Visibility and politics in France

France is weird. France is a really bizarre country when it is about her continuously called « French originaly from… » citizens.
Actually, the today politically correct wording is “visible minority”, but anyway, it is about same people; those who are not white, not catholic – even so being non-catholic is more and more the right fashion tendency – and are part of the establishment.
So, why the word "weird" ? Why France would be hugely different from USA or UK for instance when dealing with her “visible minority”? Ok, let’s take one example from French political daily news.

In politics we all know that one of the main rules, one of the basics is to have an ideology, a political, even philosophical way of thinking the “city management” as said by the Greeks. Not being naïve, we all know also that philosophical views don’t worth a penny when confronting the political realities for every politician. But usually, when voting period arrive, each camp would try to take advantage of the slightest change in the opinion, the tiniest inflection in their rival tone, as the more dreadful proof that these untruthful opponents don’t deserve our trust.
Without denying that people can change; even politicians; without neglecting all the political tricks used to discredit the rival by pointing out a so called “lack of reliability in political views”; we have to admit that showing on too munch inconstant ideology may lead to a dead end career in politic. Should lead to a dead-end.

But we have to admit that when it is about the visible-minority-coming-from politicians, France seems to have different rules. As example let’s talk about two people in particular; Ms Rachida Dati and Ms Rama Yade.

Ms Dati is the French ministry of justice also called “garde des sceaux” and when people read things about her, about the way she took for getting in politics it is obvious that she is a real shark who tried to dig her hole within every parties from left to right without any consistency in her ideology, without the slightest philosophical or morale opinion.
It’s seems like her only criteria was “in which part of the political chessboard I can put myself under the sunlight”.

Ms Yade has had almost the same path to get on track on politic in France. She tried badly to the left side with her husband and jumped without any scrupules on the proposal made by an intelligent right-side French politician who was seeking for the new icon of French openness. He found a young, quite good looking wife and the cherry on the cake, a black person.

But the questions are, what about finance? Is she for capitalism or liberalism? What about her opinion on family health-care policy, on FED responsibility on the ongoing credit crunch; what is her opinion on child adoption by gay parents? …
Maybe some people know her answers, but I bet that they are very few.

Actually French politicians, French journalists, French people generally never bother to ask those two ladies all the basic questions that any politician is expecting to face to. France doesn’t bother to know from what side of the political game those two ladies are really close to, and whether they are taking a fool of us by working with everybody as soon as they reach their personal goals.
They are from “visible minority” and they are the only one visible, so it’s enough. As soon as they look brilliant on TV screen or on magazine pictures, as soon as they repeat blindly what Nicolas their boss tell them to say; France won’t bother to be too demanding with them.
It’s the French version of affirmative action.