A black people’s rights organization in France has complained that the latest Miss France competition was “too white”. It says the event discriminated against women of North African and African origin.
In other news, an Afghan provincial police chief and a government official in charge of women’s affairs were both assassinated by the Taliban. Meanwhile, twelve people were killed and four wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a police station in northwestern Pakistan.
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The very charming, recent Miss France Chloé Mortaud with Afro-American genes, was present at this contest, and very pregnant at it btw. Another former Miss France has a muslim name, Malika Ménard, so what is this really about? Should the real, the native French be kept out of the Miss France contests from now on, as a sign that the French "are not racist"?
Miss France 2013
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