I am Black and I completely agree with you. It is amazing how sometimes we just not give respect when respect is due, instead of saying ohh they are black and they are big and they are fast, because of their race.

Why dont we say, wow, that man has trained so well, and his physical appearance is good, he is a skilled player and has great strength because he worked at it and built himself to that level. why dont we acknowledge that it is our work ethic that has given us this stature and not our race.

It amazes me how people would look at a black person and assume that all his gifts and talents came because it is in his blood, no it aint because of that. It is because he worked at it and he became great.

I know we have our differences on who I think is better between argentina and france, but in regards to race. I am with you guys. Mainly Theiry. you said it well, my friend.

IN ALL THE WESTERN EUROPEANS COUNTRIES, IN CANADA TWO(may be more in Canada) there is about the same ratio of african immigrants. THE big difference is(and the big tabbo too) do you think these countries are able to accept so easily black peoples in there teams the racism of the italian fans or spanish ones is not totally a legend. There are always m*nkeys cries in these country. The presence of Odonkor in Germany broke a taboo, with difficulty, and one of the reason of the boycott of Davids and Seedorf was the difficulty behind withe and black in Holland team.

“Blood” is nothing. You can’t define if a human is black or white seeing his blood analisys. RACES DO NOT EXIST IN HUMANITY, WE SHOULD SAY ETHNIC GROUPS WHICH REFFER TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND NOT BLOOD ONES. The runner with the most big stamina of this team is white and is called Sagnol. Zidane is white. Yes sorry for you but arabic persons are white. If blood would be so important as you said we would see systematically dynasties of sportmen of scientists, of genius. in fact, it is extremely rare.

What is extremely common on the other hand is the recurrence of racist bullsh*ts. We can easily made an history of racist “ideas” and arguments. I presume if i argue you that Black german players are less physical amazing than white ones you will argue the “superiority of the german blood” exactly like Adolf and his fans.

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We have a long lull between now and the Argentina game on Feb. 7. I’m going to address the immigration/colonization/black-blanc-beur issue in a post soon. I hope you’ll stop back by and participate in the discussion!

I think they have to, they’ll fail miserably without them.

“They also have strong players who are not immigrants or of African descent”

Yeah, Maybe two.

“I think other teams are going to have to look beyond skin color and adopt France’s “black, blanc, beur” (black, white, arab) attitude or be left behind.”

Do you honestly think these “other teams” are concerned about skin colour. I’m sure any team would kill for some of the African talent that France possess but there’s one problem they all live in France. I guess it pays to colonize.

Making a blanket statement that “African players are stronger and faster than everyone else and they have greater endurance” is an oversimplified stereotype. But I will agree that France currently has some very strong players of African descent. They also have strong players who are not immigrants or of African descent.

I think other teams are going to have to look beyond skin color and adopt France’s “black, blanc, beur” (black, white, arab) attitude or be left behind.