There apparently is no backing down for the “politically correct” left.
Trevor Noah of the Daily Show was hit with a wave of outrage after his comment, “Africa won the World Cup,” was construed as racist by the French. The comedian finally addressed the issue on his Youtube series, “Between the Scenes.”
Reading a letter from the French ambassador, Gerard Araud, Noah refused to offer an apology to the French, but instead tried to dig himself further into a hole by saying, “When I say they're African, I’m not saying it as a way to exclude them from their Frenchness. I’m saying it to include them in my Africanness.”
In the letter to Noah, Araud explained, “By calling them an African team, it seems you are denying their Frenchness. This, even in jest, legitimizes the ideology which claims whiteness as the only definition of being French.”
He went on to reiterate the statements put out by the French soccer team: that the players were in fact “proud of their country.” In a tweet, Manchester defender Benjamin Mendy posted the names of the team members with the French flag by each of their names.
Noah argued that the French were saying that “in order to be French, you have to erase everything that is African? Because what do they mean when they say that -- our culture, our this, our this. So you cannot be French and African at the same time, which I vehemently disagree with.”
