"Black Americans, don't be surprised if someone slyly offers you 'niggerheads' for dessert: They're racist as all get-out in France. They just won't admit it - even to themselves - just ask the Jews.

But, of course, they demand that Americans must have a black president, while France doesn't have a black anything. They don't even like printing the word 'black' in newspapers. Hell, I once went to the equivalent of a Home Depot in France and they didn't even have black paint!" 

- TMR, July 1, 2009

"In a country that takes pride and expends considerable energy to ensure that the principle of "egalite" (equality) is strictly adhered to, there are some racial references practically embedded in the language and culture here.

"Negre" is the N-word in France, and it is used in ways that would raise eyebrows elsewhere. A "negre," for example, is a ghostwriter in French, "tete de negre" is the name for a chocolate pastry, and "petit negre" is the way one refers to poor or pidgin French."

- CNN, November 29, 2013

 

ELLE France's beauty editor, Jeanne Deroo, who is French (the folks who want you to know, despite their disgusting history, are not racist) "honoring" a black person (non-racially) because (after France's long, evil, and bloody racial history) she didn't know she was doing wrong - until someone black told her. I'm surprised she listened then. 

That's how things "work" in totally non-racial environments non-racial blacks (try to) maneuver non-racially - otherwise, they're out of the non-racial jobs the non-racists, like Jeanne Deroo, hold over their trying-to-be-non-racial heads - which is as fair and non-racial as it gets.

BTW - Jeanne Deroo will apologize (has apologized) and the controversy's all over, for her, now.

That's totally fair - by NewAge standards - and completely non-racial,...

Having suffered under this weight for so long, as a black American, there's something about the truth, and boots - and running around the world - that seems relevant to my predicament. Never you mind. I wrote a blog about it, and it goes a little something like this:

"France Remains Most Racist Country In Western Europe"

Cue the accordion music - for the always-enamoured American press:

Unlike TMR, they've told us everything,...

 

What else is TMR supposed to do with this?

"The single greatest task for conservatives is to fix their own leadership problems. In so doing they must avoid the single greatest mistake Obama has made, which is to rely on fantasy. The facts, however unpalatable. The truth, no matter how bitter.”

 So they're back to slapping themselves in the face - like it's instinct - admitting they can't stay rooted in reality.

"Fully considered, it becomes obvious that Rand’s views congeal into a fatally flawed philosophy. Even when stripped of its atheistic elements, Objectivism’s focus on radical individualism cuts it off from reality and causes it to wither under scrutiny. And as much as we might admire Rand’s deep-rooted hatred of collectivism, her philosophy is still just another utopian dream, a transvalued Marxism.

Ultimately, Rand’s egoism is irreconcilable with both Christianity and capitalism. In fact, since the system fails to have any true explanatory value, it’s difficult to find any reason to adopt Objectivism at all. Fortunately, we don’t have to buy into Rand’s philosophical errors in order to appreciate her fiction. We just have to keep in mind that instead of reading a 'novel of ideas', we are reading a work of fantasy."

 But they still can't admit they're doing it again. And this time, because they've lied to everybody - including themselves - so many times before.

"Rob Ford drug use leaves Conservatives uneasy, MP suggests

Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says federal Conservatives 'not fans' of hard drug users"

 Spoiler Alert: 

I think the betrayal of Benghazi line is done now.

"The French position on race is that you can come from anywhere and become French, as long as you speak French, adopt French customs, and act French.

That’s great, but they have a hard time with difference, people who maintain customs, dress, or religion that makes them appear different. And, in the case of black people, we are conspicuously different no matter how French we feel."

 "The facts, however unpalatable. The truth, no matter how bitter” is, conservatives have reduced the enterprise of governing to soap opera, displaying all the signs of bad actors (pun intended) who - like the French - are fun to watch, but still deserving of contempt and comeuppance.

  “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

 History shows the answers devised, for even the country's obvious flaws, were always long in coming, and most only after a long fight - why, that has to be so, is the question.

  “These Negroes, they’re getting uppity these days. That’s a problem for us, since they got something now they never had before. The political pull to back up their upityness. Now, we’ve got to do something about this. We’ve got to give them a little something. Just enough to quiet them down, but not enough to make a difference. If we don’t move at all, their allies will line up against us. And there’ll be no way to stop them. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

 I've always voted for nailing things down with facts.

  “I’m thinking about making a new cult for some extra cash on the side. What sort of preparations should I make?”

 That conservatives are back to adopting my position makes the question, of whether they are highly deliberative or of low I.Q., very real.

  "I love his premise that because Oprah is African American and successful, that means racism doesn’t exist.  If you want to talk about ignorance, that is absolute ignorance.  Seriously, racism doesn’t exist because there are successful African Americans?

During segregation there were successful African Americans.  Does that mean during segregation racism wasn’t an issue? This is the simple-minded ignorance that’s rampant throughout the entire Republican party.  It’s the kind of shallow talk that gets conservatives to stand and applaud because it sounds right—when in fact it doesn’t make any damn sense whatsoever."

I assumed they'd know how to pop a clutch, you know what I mean?

 

"France is the least racist country in the world. Is that clear? I see it. French people do not judge people by their skin colour or their origin. As long as people are well behaved, respectful of French people and of France’s values, they have welcomed them. Welcomed too many, in fact."

“France’s Socialist government reacted with fury to its credit rating being downgraded yet again because of high taxes, unemployment and public spending.

Standard & Poor (S&P) poured humiliation on President Francois Hollande and his ministers on Friday by cutting its AA+ to AA.

The move comes almost two years after the country lost its top-rated AAA status.

S&P said it was applying another cut because Socialist reforms showed no prospects of leading to economic growth.”

“Do you ever find yourself starting your sentences with a long 'Baaaah' and a shoulder shrug - even when you're speaking English?”

The way this country - America - upholds France's false image of itself, as a paradise of sophistication, is disgusting:

"France's first black newsreader says country is blighted by 'deep-seated racism' after monkey chants were aimed at black minister"

American whites are complicit, too, for playing along,...

“We’ll have fifty niggers in the Chamber of Deputies.”

“By their long and bitter struggle for independence, St. Domingue’s blacks were instrumental in allowing the United States to more than double the size of its territory,…the decisive contribution made by the black freedom fighters … went almost unnoticed by the Jeffersonian administration.”

Long before many other genres, African-Americans found a place in horror. Perhaps because the origin of the word “zombie” itself is rooted in Haitian Creole, with the very concept tied to Vodou or Voodoo, as it is more popularly written. While popular culture has turned “voodoo” into a freak show, it is actually a religion with deep West African roots that is believed to mingle those roots with the Roman Catholicism that was forced upon enslaved Africans from there. In this country, New Orleans is the “voodoo” epicenter, with the practice taking rise in the late 1790s and 1800s as those fleeing Saint Domingue, the one-time French colony, during the tumultuous Haitian Revolution sought refuge there.

"We are sorry and issue an official apology for our involvement and the involvement of our ancestors in the horrible institution of transatlantic slavery. The United States of America, France, and the United Kingdom should issue similar formal apologies for this evil institution that broke up families and caused generational hardships that continue to the present day."

Here, a cult can get away with murder, but in France: 

Scientology is fraud. 

They know whine and cheese after all,...

I don't know what the Tea Party types wanted from TMR.

When I reflected France the way I saw it - a crowd just tried to drown a police officer at the beach, BTW - did I join in the lying?

TMR shows you the way things really are.

There's been no talk of "principles" while facing demands for fairness.

Why would I do that?

As Americans we should be speaking the same language.

Instead the Tea Party turned French.

There's no way for TMR to fix that online.

We are contributing without our humanity; we're just our ideas.

But it ain't hard to tell who's got good ones and who doesn't.

Unfortunately, the Tea's miscalculated blacks weren't too bright.

Our place was made very clear.

But there's even a real way of looking at the same things.

So I've reflected the Tea Party Congress the way it is - it was just announced “The votes aren’t there” again, BTW - I wouldn't join in the lying.

And this hasn't been the Tea Party's best - they've missed the mark.

Mostly because they've forgotten how they've looked.

As not acting in good faith.

They lost the fight - in public - fair and square.

But now, for a lot of reasons, they can't accept the change.

Insisting on "negotiations" after the deal is done.

Imagining they're engaged in some epic struggle.

None of it was ever real.

The truth is the Teas lost in the world of ideas a long time ago.

So it was TMR's duty to show that - not to join in the lying.

Admit they did it to themselves. 

That was TMR's job.

You can't win a fight against an immovable object.

I told 'em to stop.

So now they've got the reality they wanted,...