On Tuesday the 12th of January 2010, the Socialist party whose head is Martine Aubry submitted a bill to the National Assembly to enable immigrants to vote during the next local elections.

The earthquake’s destruction has been aggravated not by a pact with the Devil, but by the crippling legacy of imperialism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article6995750.ece

In 2010, several debates and meetings will be held to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of decolonization. Politicians as well as college students will discuss on the issue of colonization that was part and is still part of political and social debates.

As everyone in Paris is getting ready for the event; make ups and best suits on, I am sitting up in front my laptop and meditate on the past decade.

Sometimes I wish I were American; not for the American dream but because of people like this big boy. Listen to what a big boy has to tell his big boss: Lovely!
… Really wish we had the same big boy in the Hexagon.

It seemed to me that all the thoughts and opinions that had once been denied any space of expression had now found an outlet in this very colloquium.

In March 2010; a demonstration day is planned in order to support immigrants- the idea of an economic boycott has already gathered many supporters on the internet.

Were the left-wing’s social messages and lack of sincere measures to remedy social injustices always all planned so that we the deprived and segregated against, in an unachievable dream, keep on being fooled and vote for them?

I met some of those who liked it and left it… I met them in the UK …
What a strange feeling to be asked about the French culture, the French habits, to be teased about your French accent or simply to be called a Frenchie …
“I will support France, I really will, the day it supports me”.

Exposure of one’s difference in front of the feeling of exclusion and despise for such differences, here is how many individual identities were often built and constructed among the youngsters of immigrant descents in France.