Since I do not have much to blog right now, then a small
chronic Fouad Laroui needed.
prohibited to dogs and Blondes
Still, we saw a pretty crazy time. There was a time - say, the fall of Constantinople until Sunday - when things were simple: be white, it was good, being black, less well, and being Arab, was the abomination of desolation. It was all a bit unfair, of course, but as it was the strongest types who claimed he had to believe them. There are half a millennium, these beefy had crossbows, and now they line up ten thousand nuclear warheads, but as, technically, they have a head start on us poor non-Whites, and we quia reduced.
Forgive me this preamble philosophical after which we will, strangely, talking about football. Yesterday I sat in the stands of a stadium open to the winds to see the beat Sparta Rotterdam the arrogant Ajax Amsterdam 3-0. Intense jubilation, of course, but we are not here to talk about this. We're here to talk about an incident that stunned me. At some point, exactly in the 17th minute of the game, the playmaker of Ajax, the International Wesley Snijder, angered by a tackle too support a Sparta player, turns and yells
- White Sale!
Let's be clear: Snijder is as white and blond as, say, Le Pen, and the other player as white and blond as, say, Hermann Goering. You see Le Pen Goering deal of dirty white? Imagine my dismay.
Where is the world, eh? It just got lost. Frankly, there is something to show them to the Nuremberg Tribunal, the rope around his neck, and let the judges sort out the matter.
In truth, the pale Snijder used a more complicated expression (Vuile witte tyfushond ") can be translated as" Dirty White dogs suffering from typhus, "but not to frighten the little ones, we will stick to "dirty white". It seems that the astonishing insult was invented in the heat of the action by the imaginative center forward which we can predict a future poet after his football career has ended.
In any case, the referee did not hesitate to show the red card and sent the poet to his studies Chromatology. Or - the plot thickens - Snijder said refused to leave the ground that "Dirty White" was not a racist insult. Dirty Black / Jew / Arab / Chechen, OK, it's all racism, but white? Lawyers, your Dalloz! This is a case that Mr. Vergès himself did not foresee. Anyway, since yesterday, the debate rages in the land of Rembrandt - the master of chiaroscuro. Is it wrong to treat each other whites? And, as we There is, of Roses? Everyone knows that whites indeed - I count among my best friends - are actually pink.
I think we are witnessing the end of an era. The intrusion of footballer Snijder in our consciousness may mean the end of racism as we know since the Crusades. Now we all somewhere, a potential victim. Go then, eh, dirty blonde with blue eyes ... The End of History, Fukuyama announced. The end of the color, answered Snijder. Maddening!
Fouad Laroui
Source: Jeune Afrique
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