Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Paris
A new report has shed light on what appears to be the most discriminated group in France: young, Black males.While the nation’s relatively few Roma occupy the bottom of France’s social pyramid, males under the age of 25 with parents from sub-Saharan Africa suffer from discrimination in a host of vital areas. Their unemployment rate is 42%, compared to 22% for descendants of white Europeans; their median household income is a whopping 34% under the national average; and they are 3.5 times more likely to live in poor neighborhoods.
The French state claims to be completely neutral, and thus bars any discussion of race, religion or ethnicity, in a decision which clearly favors the establishment. It’s a policy appears wilfully deluded to the many victims of discrimination.
The report underlined just how difficult it was for France’s young Blacks to get jobs, despite having been raised and educated in France along with their white peers.
The report comes in advance of a cabinet meeting this week on tackling inequality. France’s Prime Minister recently said that an “apartheid has imposed itself on our country”, a mild admission of guilt which still drew plenty of criticism.
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