why was my question turned into a racists issue?

Question

having asked how many Frenchmen played for France in the world cup, I received several answers accusing me of being racist. I say to those people to take a good look at themselves as they cannot see beyond the colour of a mans skin which is reflected in their petty small minded answers!!!!! The question was about qualification to play in the team and nothing to do with race. However because 90% of the players were black, these stupid morons had to turn it into a race issue. Don't these people realise that they are the ones who are creating racism by constantly drawing attention to the colour of a mans skin?????

Answer 1

I don't know. The whole team were french citizens, but I think most were born outside of France, and became citizens later.

Answer 2

Political correctness just censors people and censorship is worse than anything everybody should be able say what they want whatever happened to free speech it has been lost due to governments that want to control what we say do and think - political correctness - political - politicians - bastards. There is even censorship on this and other chat lines what are they worried about. Censorship leads to people being controlled and abused. Free speech - shout out the window "I have had enough and I am not going to take any more". The French are arrogant people anyway - every French person I have met is up their own Khyber Pass just take a look at Zinedine Zidane and he is the Hero of France so just goes to show - he is arrogant beyond belief - ok so he can kick a football so what.
You are right the old French genetics can not play football they have a lot of immigrants and this is the genetics that has helped them do well in sport of all kinds just like England!

Answer 3

I totally agree with you!!!!

Many speak about racism but the true racists are they.

The real problem is that if you speak about diversity you are racist!!!!!!! If you say that a black men has a different origin then a white you are racist!!!

The French black player are not of French origin, but they come, for example, from Algeria (Zidane), from Senegal (Viera), from Zaire (Makele) ..... their passport is French but their origin not, but this is not racism is only the truth.

Around the racism there is much hypocrisy, now goes much fashionable ones to fight against racism, but this is not the just way.

We are not all equal ones and this is a good and if someone says it, he does not have to be attcacked. The diversity goes asserted not denied, the important is that nobody think that one is better of the other, I am white man and I'm not equal to a black one, but nobody of the two is better!

Another thing....often the real racism is not betwen white and black, see for example the much bad words used during and after the WC2006 against Italy. I'm Italian and I'm not happy to hear that Italian people are thieves, racists, divers, complaining, that they did not deserve the cup....
Italy has played well and won and it has deserve the cup, they didn't made nothing of different from the other team, but we remain thieves, divers...... Also this is racism!

Answer 4

The race card will continue to be played, ad infinitum, because it is convenient to do so, and not because it has any current basis in fact. Cultural differences should be respected, but not shoved in everyone's face and used as an excuse for poor judgement. I am descended from Holocaust victims, but I don't in everyone's face, because it has nothing to do with life as I live it today. If I decided that I wanted to take the easy path and blame everything that went wrong in my life on that, what kind of person would I be? Don't use the race card, rise above it and become a valuable member of society.

Answer 5

G'day Billyfreddy2,

Thank you for your question.

Jean-Marie Le Pen have complained about the multi-racial nature of the team,

Since the 1990s, the French national team has been held up as an example of the modern multicultural French ideal. The team has found great international sporting success while remaining ethnically and racially diverse, featuring players from the overseas departments or players who are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants from former French colonial possessions. Zinedine Zidane and Franck Ribéry are Muslims; Zidane is the child of immigrants from Algeria; Lilian Thuram, William Gallas and Thierry Henry are all of Antillean origin, the first two coming from the overseas department of Guadaloupe and Henry the child of parents born in Guadaloupe and Martinique; Florent Malouda was born in French Guiana; Patrick Vieira immigrated as a child from Senegal.

All this has been met with great frustration by members of the more xenophobic elements of French society, and the team has a long history of confrontation with National Front politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. The "Black, Blanc, Beur" 1998 team won the World Cup seemingly in response to Le Pen's complaints that the team did not look sufficiently "French". In 2002, led by Ghana-born Marcel Desailly, the French team unanimously publicly appealled to the French voting public to reject the presidential candidacy of Le Pen and instead return President Jacques Chirac to office in a landslide.

In 2004, a TV crew caught Spanish coach Luis Aragonés motivating Thierry Henry's Arsenal teammate José Antonio Reyes in a strange way. The phrase used was "Demuestra que eres mejor que ese negro de mierda", meaning 'Show that you're better than that ****** black guy'. After an investigation, UEFA fined the RFEF 100,000 Swiss francs and warned that future incidents would be punished more severely, from suspension from major international tournaments or the closure of Spain's home international matches to supporters. Henry and Nike started the Stand Up Speak Up campaign against football racism as a result of the incident.

In 2006, the team reached another World Cup final, exacting some poetic justice by elminating Aragonés' Spanish team along the way. Once again, their truimphs came amidst criticism from Le Pen that coach Raymond Domenech had selected too many black players. The Zidane-Materazzi headbutt incident in the final and its aftermath served as a symbol for the larger issue of Europe's struggle with its emerging multicultural identity. It had been widely speculated that Marco Materazzi had made a racial slur about Zidane's Muslim background, though this was denied by both players. Furthermore, the makeup of the teams which contested the title match were easy to contrast; while Les Bleus was ethnically and racially diverse, the Azzurri had no minorities.

In that context, your question was interpreted in racial terms given that the French far right had made so much of the issue. In response to your earlier question, all of them

I have attached some sources for your reference.

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Answer 6

Your premise is wrong so your conclusion is WRONG. YOU brought up the issue of skin color and it was responded to by others. I did not know the percentage of black players..... because it wasn't important. The theory is that best players play; had the French team consisted of 90% white; would you have asked the question why only 10% of the was comprised of minorities when France minority population is now 36 %... NO, sorry a mirror was held up to you so that you finally get exposed for the underlying cause of your questioning and reasoning. DEAL WITH IT.

Answer 7

I just read you question about the french team and I'm not going to judge you based on that question alone.I'm currently living in the Caribbean and many of the players on the french national team have roots in the french caribbean islands such as Martinique and Guadeloupe. These islands if you research on wikipedia, are part of France, they're not independent and a part of the european union. Hence many players of afro-caribbean heritage qualify to play on the french national team!

Answer 8

Has anyone been to france? Most of France is black anyway.
The French equivelant of our BNP were asking the French people not to support their country in the world cup final for that reason so the racism is rife everywhere.

Answer 9

There are continuously unprincipled those who're prepared to take finished earnings of any situation or opportune concern to further their own ends. averting duty and taking section in the sufferer ends up in a huge pay-off, all too typically. regrettably, it has grow to be a "occupation" for some in in the present day's international. that's deplorable. So sure ... with the right motivation (or could I say "the incorrect motivation") ... some people will visit tremendous lengths to "invent" something that basically isn't there. seem heavily - because what you be conscious ought to purely be on the floor - the reality is below.

Answer 10

The problem is that there is no such a thing called an ethnic French (opposed to ethnic German or Spaniard for example) since the country was more or less built on immigration. Before Arabs and African people who immigrated to France were Europeans. This didn't happen in other european countries. France is a melting pot.