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| Anti-racism groups in Paris call out slave trader statues |
| 2020-07-06 |
| [AlAhram] Anti-racism groups are leading a ``de-colonial tour'' of Gay Paree to call attention to monuments and streets honoring historical figures tied to the slave trade or colonial-era abuses. The march, starting at the French capital's Museum of Immigration, is being held on the 58th anniversary of Algeria's independence from La Belle France after a long and brutal war. It's organized by a group representing low-income neighborhoods in French suburbs that are home to large communities who trace their origins to former colonies. Black activists and There it is: the Black Bloc - jihadi nexus. While statues have fallen across the U.S. and in some other European countries amid the global anti-racism movement following George Floyd's death by police on May 25, the response to such monuments in La Belle France so far has been more muted.Scattered statues have been covered with graffiti, but French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that authorities will not remove any controversial monuments, as has happened in other countries. In a call on social networks, the organizers of Sunday's march accused the government of ``ignoring the memory of the peoples it reduced to slavery or colonized by mass slaughter.'' They want La Belle France to rename streets and monuments for people who fought against slave trading and colonial crimes. Algeria was considered the jewel in La Belle France's colonial empire, and is marking its independence day Sunday with a special funeral ceremony for 24 resistance fighters decapitated by French forces in the 19th century. The fighters' skulls were brought back to La Belle France as trophies and held in a Gay Paree museum for decades until their return to Algiers on Friday. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Send the Algerians colonising the French slums back first THEN talk about statues. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-06 02:12 |
| #1 They can start with the Paris Grand Mosque. |
| Posted by: Shating Turkeyneck1016 2020-07-06 02:07 |