Many people have described Sarkozy as a hyper-active (think of his near-attack on paparazzi in the USA last week) and power drunk politician, but not many have described him as racist. Well, we now add that to many of the adjectives that describe him. On July 26, 2007, on a university campus in Dakar, President Nicolas Sarkozy, as part of his speech said, ‘The African peasant only knows the eternal renewal of time, rhythmed by the endless repetition of the same gestures and the same words.”In this imaginary world where everything starts over and over again, there is no place for human adventure or for the idea of progress.’
Is he simply stupid? I think that whatever abuse one chooses to rain on him one should be seriously worried that the leader of a former colonial power in African would think like that. Achille Mbembe has quickly written a rejoinder.
Sarkozy’s article is here, the French version of Achille Mbembe’s reply is here, and the English version of the reply is here.
Discours raciste de sarko à dakar – 26 juillet 2007
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I used to think Sarkozy was an Israeli assault rifle, until I discovered he was Bulgarian!
I used to think Sarkozy was an Israeli assault rifle, until I discovered he was Bulgarian!