Affirmative Action Coming to France
Having a black news anchor for six weeks is a big deal in France:
In a country with more blacks on its national soccer team (13 of the 23 players) than in the 577-member National Assembly (10, none from the mainland), Roselmack’s sudden celebrity has highlighted how rare it still is here to see minorities in prominent posts.
It has also given a boost to France’s growing black empowerment movement.
They don’t seem to have a grasp on that whole liberté, égalité, fraternité thing just yet. Oh well, it’s only been 217 years.
