Paris Mayor Condemns Black Feminist Festival Which Bans White People

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Sunday condemned a vivid example of reverse racism, when she called for a black feminist festival in the French capital to be banned, saying it was "prohibited to white people." The first edition of the Nyansapo Festival, due to run from July 28 to 30 at a cultural center in Paris, bills itself as "an event rooted in blackfeminism, activism, and on (a) European scale."

According to AFP, four-fifths of the festival area will be set aside as a "non-mixed" space "for black women," according to its website in French. Another space will be a "non-mixed" area "for black people" regardless of gender, while a final space would be "open to all" although as the French media explains, the English version of the site does uses the word "reserved" instead of "non-mixed."

The announcement prompted an angry response from Hidalgo, a socialist, who said on Twitter that she "firmly condemned" the organisation "of this event, "prohibited to white people"."

"I am asking for this festival to be banned," Hidalgo said, adding she also reserved the right "to prosecute the organisers for discrimination."

She wasn"t the only one: French antiracist and antisemitism organisations strongly condemned the festival. SOS Racisme described the event as "a mistake, even an abomination, because it wallows in ethnic separation, whereas anti-racism is a movement which seeks to go beyond race." LICRA, the International League against Racism and Antisemitism, said "Rosa Parks would be turning in her grave," a reference to the American civil rights icon.

Attention to the festival was first brought up by Wallerand de Saint-Just, the regional head of Marine Le Pen"s National Front party, who challenged Hidalgo on Friday to explain how the city was putting on an event "promoting a concept that is blatantly racist and anti-republican."

As for the response by the organizers of the clearly racist event, it was just as one would expect: instead of taking responsibility they blamed "fake news" and the "far right":

The cultural centre La Generale, where the event was to be hosted, and the collective Mwasi, which organised the event, said Sunday they were the "target of a disinformation campaign and of "fake news" orchestrated by the foulest far right."

"We are saddened to see certain antiracist associations letting themselves be manipulated like this," according to a statement posted on the Generale website.

Because when all else fails, and one has no arguments, what does one do? Blame "fake news" and/or the "alt-right", which at least in this case means those who point out the facts.

The Nuansapo is not the first prominent French reverse-racist event: a "decolonisation summer camp" in the northeastern French city of Reims elicited similar outrage last year, as it billed itself as a "training seminar on antiracism" reserved for victims of "institutional racism" or "racialised" minorities -- excluding by default white people.

AFP adds that police prefect Michel Delpuech said in a statement that police had not been advised about the event by Sunday evening. But, Delpuech added, the police "would ensure the rigorous compliance of the laws, values, and principles of the republic".

In a subsequent update reported by Bloomberg, Hidalgo said her "firm" discussion with organizers had yielded a satisfactory clarification: the parts of the festival held on property would be open to everyone and "non-mixed workshops will be held elsewhere, in a strictly private setting." Although even this prompted confusion: MWASI, the Afro-feminist collective sponsoring the three-day event, responded to the mayor"s latest comments by saying it hadn"t changed the festival program "an inch."

Meanwhile, last week several women attempting to stage a "burkini party" were detained in Cannes after a ban against the full-body beachwear favored by some Muslim women was upheld in a fresh decree.

“They Divide Us to Control Us” — Nick Cannon Destroys the Two-Party Paradigm and Govt Control

Emcee, entertainer, rapper, and actor Nick Cannon, was recently interviewed by VLADTV where he discussed several controversial issues, including but not limited to institutional racism, the political establishment, and greed. While you may or may not agree with Cannon’s stance on certain issues, his ability to dissect and transcend the two-party paradigm deserves commendation.

“I don’t have the right to speak on what a woman should do with her body. And I don’t think the government should have the right,” Cannon said after acknowledging his mother once visited an abortion clinic to abort him, before having a change of heart.

“There are certain things that I don’t agree with because of the way that the system is set up,” Cannon said further acknowledging there’s a bigger “systemic” issue at work in the process of ending the life of an unborn child.

Rather than addressing the ethical implications of abortion, Cannon addressed what he referred to as the systemic institutional racism which gave rise to organizations such as the Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger, forced sterilizations, eugenics, classism, injecting black people with diseases such as HIV and Syphilis, were just some of the topics Cannon voiced vehement objections to.

His knowledge of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, demonstrates Cannon’s knowlege and courage to address such controversial issues. Considered a racist by many, Sanger reportedly once wrote, “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities.  The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Sanger was also an advocate for Eugenics, controlling the reproductive systems of all Americans for the purification of the human race. She also advocated for reproduction by permit only, family sizes limited to one child, and forced sterilizations of those with inferior genes.

“Of course the government has done some very helpful and amazing things, but we can’t just praise them for how wonderful they are and then deny all the negative things they’ve done. We have to hold them accountable for everything,” Cannon emphasized.

“It’s the mindset that Black people, lower class people, Latino people are less than all of the elites,” he said adding he, “I have an issue with privatized prisons.” The actor turned activist believes Americans need to combat the mindset which denigrates minorities, imprisons them, surrounds them with liquor stores, offers sub-standard education, and sets them up for failure.

Cannon, who attended the Republican National Convention, said voting for the president was a choice between the “lesser of two evils,” implying he voted for Trump. But the celebrated actor said he actually campaigned for Obama in 2007. “He is the same, solid, upstanding individual,” he said of Obama but stated unequivocally that the office of “The President” is what he called “A Monster.”

Even with Cannon’s involvement in both the Democratic and Republican party campaigns, Cannon revealed that there’s something more sinister at work in the system behind the scenes. “All of that stuff, that’s bells and whistles dog. They set it up to wanna make you think that you are making a choice,” he said, referring to citizens voting for the presidential candidate of their choice. Going further, he shattered the two-party paradigm and stated both parties are corrupt and are only in it for the money and called politics “big business.”

“They divide us, so they can control us.”

When asked if he would ever consider running for public office, specifically the presidency, he emphatically declared, “Hell no!” Instead, Cannon desires to be an effective philanthropist and die a pennyless man, leaving his possessions to care for his immediate family, give to children’s hospitals, and leave a legacy of being a generous person upon his passing.

Thank you, Nick Cannon, for being unafraid of speaking on such controversial issues and thinking outside of the system designed to control.