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So the most listened to (internationally) French artist happens to be a Black woman, her artist name is Aya Nakamura. She is the only woman in France in the top 20 of the most listened to artists. She was born in Mali (Bamako) came in France as a young child with her family and she now has the French citizenship.

She might be the one singing (a song from Edith Piaf) during the Olympics opening ceremony in France.

Again she is the most famous French artists right now internationally.

White people are putting signs saying “No way for Aya, this is Paris not the market of Bamako”. That’s how racist France is.

But wanna know the icing on the cake? The reaction of some politicians on the left. Sandrine Rousseau defending Aya by saying that it would give the image of a “tolerant and open” France. This is all about “image” they don’t want to stop being racists pieces of shit they want to be able to do it while still looking good and anti racists.

You say “this is Paris not Bamako” meanwhile when Black and Arabs undocumented workers went on strike the construction site of the Olympics had to fucking slow down and stop in some sites because there was enough undocumented workers on those construction sites that their absence meant not being able to continue.

You say “this is Paris not Bamako” meanwhile the only reason your health system hasn’t completely collapsed is because 1 doctor out of 4 is born abroad. Some of your hospitals would close without foreign doctors (Algerians represent almost 25% of the foreign doctors in France.

So you know what? This is Bamako. This is Algiers. This is Dakar. Without us you wouldn’t be a rich country. If you didn’t want us here you shouldn’t have colonized our people and shouldn’t keep looting our countries while financing corrupted governments, organizing assassinations of rulers who want to decolonize Africa and organizing uprising against them.

(P.S: Le premier qui vient défendre Sandrine Rousseau je le bloque ici on soutient la gauche révolutionnaire et porteuse de valises pas la gauche avec des relents de paternalisme colonial qui bégaie dès qu’il faut prendre position correctement contre le racisme)

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—Mississippi Masala (1991)

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"enshittification" we need to start saying capitalism. the products are decreasing in quality because of the profit motivated economic system folks 😩 it's a feature it came free with capitalism

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Emmy Magazine's interview with Carol Cutshall. Read the full magazine for free by clicking on the green cover with Conan O'Brien!

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I saw your tags Ryan Destiny though is better than what I saw because At least she has acted.

I saw someone say "Normani is right there!" Normani is not even an actor! I don't think she's even had a cameo in a movie or TV show before let alone performed Shakespeare on stage

It's actually so offensive people are bringing up random dark skin women who either can't act or don't have it in them to do theatre production

The way people are conceding ground to the right is crazy

Literally no fucking fight and suggesting random mixed race women who aren't stage actors

Remember when the right wing would say it should be based on talent but now that's not the case. Best person for the job, no thanks. Right wingers want to make existing in the public as anything but a white man as exhausting and frightening as possible and some people are saying " I don't want to fuck this person so they have a point"

Ask your mother why she didn't abort you. Please

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oh, thats zionist propaganda in my knuckles the echidna show

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This the same newspaper that was pushing out lies about EU membership and the referendum.

The UK have discovered they have in fact reached the "Find Out" part...

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saw a sign that said "honor aaron bushnell, free palestine" and man. why don't we honor the 40,000+ palestinians martyred in the last 200+ days. why don't we honor the palestinians who israel has maassacred in the last 75+ years. why don't we honor the palestinian villages wiped off the map. why don't we honor the entire lineages whom israel murdered. idk maybe yall need to think about why it took a white man self immolating for you to care about palestine!

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I don't like Sexy Redd's music, I don't hate it but I do like the songs that have been altered or remixed or covered

Maybe I don't like her voice/cadence

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Yeah it's really pissing me off how people still keep naming American TV/movie actresses or models.

Name 5 Black British theatre actresses bet you they can't because they still think it's a movie. Still going around saying how the movie will bomb. The movie styling better be good, and so on.

I remember people were saying the same shit about Micheala Coel dissecting her looks up and down during Chewing Gum days.

It's actually so offensive people are bringing up random dark skin women who either can't act or don't have it in them to do theatre production

The way people are conceding ground to the right is crazy

Literally no fucking fight and suggesting random mixed race women who aren't stage actors

Remember when the right wing would say it should be based on talent but now that's not the case. Best person for the job, no thanks. Right wingers want to make existing in the public as anything but a white man as exhausting and frightening as possible and some people are saying " I don't want to fuck this person so they have a point"

Ask your mother why she didn't abort you. Please

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