Marine Le Pen Quotes
I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.
Cooper, Anderson. "France's Marine Le Pen." 60 Minutes, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2017.
This is a terrific statement of Americanism at any time, but it is particularly notable in 1888. At that time anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism were both heavy throughout the country. Jim Crowe and racism was rampant, Orientals were heavily discriminated against especially on the West Coast. Irish and Italians were not wanted in most of America except as manual laborers.
After Independence, the original credo of the Indonesian hero and leader was slowly ignored. The Muslim majority established Islam as the dominant religion and began to create laws that discriminated against Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews. The ethnic Chinese had been very successful in business and commerce and soon they were discriminated against and even physically attacked in Pogroms.
The irony of this wonderful statement was that President Trump when he was campaigning gave the most racist and misoginist speeches of any presidential candidate in history. Actually many people who kbnow him well claiomed that he was not personally prejudiced but was just pandering to the racists and sexsits within his political base. His statements were so racist taht the KKK for the first time in history endorsed a prediential candidate. Most of the Trump supporters were not racists and many were not sexists, but amost all of the racists and sexists were supporters of Trump.
Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen is a French politician and lawyer who has been President of the National Rally (previously the National Front) since 2011. She has been the member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017.
