Trevor Noah explains after his sketch on the African origins of the players of the France team

Trevor Noah explains his skit on the African origins of the French team
        
      

    
    
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After the victory of the Blues at the World Cup on Sunday, the South African presenter of Daily Show Trevor Noah was delighted, stating in a skit that "Africa won the World Cup. world ". A joke that was controversial on social networks, many denouncing the racist scope of this excerpt indicating that Noah took the speeches of the French far right.

The comedian explained this Wednesday in a YouTube video after receiving a letter from the French ambbadador in the United States criticizing his skit that "legitimize the ideology that says whiteness is the the only definition of French identity ". "In my opinion, all Blacks around the world have celebrated the Africanity of French players, justified Noah. The facilitator added finding "bizarre" that some suggest that individuals can not be Africans and French, and that, to be French, immigrants and children of immigrants should erase all the culture that preceded .

After taking Mamoudou Gbadama as an example to support his thesis by the absurd – "If he had dropped the baby, he would have remained African?" – Noah said: " I do not say "Africans" to exclude them from their French nationality, I say it to include them in my African identity. I recognize them as a French brother of African descent. " Before concluding that he "would continue to celebrate them as Africans because I believe they are from Africa, that their parents are from Africa and that they can also be French at the same time. And if the French say they can not, I think they are the ones who have a problem and not me ".

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