{"id":3495,"date":"2012-12-11T07:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T07:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2012-12-11T07:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T07:38:02","slug":"miss-france-as-white-as-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3495","title":{"rendered":"Miss France &#8216;as white as snow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3497\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Marine_Lorphelin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3497\" title=\"Marine_Lorphelin\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Marine_Lorphelin-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Marine_Lorphelin-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Marine_Lorphelin-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Marine_Lorphelin.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marine Lorphelin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A black rights group on Monday slammed the latest Miss France competition for producing a &#8220;white as snow&#8221; winner from a field it claimed was unrepresentative of the country&#8217;s ethnic make-up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marine Lorphelin, 19, a brunette medical student from Burgundy, was on Saturday crowned Miss France 2013, having edged out Miss Tahiti, Hinarini de Longeaux, in the final round of judging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Louis-Georges Tin, the president of the CRAN (Representative Council of Black Associations), on Monday lamented the lack of contestants from France&#8217;s African and north African communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The failure to represent the contemporary French population in an event such as this is obviously serious,&#8221; Tin said in a statement issued jointly with Fred Royer, the creator of Miss Black France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It amounts to denying the very existence of French people of African origin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the 33 finalists in Saturday&#8217;s contest, eight were from ethnic minorities with six of those coming from France&#8217;s Pacific or Caribbean territories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In the antiquated world of Miss France, blacks apparently can only come from overseas departments,&#8221; the CRAN statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As for Frenchwomen of north African heritage, they were &#8216;represented&#8217; by only one candidate who was quickly eliminated (too Muslim perhaps?).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">France is home to around five million Muslims, most of them of north African origin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement went on to express regret that &#8220;Miss France is as white as the end of year snow on the steeples of an eternal France.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black rights group on Monday slammed the latest Miss France competition for producing a &#8220;white as snow&#8221; winner from a field it claimed was unrepresentative of the country&#8217;s ethnic make-up. Marine Lorphelin, 19, a brunette medical student from Burgundy, was on Saturday crowned Miss France 2013, having edged out Miss Tahiti, Hinarini de Longeaux, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miss France &#8216;as white as snow&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[2309,534,2310,2311,2308,157],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-cran","tag-france","tag-marine-lorphelin","tag-miss-black-france","tag-miss-france","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Marine_Lorphelin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","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=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}