Propos de Pascal Sevran: un dérapage inadmissible.
Dans un entretien à Var matin, publié mercredi 6 décembre, l’animateur de télévision, Pascal Sevran, est revenu sur son dernier livre “Le privilège des jonquilles” où il écrivait: “La bite des noirs est responsable de la famine en Afrique”.
Pascal Sevran, a déclaré : “Et alors ? C’est la vérité ! L’Afrique crève de tous les enfants qui y naissent sans que leurs parents aient les moyens de les nourrir. Je ne suis pas le seul à le dire. Il faudrait stériliser la moitié de la planète ! “.
Le Parti socialiste condamne fermement ces propos, véritable apologie du racisme et de l’eugénisme. Nous demandons également à Patrick de Carolis, Président de France Télévisions, de sanctionner sévèrement leur auteur, dont les déclarations réitérées ne sont pas compatibles avec sa participation au service public de l’audiovisuel.
Nicolas Sarkozy doit aussi dire publiquement s’il se désolidarise de Pascal Sevran, qui compte parmi ses soutiens les plus actifs.
Communiqué de Faouzi Lamdaoui,
Secrétaire national adjoint à l’Egalité et au Partenariat équitable
This is a loose translation of the above quote, with my own comments interspersed. Pascal Sevran is a French TV host. In his latest book, “Le Privilège des Jonquilles,” he says, “The black man’s dick is responsible for hunger in Africa.”
When you hear that for the first time you go… what?, and you try for a second reading. When asked to clarify such an outrageous statement, he said, “So what? It’s the truth! Africa is dying due to all these children being born to parents who have no means of feeding them. I’m not alone to say so. We’re gonna have to castrate half the planet!”
The above quote is from the website of the French Socialist party. The rest of the article just condemns Mr. Sevran and asks him to come out and apologise, as well as Mr. Sarkozy, a presidential hopeful backed by Mr. Sevran.
It took me a while to decide to blog this, and now that I’ve decided to go ahead, I find I have no steam to go full force against Pascal for what he said. My original reluctance of definitely-not-worth-it has come flooding back; and so I’ll leave it at this. The one thought that does keep bugging me, coming back, this little whispering voice in my head, is, “Wow… now they want to slice our dicks off.” Niger has done better than me, Niger has hauled Pascal’s ass to court. His employer has also asked him to apologise or quit.
Tags: Pascal Sevran; Le Privilège des Jonquilles; Racism
Propos de Pascal Sevran: un dérapage inadmissible.
Dans un entretien à Var matin, publié mercredi 6 décembre, l’animateur de télévision, Pascal Sevran, est revenu sur son dernier livre “Le privilège des jonquilles” où il écrivait: “La bite des noirs est responsable de la famine en Afrique”.
Pascal Sevran, a déclaré : “Et alors ? C’est la vérité ! L’Afrique crève de tous les enfants qui y naissent sans que leurs parents aient les moyens de les nourrir. Je ne suis pas le seul à le dire. Il faudrait stériliser la moitié de la planète ! “.
Le Parti socialiste condamne fermement ces propos, véritable apologie du racisme et de l’eugénisme. Nous demandons également à Patrick de Carolis, Président de France Télévisions, de sanctionner sévèrement leur auteur, dont les déclarations réitérées ne sont pas compatibles avec sa participation au service public de l’audiovisuel.
Nicolas Sarkozy doit aussi dire publiquement s’il se désolidarise de Pascal Sevran, qui compte parmi ses soutiens les plus actifs.
Communiqué de Faouzi Lamdaoui,
Secrétaire national adjoint à l’Egalité et au Partenariat équitableThis is a loose translation of the above quote, with my own comments interspersed. Pascal Sevran is a French TV host. In his latest book, "Le Privilège des Jonquilles," he says, "The black man's dick is responsible for hunger in Africa."
When you hear that for the first time you go... what?, and you try for a second reading. When asked to clarify such an outrageous statement, he said, "So what? It's the truth! Africa is dying due to all these children being born to parents who have no means of feeding them. I'm not alone to say so. We're gonna have to castrate half the planet!"
The above quote is from the website of the French Socialist party. The rest of the article just condemns Mr. Sevran and asks him to come out and apologise, as well as Mr. Sarkozy, a presidential hopeful backed by Mr. Sevran.
It took me a while to decide to blog this, and now that I've decided to go ahead, I find I have no steam to go full force against Pascal for what he said. My original reluctance of definitely-not-worth-it has come flooding back; and so I'll leave it at this. The one thought that does keep bugging me, coming back, this little whispering voice in my head, is, "Wow... now they want to slice our dicks off." Niger has done better than me, Niger has hauled Pascal's ass to court. His employer has also asked him to apologise or quit.
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And you’re listening to him? It’s obvious he’s nuts…
Rethabile, you might find this link interesting/amusing/disturbing, depending on how you feel about good ‘ol Sarko.
http://www.zedess.com/Sarkozy_Clip/Un_Hongrois_chez_les_Gaulois.html
It’s a song called “Un hongrois chez les gaulois” by Zedess, a Burkinabe artist The chorus is rather catchy and I’ve been singing it in my head all day: “Nicolas Sarkozy pourquoi ton pere a fui la hongrie?”
What I find interesting about this is that it is part of a continuing trend by the European left who now feel it is quite acceptable to make these kind of racist statements. It reminds me of UK’s Jack Straw statement on the wearing of the Niqab calling it a “visable statement of difference” as if he himself is not a visible statement of difference!
The young French seem to be great at coming up with these political songs – again reminds me of the one around Zizou and his head butt – cant remember the title now but at the time i was humming it for days.
How do you apologize to an entire nation? To an entire part of the human race whose existence practically spans half the world, numerically, and has had a huge impact several nations of the west historically (though not willingly)?
It’s disgusting for me to admit, but Sevran is right when he says that he’s “not the only one who thinks like that.” He’s an idiot and I’d like to see France Television fire him, in the worst way. An apology is not enough.
Sorry i got the wrong end of the stick here – but it still a case of people feeling it is now acceptable to say those things they have always thought but been afraid to speak. Now it is all coming out like worms on a wet day!
Hm, the first sentence of my above comment should have been “How do you apologize to an entire continent?”
My mistake :/
I took “nation” to poetically mean the black nation, not like when “W” uses it. Something needs to be done to him, that’s for sure.
I still think everyone’s entitled to their opinion and he shouldn’t be made to apologize, after all, those are his thoughts.
The TV should make it clear they don’t support his views… and fire him…
It hardly seems fair to accuse a continent with one of the lowest average population densities of growing uncontrollably and irresponsiably. It couldn’t be and underdeveloped agricultural sector, or seasonal draught, or inefficient distribution, or anything like that.
Oh no, the problem is clearly that there are too many people.
How can politicians, serious politcians, make such ignorant statement?