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| French rap artists produce violent anti-French works |
| 2005-09-23 |
| by Olivier Guitta, The Weekly Standard EFL. You thought Kayne West was bad . . . . . . the kingpin of rapping French Francophobes is Mr. R. In his latest single--entitled "FranSSe," from the March 2005 album "PolitiKment IncorreKt"--he likens France to the Third Reich, singing: "France is a bitch, don't forget to f--her to exhaustion. You have to treat her like a whore, man! . . . France is one of the bitches who gave birth to you. . . . I am not at home and I don't give a damn, and besides the state can go f--itself. . . . I pee on Napoleon and General De Gaulle. . . . My niggers and my Arabs, our playground is the street with the most guns. . . . F--ing cops, sons of whores. . . . France is a lousy mother who abandoned her sons on the sidewalk. . . . My Muslim brothers are hated like my Jewish brothers were during the Reich"--at which point Mr. R's video shows footage of Hitler and of Nazi concentration camps. The video borders on pornography. It shows violent acts supposedly committed by the French Army. France is represented by two naked white women called "Gauloises" (a reference to the ancient inhabitants of France) who perform lewd acts with the French flag while a group of blacks make an obscene gesture. As a disclaimer Mr. R says, "When I speak of France, I don't mean the French people but their leaders. They've been exploiting us for a long time, from slavery to colonization, and they're still jerking us around." Tellingly, in the last words of the song, "France" is replaced by "Europe": "Europe is a bitch, don't forget to f--her to exhaustion. You have to treat her like a whore, man!"--which suggests that the rapper's grievances extend past France to include much of the West. Wonder if that violates any EU regulations? French intellectuals, journalists, and music critics have taken all this in stride. Fnac, the largest French chain of music stores, selected "PolitiKment IncorreKt" as its top featured album. Fnac's fawning review of the CD says: "And what if the subversive spirit of rock had made its way into French rap? . . . Monsieur R: a revelation." On July 16, Mr. R was among the lead performers at the prestigious Francofolies music festival in La Rochelle. Last month, Francois Grosdidier, a member of parliament from President Chirac's party, called on the minister of Justice to ban the broadcast of the video and take up legal action against Mr. R for "incitement to racism and hatred." The press reacted with outrage--against Grosdidier. The left-wing daily Libération denounced this harassment of rappers as futile. Mr. R, responding to the charge of anti-French racism, stuck to his guns: He's only talking about French leaders, he said, not the French people. As he told the newsmagazine Le Point, "I am not anti-French. I am a Belgian citizen." Another outspoken defender of Mr. R is Olivier Besancenot, head of the Communist Revolutionary League and a rising star of the French left. In 2002 at the age of 29, Besancenot ran in the first round of the presidential election and came in eighth out of 16 candidates, with over 4 percent of the votes. He actually performs--raps--on Mr. R's latest album. He told Libération that criticism of the video amounted to an "infringement of the freedom of expression." . . . With luck this new phenomenon might turn out to be a fad which peters out, the way anti-police, anti-white gangsta rap did in America after the early '90s. But in the meantime it will be interesting to see if the French will enforce their laws against racism and anti-Semitism--the toughest in Europe--against this homegrown anti-Western hatred. JFM, your thoughts? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 Barbara That reminds me my theory about affirmative action. Before it when a black applied for a high position (say engineer) the guy who reviewed him knew he was as good as a white one technically and in fact he had some additional qualities who had allowed him to overcome an unfavourable environment. So if the recruiter had no prejudice our black engineer would get the job. Thanks to affirmative action our recruiter now suspects our black engineer to not even being able to integrate x2dx so who gets the job? You guessed it: the son of a pro-affirmative action bleeding heart liberal. And IMHO that was EVER THE GOAL. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-09-23 16:14 |
| #5 JFM - sound like what the leftists in the US want for all the black people here. And they're working mightely to achieve it (racist bastards that they are). :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-09-23 11:51 |
| #4 Just to complete my previous assertions: the mixed race couples you see in France, or more exactly in the Parisian region, are about 90% black man and white woman. Also Blacks are non-existant in corporate France (1) and also find that they will have a hard time getting acredit when they want to create their company. In fact I have heard that a number of them are emigrating to the US despite New Orleans and the daily lynchings (or so tells the French MSM) (1) Some context here: in France your scholar performance is crucial: very, very few people raise to the top who didn't come from one of the top engineer or managerial schools, however in order to enter them it is MUCH better to have been in one of the LEADING post-high school "classes preparatoires" and in order to get into one of the LEADING classes you need to have been a top performer in high school, preferently in a school respected by the staff of the classe preparatoire. And that is how childs of uninformed people end in mediocre classes preparatoires or even worse, at university, who in France is mediocre and not a way to success or even employment. Black parents don't know about all this so even when they don't let their children to fall into the "rap culture" who despise studies their children will not go to the right classes. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-09-23 10:49 |
| #3 There is (unfortunately IMHO) a very active rap scene in France, even if that surprizes you and doesn't fit into your tired anglos stereotypes. Two remarks... - This really fits with the truly racists theme of the muslim/arab-african street counterculture : white french men are unmanly "bolos" (that's bourgeois lopettes, lit. bourgeois wimps, designed as "victims" since they're alone and cannot fight) who must pay and apologize for everything they've done wrong in the past and present, while white wimmen are sluts to be sexually exploited (to see an extrem version of this trend, cf. the very Un-PC predominance of white victims and muslim aggressors in rape cases; according to a study, about 75-80% of gangrapists are non-european, while the vast majority of vicitms are ethnic french girls, and the results of similar studies are the same in Netherland and Sweden, by the way). This is a victimization/diabolization culture that is influenced by "traditional" anti-white racial prejudice from the countries of origin, religious prejudice (the true men are muslims, christianity is the religion of pedophilia and homosexuality), and US gangsta rap. - This also fits with the "indigènes" movement, that is the leftist movement that states that France has a "colonial" gestion of its migrants, and that the arabs-africans are the true "indigenous population" of France, while ethnic frenchs are colonizers. Theses islamo-leftists are ideologically preparing themselves for an ethnic war, using the said victimization/diabolization of the street counterculture; while they are very marginal, they have links to more mainstream players, mostly the "antiracist" trotskysts/communists orgs and the far-left (cf. Besancenot'stance on Mr. R). All this to say this is serious matter, and should not be treated lightly; unfortunetely, the MSM are fully playing into their game, and so is the power : the promoted and enforced (through trials and legislation) ideology is multiculturalism and metissage (always in the same way, one white woman and one colored manb, this is VERY visible in most commercials, movies, tv shows,...). I'm of mixed ethnic background (asian, mostly, though I look like a swiss, unlike my cousins), my nièce is black, my uncle is nepalese,... but this insistance on "submissive" race-mixing and fascination for islam truly wouldf be enough to make me a white supremascist, lol.... even, if I would do a piss-poor example of the Master Race. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-09-23 10:21 |
| #2 On the side of ythe rappers what we have is the same kind of culture who extended between the African Americans: they wear trainers even when obviously have done no sport in their life, do nothing at school because that is "being white"(I have heard this is not the case of Jamaicans who go to America), so they get no marketable qualifications and when later they find no job they attribute it to racism (in case they don't find themseleves the "explanation" the French leftists will be quick to make them think about it). The truth is that France is both very racist and not at all: couples of mixed races are quite common but at th same time there is a complete insensitivity about France's crimes in Africa. The million dead in Rwanda and the support to the genociders haven't traduced in the loss of a single vote for the French politicians involved. Well, except mine of course. My thought is that the politicians will cave at the perspective of having to face the mobilization of the MSM and the intellectuals for the 'freedom of expression' (who in rance is something very selective) |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-09-23 07:51 |
| #1 Oh, Boy! FRENCH RAP!!! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-23 06:59 |