The Boston Globe reports on the French town of Clichy-sous-Bois:
There is 24 percent unemployment in Clichy-sous-Bois, according to the mayor, against a national average of 10 percent. ''Some of the kids have good diplomas," Dilain said. It was not just a matter of not having a good education, but a problem of ''having not such a good color of the skin or a good address."
This is not the way it is supposed to be in France. The ideals of the French Revolution, ''liberte, egalite, fraternite," still rule public policy. Everyone is supposed to be absolutely equal in France. It is not supposed to matter what color or religion you are. Everyone who is a French citizen is automatically equal under French tradition and law.
I guess France's socialism is one with institutional racism.Quite different than the what tenured American professors say about France.
The Brussels Journal reports something similar:
There’s just no damn jobs. White college grads can’t get jobs, what hope do immigrants from regions with bad schools have? […] They can’t change schools to get a better education because the government says you have to go to the school where you live, and they live where they do because of the zoning laws... which I’m no expert about, but I do know that the government owns 30 percent of all housing in France, and poor immigrants basically live where they’re told. The government tries to give them everything and does it extremely badly, there’s no upward mobility, and it doesn’t breed a happy community.
During these trying times it's good to know that
France's lawmakers are concerned about the Ipod's market share. What about the public education monopoly over there? Any concern?
