tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595398753131290281.post1486470926979328542..comments2024-03-14T23:42:44.959+01:00Comments on AFRO-EUROPE: Video: "Noirs de France" ("Blacks of France”) - The history of Black people in FranceAfro-Europehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09824302981015575893noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595398753131290281.post-1981154325567838262013-02-21T05:31:23.331+01:002013-02-21T05:31:23.331+01:00Thank you everyone for sharing your personal exper...Thank you everyone for sharing your personal experiences and oppinions. I am an African American woman of French descendant from New Jersey, USA. I wanted to find out more about the culture and you've helped me to want to know more.<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />Bella VittoriaBella Vittoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12501301334437695777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595398753131290281.post-78693937376379918672012-07-07T11:38:43.626+02:002012-07-07T11:38:43.626+02:00Misha M, thanks for the comments. You have just sh...Misha M, thanks for the comments. You have just shared a piece of French history and personal experience you don't hear about very often. So, thank you very much for sharing this!Afro-Europehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09824302981015575893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595398753131290281.post-54439731179425594762012-07-07T00:43:49.412+02:002012-07-07T00:43:49.412+02:00I did mention my white boyfriend,because maybe the...I did mention my white boyfriend,because maybe the other way around we have a lot of that sexist situation where a successful Black man associate power and being on top with having a white woman on his arm.Of course we are talking about having a lighter descendance,but we can´t generalize this phenomenon to every body.And I do add that mixed couples in Europe don´t form for the same reason as in the US.We are actually second and third generation raised together,we are a melting pot of different origins that grew together and a lot of barriers fell down long ago.<br />And when it comes to Black couples,I´m sorry to say that it was my first choice as a natural thing but I didn´t found the respect and the trust I was looking for in the relationship 20 years ago...<br />And I´m not saying this only for Caribbean men,I did date African,Brazilian an Afro American...<br />What I mean is that we as Black mothers are not giving the necessary legacy to our off springs for them to change their behaviour with the next generation,they still repeat bad habits seen from their grandfathers and fathers.And sadly this still today where ever you come from the majority.<br />Personally I believe in passing on my ethnical heritage to my kids but I do believe as well in the mix,I´m the result of a very interesting one as on both side my grandmothers were respectively from Sri Lanka and Polynesia,and the white part one generation earlier was from Brittany.Misha Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10436980771357269813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595398753131290281.post-86634244397849398572012-07-07T00:42:42.851+02:002012-07-07T00:42:42.851+02:00Hello Anonymous from Martinique...
I quite agree w...Hello Anonymous from Martinique...<br />I quite agree with your statement here,I´m personally a Negropolitaine...It means that I was born and raise in Paris and I´m from Martinique origin on both sides of my parents.I more or less had the same perception about our assimilation syndrome as I call it...<br />My mum is one of those Caribbean that came at the end of the sixties through what was called the BUMIDOM.<br />Basically France paid thousands of cheap passages through 6 months of a bad boat trip,so people could arrive and be exploited as third category citizens and cheap labour.The way there were treated on arrival and the fact that the situation didn´t change for many years after,changed this generation for ever.They did lost their identity and pride or part of their dignity and weren´t given the opportunity to have a real and positive assimilation.<br />I´m like many other,the daughter of that generation, and what we learned from the difficulty of our parents is not to make much noise,always know our place in society and of course don´t dream too high and too loud.Because even if we were given access to a good education we knew that after all,we would be confronted to a institutional racism(under the table,not spoken or in your face but real)that would not let us pass from the service job sector.<br />The thing in my case is that I left France 20 years ago for London and then for Spain where I´m an actual resident.The funny thing is,the first part of my journey in England was quite an eye opener to what was happening back home through comparison with the local Caribbean community.I was so chocked to see them in the media(BBC),in politics and owning their businesses,being proud of being different and being who they are.So I learned a big lesson there and stopped finding myself offended when some Jamaican would ask me where I was from and would not take for an answer that I was French.<br />After 10 years there I decided to leave to sunny Spain for love and my boyfriend was English and white I arrived on the small island of Mallorca in 2001 and got myself back to what my mum lived 40 years earlier in Paris...In a place were any Black person had to be from African origin, analphabet,from dubious moral not to say a prostitute and of course an illegal... Needless to say that I had to go through the biggest identity crisis of my life and yes I got myself glued to the English community not because I was ashamed of my ethnic heritage, because there I had respect for as a person,was not questioned on a daily basis about my presence on Spanish soil; but the most important thing was not treated as a cheap sexual object.<br />10 years down the line with a change of geographical situation,I found myself still affected on my daily routine with the local ignorance and racism and I still carry a ship on my shoulder.Misha Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10436980771357269813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7595398753131290281.post-77707440881325723682012-04-24T11:04:46.055+02:002012-04-24T11:04:46.055+02:00Hello there,
I`m an afro-french and I would like ...Hello there,<br /><br />I`m an afro-french and I would like to warn you. I came from Martinique at the age of 15 to live in <br /><br />Paris. I stayed there until 30. So I know very well the condition and mentality of black french. What you read or see <br /><br />about black french "revolution" is not real. Many black french will tell you that they are "black and proud".<br /><br />By wearing dreads, listenning black music, etc... they will try to convince you that they have a strong black identity. <br /><br />However, this comedy tend to fall apart when you are living there.<br /><br />When you are observing them in their daily routine, you find out that most of them want to be black <br /><br />only in the saturday black parties, front of other blacks, etc.. in short where it "looks good" to be black. <br /><br />But when for example they are at work, you found out that this "proudness" tend to disappear.<br /><br />Front of the white french most of them tend to spit openly on their blackness. Once they have the false <br /><br />feeling that they are accepted by the white french establishment, most of them don`t want to be associated whith their community. <br /><br />What you see on TV and so on, it`s people who want to be loved and accepted by the white section of the population. <br /><br />Because for them, in their slave mentality white = privileges. They can become openly racist against <br /><br />the culture of their own parents if this attitude assure them a job, to be accepted in some circles, the heart of a non-afro women etc...<br /><br />They have two faces. What they will tell and show you it`s not what they really think. <br /><br />My advice to you will be to search through the internet the black french football player, the black french musicien, politician, etc...<br /><br />You`ll find out that most of them are married with white european women or very light skin black women: <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmiD-aC_22A<br /><br />Audrey Pulvar<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urL8l6Twp_E<br /><br />Rama yade<br />http://www.parismatch.com/People-Match/Politique/Actu/Joseph-Zimet-le-mari-de-Rama-Yade-201046/<br /><br />Those video and pictures are very indicative about what`s really going on. <br /><br />I`m not saying all of them are like that, but be aware that a big number of them are like that. <br /><br />So don`t get fooled... <br /><br />You can contact me at Kmeoo2003 ( at ) yahoo.frAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com