asking. 'eez non theez 'blindspot' un vrai good theeng because eet eez un blindspot du colour? eez theez not zee way to guar-rawn-tee every ceet-ez-zen zee right to leev free from le grande frere's meddleeng?'
it's not often one gets an opportunity to see how things coulda been if only the powers what be had the good sense to listen. thanks to your ol buddy france, perhaps we won't have to expend so much energy arguing those points--at least for a lil while--nor be forced to learn these lessons by experience rather than example.