{"id":525,"date":"2019-12-20T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking-the-silence.online\/index.php\/2019\/12\/20\/macron-finally-breaks-the-taboo-around-french-colonial-past\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T06:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:25:05","slug":"macron-finally-breaks-the-taboo-around-french-colonial-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amaliafoka.com\/breaking-the-silence\/index.php\/2019\/12\/20\/macron-finally-breaks-the-taboo-around-french-colonial-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron finally breaks the taboo around French colonial past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>He had the <strong>courage<\/strong>, at a <strong>time<\/strong> when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Algeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Algeria<\/a> is changing and opening up, to tackle a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap square\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">At\u00a0<\/span>a <strong>time<\/strong> when <strong>everyone<\/strong> is demanding <strong>greater transparency<\/strong>, it is astonishing to note that all <strong>memory<\/strong> <strong>work<\/strong> comes up against the <strong>same pitfalls<\/strong>, again and again, and that <strong>people<\/strong> continue to prefer <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> to <strong>serious exploration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Born long after the <strong>end<\/strong> of the <strong>war<\/strong>, the French Head of State has no <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">taboos<\/span><\/strong> when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Algeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Algeria<\/a> and does not submit to any <strong>doctrine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The very <strong>same communiqu\u00e9<\/strong> also indicates that \u00bbboth <strong>presidents<\/strong> agreed to keep in <strong>touch<\/strong> to follow up on the political initiatives resulting from the Major National Dialogue,\u00ab without ever mentioning the issue of political prisoners or negotiations with secessionists, two <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> subjects for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameroon<\/a>\u2019s <strong>government<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>PARIS &#8211; French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to be caught off guard on Monday by a proposal by a <strong>government<\/strong> spokeswoman, one of the most prominent black <strong>people<\/strong> in French politics, to lift a decades-old <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> against collecting statistics by race. \u00bb<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/amaliafoka.com\/breaking-the-silence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/macron-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\">\n<p>However, despite the EU reaffirming the \u00abunequivocal support for the European perspective of the Western Balkans\u00bb, the words \u00ab<strong>enlargement<\/strong>\u00bb or \u00abintegration\u00bb were nowhere to be seen, which triggered a debate over whether \u00ab<strong>enlargement<\/strong>\u00bb had become <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, and \u00abEuropean perspective\u00bb a vague and empty formula. \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n<p><span class=\"highlight\" style=\"background-color: #666666; color: #ffffff;\">The text of this article was generated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/amaliafoka.com\/breaking-the-silence\/index.php\/about\/\">Breaking The Silence<\/a> system that collected <strong>5<\/strong> news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subjects related to Emmanuel Macron<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had the courage, at a time when Algeria is changing and opening up, to tackle a taboo. 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