Congratulations to Chloe Mortaud, (African-American mother and White French father), Miss France for 2009.

Black is the new sexy and the new “power tie” in 2009.

“Black is back, all in we’re gonna win, check it out. Yeah yo c’mon…here we go again.”

- Public Enemy, Bring the Noise

Story HERE

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The new Miss France, born to an African-American mother and white French father, said Sunday she wants to advertise her country’s diversity on the world stage.

Chloe Mortaud is not the first nonwhite winner of the beauty pageant, but she is joining a growing chorus of French public figures breaking traditions by speaking openly about race.

she told The Associated Press the day after being crowned. “I want to go to people and explain to them that fear of the other is unfounded,”"I want to incarnate … today’s French diversity” at international beauty pageants.

France has championed a colorblind standard that sees all citizens as just French, regardless of ethnic origins – an ideal meant to make everyone feel equal. But it has failed to snuff out racism, particularly against immigrants from former French colonies in Africa. Discrimination in part fed riots in 2005 by largely minority youth in French housing projects.

Days after Barack Obama’s election last month, leading French figures published a manifesto urging affirmative action-like policies to expand opportunities for millions of blacks, Arabs and other minorities. First lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy said she hoped the “Obama effect” would reshape France’s political and social elite.

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I hope you just understood the magnitude of what you just read. The election of Obama is already reshaping the world…

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