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Originally posted by Dreamstone
Nans is just trolling at this point. Ignore her and she will just go away.
She's irrelevant, just like the rest of the french
By the early 19th century the Congo River had become a major avenue of commerce between the coast and the interior. Henry Morton Stanley, a British journalist, explored the river in 1877, but France acquired jurisdiction in 1880 when Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signed a treaty with the Tio ruler. The formal proclamation of the colony of French Congo came in 1891. Early French efforts to exploit their possession led to ruthless treatment of the local people, and Brazza returned in 1905 to lead an inquiry. In 1910 the French joined Congo with neighbouring colonies as the federation of French Equatorial Africa, with its capital at Brazzaville.
The French were preoccupied with acquiring labour. Forced labour, head taxes, compulsory production of cash crops, and draconian labour contracts forced Africans to build infrastructure and to participate in the colonial economy. No project was more costly in African lives than the Congo-Ocean Railway, built between 1921 and 1934 from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville; between 15,000 and 20,000 Africans died.
All sections of mainstream politics in France have participated in the dirty game of baiting North African Arabs in France. In the early 1980s, the large and very influential Communist Party led racist demonstrations to physically attack districts in which North African Arabs and other African immigrants lived. In the most outrageous of these incidents, in 1983 a Parisian PCF mayor personally drove a bulldozer into a building housing immigrant workers from Mali. The PCF supported the French state against Muslim Algeria, when the latter was fighting for its independence. Today, the PCF opposes all new immigration, and approves of the state�s witchhunt of so-called �illegal� immigrants. When it was in government again in the 1990s, the Socialist Party enforced a tough immigration policy.
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
What I got against america ?
You bored everyone on earth ! You spitted on U.N., screaming and shooting that Iraq was a threat for your security and know you are in sh*t till neck with the Iraq people, you call U.N. to come and give you hand.
XXXX OFF ! Stay in you're sh*t, now ! You wanted to free Iraq, you have freed Iraq ! Assume you're position now.
Today Rumself and Another Secretary admitted that they would leave Iraq and go back in the good ol' mothernation as soon as possible.
Funny ! You was hurry to come in Iraq and now you better know how are the arabs, you are hurry to come back home !
You should listen to France, because we have a long experience of arabs, and we know how they are.
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
Why do you put all the french people in the same bag ?
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
I know that, I mean colony, etc...and I know this history probably better than you. You are trying to make feel less guilty of your countries actual exaction by accusing my country...
It's not how things goes.
You must have a criticize look on your country act, and by the way, give alittle bit less importance to patriotism and a little bit more to humanism.
I know when my country is wrong, you don't know me but I'm militant, to make things better, stop and condamn the warcrimes and obtain repairs for the colonized nations.
Errr... this thread is going insane and senseless. I tought someone would close it when I've started posting some songs lyrics, but no.
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
But you are basically racists.
It's the only argument you have : HATE !
Originally posted by infiniteYes, but you said France knows how to treat arabs, but they don't.
Me a racist? please do explain how i am a racist....
Originally posted by infinite
No you said "we know how they",
but still, France treated arabs as the American did or even worse. You cannot slam American policy if France did the exact same.
[Edited on 16-5-2004 by infinite]
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
France colonized countries, sure, but bring them positives things like science, medecine, education...
We buildt schools, hospitals, and some others infrastructures in colonies.
We used to consider the colony just like France. We didn't bomb them by two times.
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
I'm not sure that when you will go from Iraq, even ONE IRAQI will receive an education from you.
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
What I got against america ?
You bored everyone on earth ! You spitted on U.N., screaming and shooting that Iraq was a threat for your security and know you are in sh*t till neck with the Iraq people, you call U.N. to come and give you hand.
You should listen to France, because we have a long experience of arabs, and we know how they are.