26 February 2010

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Sounds like good ol' France could use some...
The French media, at least on the center and the left, picked up the Soumaré case after blogs and Facebook pages lit up with chatter about the case this week.

Despite a secular and egalitarian tradition in France, only seven of some 860 members of the French and Assembly come from non-white backgrounds.
Suddenly Canada doesn't look like such a terrible place after all.