http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20051115-123453-1774r.htm
[Chirac continues to respond to this as a American University President would- the stench of weakness - I predict- will only serve to continue the riots. He honestly believes that it will win him any respect. I was wrong to laugh at all the French jokes over the years, they ACTUALLY ARE like that.]
Chirac cites 'malaise' in riot outbreak
[Where have I heard that word- "malaise" before?....hmmmm….Churchill?........Reagan?........Kennedy?.....I am sure it come to me]
PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac said yesterday that more than two weeks of violence in the poor suburbs of France is the sign of a "profound malaise" and ordered measures to reach out to the angry rioters.
Mr. Chirac, speaking with French and European Union flags behind him, said discrimination should be eliminated.
[eliminate discrimination? Is he bucking for an Ivy League post?]
But he appeared to rule out U.S.-style affirmative-action programs amid a debate over whether France's strict adherence to the principle of equality has caused it to fail in acknowledging and addressing racial tensions. "There is no question of entering into the logic of quotas," the French leader said.
He said he has decided to set up a corps of volunteers to offer training for 50,000 young persons by 2007. He said the French press, which is nearly all white and of European extraction, must "better reflect the reality of France today."
He told companies and unions that they must encourage diversity and support employment for the young from tough neighborhoods, saying it was important to fight "this poison for society which is discrimination."