I don't know what to say.
i can feel sympathy for dying vermin but this doesn't move me
"Diversity" ain't it grand?
"Parents will have to send their kids to school and keep them out of trouble or risk losing welfare benefits."
One giant leap for Frenchkind.
"Still, the revolt awakened a tiny sense of empowerment among France's forgotten citizens. Some are now helping themselves."
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
It's not the French way.
(Some are now helping themselves.
Movie star Jamel Debbouze of "Amelie" and "She Hate Me" fame, clothing designer Mohamed Dia - both sons of immigrants - and rapper Joey Starr teamed up in December to get out the minority vote in next year's presidential and legislative elections.)
This is the version of helping oneself according to the AP: Lobbying the government for help and voting for those who will send in the $!
The projects dotting big city banlieues are still France's fault line, zones of poverty and lawlessness disconnected from mainstream life. The tall towers and long blocks teem with immigrants and children of immigrants.
Sounds like parts of cities in the U.S. where no English is spoken. We have a section of town just like that, you don't go there after dark.
"Things are moving a little bit," he said. Then he corrected himself. "No, let's say things are moving a tiny bit."
What? Is "tiny" the French word for "little?"
Wait until the "yutes" find out that Chrac is sending the welfare money to Gaza instead of the Paris outer ring! No car will be left untorched.
The teeming millions. And they're all on the other team!
The residents are the cause of the squalor. Wherever they move them to will become squalid.