{"id":11696,"date":"2013-11-14T10:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T10:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T10:07:50","slug":"the-word-banana-leads-to-racism-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11696","title":{"rendered":"The word ‘banana’ leads to racism investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christiane Taubira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The French government has opened a racism investigation after a far-right magazine used word “banana” in a picture of the country’s black justice minister on its cover.<\/p>\n

In a statement Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he had brought Minute magazine to the attention of the Paris prosecutor, citing French law that forbids racist abuse.<\/p>\n

The magazine described Justice Minister Christiane Taubira as “crafty as a monkey” and referred obliquely to an incident when she was greeted by racist taunts from a young girl at a recent protest against gay marriage in the western city of Angers. She was also compared to a monkey on the Facebook page of a candidate for the right-wing National Front party.<\/p>\n

Helene Valette, a spokeswoman for the magazine, said the cover was satire and accused the government of trying to distract the French from the country’s real problems.<\/p>\n

“It’s a front page with a play on words. There’s nothing mean about it,” Valette said. – AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The French government has opened a racism investigation after a far-right magazine used word “banana” in a picture of the country’s black justice minister on its cover. In a statement Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he had brought Minute magazine to the attention of the Paris prosecutor, citing French law that forbids racist abuse. … Continue reading “The word ‘banana’ leads to racism investigation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[7382,7379,7381,7380,7383],"class_list":["post-11696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-christiane-taubira","tag-french-governmen","tag-minute","tag-racism-investigation","tag-right-wing-national-front"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/minute.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11699,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions\/11699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}