Paris Attacks – I am African First

We all know the terrorist attacks in Paris are devastating and shocking and no country should be threatened. Innocent people were killed, families are mourning their loss, the government is dealing with a critical emergency and world leaders have united behind France. It is remarkable that so many people are pouring out their condolences and well wishes to a country in shock. Unity and unanimous support in a time when the world realizes that terrorists are the real enemy and all have a common goal to defeat this monster.

I am actually shocked at what black South Africans and probably other Africans are saying about the Paris calamity. I could not believe people are so heartless and selfish. When my eyes glanced over a comment on social media “I am African – F+*@k France,” I was stunned. I read the posts and decided to share what some ARE SAYING.

• When you pray for France, do not forget to pray for that South African lady Sarah Baartman whose body was in French zoos being used as an exhibition. During her living days, she was sexually abused and would be forced to walk naked in the streets of Paris and every white mafia would just touch her Body or have sex with her. She would be used in lectures as an exhibition of how the Body of a Black lady looks like and even today the French people believe the clitoris of a Black women has demons.
• Some psychological thoughts believe that was the beginning of the lack of confidence by most Black women.

Sarah Baartman – here is an extract from  Wikipedia

Baartman was sold to a Frenchman, who took her to his country.^[22] She was in France from around September 1814.^[23] An animal trainer, S. Réaux, exhibited her under more pressured conditions for fifteen months. French naturalists, among them Georges Cuvier, head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, visited her. She was the subject of several scientific paintings at the Jardin du Roi, where she was examined in March 1815: as Saint-Hilaire^[24] and Frédéric Cuvier, a younger brother of Georges, reported, "she was obliging enough to undress and to allow herself to be painted in the nude." This was not literally true: although by his standards she appeared to be naked, in accordance with her own cultural norms of modesty^[25] throughout these sessions she wore a small apron-like garment which concealed her genitalia. She steadfastly refused to remove this even when offered money by one of the attending scientists.^[4] It has been alleged that once her novelty had worn thin with Parisians, she began to drink heavily and support herself with prostitution.^[3] Baartman however had refused payment to allow scientists to observe her genitals in spring 1815, suggesting she both retained her Khoi standards of modesty and was not destitute at that time: and as a French paper^[26] carried the usual advertisements for her show only a week prior to her death, she may always have been able to support herself without recourse to prostitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman

• Do not also forget to pray for the 18000 chopped heads of Africans who were beheaded during French colonization of the Francophone countries. As am writing here, these thousands of African bodies are hanged in French Mes.
• When you are mentally colonized, the 147 Kenyan students presented No value to you, but you are quick to put up the French flag for the bombings in Paris. Bloody Hypocrites!
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• To all Fighters around the world do not involve yourself with France -
  Let us embrace our own 
• Let's stop with the selective outrage, please. 
• Before you pray for Paris, pray for the African child. 
• My heart is with the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been torn apart for decades by a silent France, it's with the children of Central African Republic w...

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I sort of agree with the sentiment of the following comment:
Not so long ago Zuma was telling Western Europe that it was responsible for the creation of the movement of refugees into Europe and must learn to live with the consequences thereof. Now that the same refugees are beginning to bomb themselves among Europeans, killing scores of them in the process, Zuma is sending condolences.
If I were France's Francois Hollande, I would tell Zuma to go stuff his condolences up Vladimir Putin's arse.

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 I believe that terrorism is wrong and I send my condolences to all the people who have lost loved ones. I will certainly keep praying for peace.