Trevor Noah defends "Africa won the World Cup"

South African comedian Trevor Noah defended himself after being criticized by a French diplomat for stating that "Africa had won the World Cup".

The Daily Show host commented on his satirical show a day after France beat Croatia to win Sunday's most coveted award.

More than half of the French team can trace its legacy in Africa. The ambbadador of France to the United States said that the comedian denied their "Frenchness" by calling them Africans

"That, even jokingly, legitimizes the ideology that claims whiteness as the only definition of French, "said Gérard Araud.

"They were educated in France, they learned to play football in France, they are French citizens and they are proud of their country, France."

The Daily Show posted a video of The South African Cartoon Reading Letter on Wednesday ( later tweeted by the French Embbady in the United States ) – and continuing to argue that the African identity of the players should be celebrated.

Noah said that he understood where the ambbadador was coming from and how his comment could be perceived as "joining the attack" with the far right of France.

But he said his statement should be put in context: "When I say," They are Africans, "I'm not saying that it's a way to exclude them from their Frenchness, but to say To use them as a means of including them in my Africanity. "

To deny that duality was something with which he was" vehemently "in disagreement.

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The feud comes after Khaled Beydoun, an American writer on the subject, said: Islamophobia, called in a Twitter post for "justice" Africans and Muslims in France because they "delivered you a second World Cup."

The tweet was widely shared and has sparked criticism and some praise, and some feared that this would hamper race relations in a country that had seen its political rhetoric escalate as a result of a migration crisis and a number of terrorist attacks.

Earlier in the week, Noah also posted on his Instagram account a cartoon of Mr. Rifai showing a boat filled with migrants handing the World Cup trophy to France.

In his letter, M Araud pointed out that the players and div horizons is a reflection of the diversity of France ", to which Mr. Noah replied:" Now, I'm not trying to be an badhole but I think it's more a reflection of the colonialism of the La France. "

The founding principles of France and its universal values ​​mean that it does not collect data or statistics on its racial, ethnic or religious origins.

The ambbadador stressed this:" Unlike the United States of America, France does not refer to its citizens based on their race, religion or origin. "

Mr. Noah stated that the color blind approach did not occur. did not stop discrimination against African migrants.

"When they are unemployed, when they can commit a crime or when they are considered dubious, it is African immigrants," Noah said.

" When their children will offer a World Cup win to France, we should only designate them as French. "

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