You are right about many things but it's a shame you keep missing the point and prefer to call French people hypocrites instead of actually trying to understand why you got such unanimous backlash here, from people of all origins and political opinions.
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You mentioned that in just 5 seconds but context does matter and it's the key here: "Africa has won the world cup" is literally what has been said over and over again by far-right people in France and Europe to delegitimize those guys.
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Ultimately you should listen to what these players have said before you speak for them and they've kept repeating they were French and feeling 100% French to counter those who questioned their Frenchness because of the color of their skin.pic.twitter.com/SOfWOS2fkU
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It's not about denying them the right to feel French and be proud of their origins at the same time, that's a totally different question and it's not what THEY have stood for here because that's not what this controversy was about
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So maybe you'd better make the effort to understand and then explain to your audience the differences in context and acknowledge that it was a mistake to say that the way you said it when the players themselves constantly have to fight against the exact same words
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Black twitters reaction to Trevor’s response (Song credit: “Supervision” by iamEROC....Here’s the Apple Music link to the full song https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supervision/1342286693?i=1342286845 …pic.twitter.com/LIPt2FcJPV
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Well... well.... well... Here is another pic of the team with another message.pic.twitter.com/xSwXQ9wPVt
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1/Black Frenchman here offering some much needed perspective. I totally get everyone sharing the same roots as our players feeling proud for our victory, it's a kind thought. But saying that Africa won is not only terribly reductive for the continent and its various cultures...
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2/ It also implies that our victory is undeserved and that our players are not legitimely french. You're thus echoing all the ideas of the racists and extremists who constantly try to undermine their place in french society
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3/ Put yourself in our players shoes, rejoice for their victory but please stop facilitating the right-wing's ideas, we already have enough shit on our plate.
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Banter folks, this wasn’t a French politician saying this. He’s a comedian. Context folks, context. I wonder why French citizens are so sensitive on the subject?

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Because what he said mirror exactly what some of our politicians in the far right-wing have said. It's incredibly annoying coming from someone intelligent like
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I just don't understand the need for bringing up ethnicity/religion at all. Sports are meant to be INTER-NATIONAL, not INTER-RACIAL.
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I'm from ZA and pretty much everyone here said the same thing. It's was mostly to have a team to back and the pride of seeing black players contribute to winning. Our team here sucks, it didn't even qualify so we choose teams we can most relate to.
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Don't worry, I completely understand! Thansk for rooting for us :)
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nah man doesn’t work like that. They’re French, proud ones, born and raised there, and who had to prove to the rest of France that they are indeed French. I’m sure they are proud of their roots but saying Africa won the World Cup is insulting
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both for France who did an excellent job and for all the African teams that played. The day an African team will win the World Cup we will truly enjoy it. The French team find its roots in every place of the globe and that’s why it’s beautiful to see them win as a unit
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Still African. They speak French

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This dude said "They're French" and "they had to prove to the rest of France that they are indeed French". So which is it? Black immigrants are put in that nasty post-colonial trap and this whole debate is funny as hell because it perfectly exposes the hypocrisy behind it.
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Well Trevor actually pointed it out by saying when these kids do something bad, the French blame their roots but when they get the World Cup they are suddenly French. France has an enormous identity problem
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He's correct, most post-colonial countries do. And knowing that should help you examine the paradox in your own statements. The wrong assumption is that African heritage is intrinsically "bad". Most of us just don't see it that way, and if others do, to hell with them.
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And I don’t see it that way. And I’m sure most of the French citizen do not see it that way. Fact is this team is French one, and the FIFA allows the player to choose between two national teams if they had different nationality. Some of them are from Algeria other from Guinea
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But they chose to play for France, and when they won they got back to France and raised the French flag. Nobody is denying their roots and nobody’s excluding the pride of a lot of African. I’m Tunisian, I felt proud for them
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