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Discuss “Race not ready to be non-issue”

For many Americans, the French seem inexplicably different, embodying everything that is ?European.? Recently, however, more astute citizens have seen that we have something very grave in common with France: a national underclass that is unrecognized, underappreciated, and now reacting in a horrific but sadly familiar way.

The Parisian riots have revealed the disenfranchisement and dissatisfaction of a growing class of French who are predominately young, and of foreign heritage. Racial, generational, and economic aspects of their inequality cannot be ignored, neither by the French government nor by the international community.

France?s efforts at eradicating racism have backfired. After the carnage of the Algerian Revolution in the 1950s and...

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