"La manifestation antiraciste ne mobilise pas."--Le Figaro.
Read on, if you know French, to hear more about how a protest against racism and anti-Semitism, scheduled for yesterday and to be held in Paris and elsewhere in France, never quite got off the ground. But the headline's all you need, really.
I agree and disagree with you, Alex. I did not mean to suggest, in absolute terms, that France is an inherently racist place. In theory, France is in many ways better at fighting racism than is the U.S. But the problems you mention that prevented the "manifestation antiraciste" from taking place are indicative of larger problems in France, which is why there's something sad yet sickly funny about a headline, in French, saying that an anti-racist movement was planned but didn't actually take place.
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