Negritude meets Migritude

From scholar-activist, Judith Ezekiel:

This month, French Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, who helped fan the flames police brutality and anti-immigrant violence in the recent uprisings in France by calling rioters "rabble who should be washed away with pressure cleaners", was supposed to visit the French isle of Martinique. Honorary mayor and literary figure Aime Cesaire refused to meet with him. The poet and founding figure of Negritude cited his opposition to the Feb 2005 law that says schools must teach the positive role of French colonialism. Various groups announced that they would protest Sarkozy's visit... and he cancelled his visit! People of color and antiracists in France broke out the champagne.