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Originally Posted by Johnj

So I guess they're not race riots because they are happening in France? People of color were invited to come to France and promised a better life. The French didn't provide the better life to the hoards that answered the call. I still say unchecked immigration is a bad idea.

I don't get what you guys are making a controversy out of this. It's hardly about race at all. Why would you call it something its not?

North Africans are of multiple races anyway, Arab and African. The thing is there are white kids involved too. The thing they all have in common is there socio-economic status.

It seems to be Americans that are pushing the idea that it's a race riot....Which is amusing to me. You just want the French to be as racist as your country historically is. While there is alot of racial tension I just don't think its as prominent as it is in the U.S, and from what I've read and heard I wouldn't say it is the main reason for the rioting at all.

I was watching a few interviews on tv with some of the kids that were involved in the earlier rioting and they claimed that their anger was at the fact that they couldn't get employed - They went on to say that the prejudice generally came after they told them where they lived. That doesn't sound like a race issue to me.