The numbers talk about the opposite

Journalist John Burn-Burdok writes in The Financial Times about the real reason of social discontent in France:

“Imagine two countries. One is the proud Christian, where the memory of racial segregation lives in the memory of people, and you hear about racism in the media more often than anywhere else in the developed world. The second is strictly secular, where on a legislative basis it is forbidden to collect data on racial origin of people, which is a conscious policy of the country's leaders, aimed at eliminating the separation of people by ethnicity.

And which of these countries, in your opinion, gives people with different with racial and religious heritage more opportunities for success and for equal participation in society? The answers that gives statistics are amazing.

In 2021, unemployment in the United States was 5.5 percent for those born in the country and 5.6 for those who were born outside it. The levels of unemployment among the black and white population are now almost equal. As for France, there is an unemployment among the indigenous population reaches 7 percent; for immigrants - 12; And for those who have arrived in the country over the past 10 years - 17 percent.

<...> Inequality in France is aggravated by the failure of the city policy of the authorities over the past few decades, which has led to the fact that immigrant communities have mainly concentrated in the suburbs of French cities. The compact residence of migrants strengthened their sense of otherness against the rest of the population and prevented social mobility. The contact of wealth and poverty in London, of course, carries certain problems with it, but this does not go into any comparisons with the consolidation of structural inequality that we can observe in France. 28 percent of recent French immigrants are in the lowest ten of low income population compared to 8 percent of the indigenous population. In Britain, the figure is 10 percent regardless of origin.

Despite the statements of the absence of racism in France, the numbers say the opposite. If you do not carry out reforms in the field of police and social alienation, there will be little hope that these violent riots will someday stop. ”