Sarkozy the Anti-Frenchman

This video, from Novopress, is in two parts. The first part is from a notorious speech delivered in Palaiseau, near Paris, in 2008, in which Nicolas Sarkozy informed his people that they had to embrace "métissage" (intermarriage, miscegenation), or suffer dire consequences. I reported on this major event in December 2008 (note that the link to François Desouche in that post no longer works). The second part is from a speech in Saudi Arabia (date not certain, but it was after he became president) in which he proclaims that nothing is more dangerous than an identity that has been humiliated.

Here is an approximate translation. This version of the Palaiseau speech differs somewhat from my earlier translation, not in substance, but in choice of words. You will note the menacing tone of the first part compared to the friendly reassurances of the second:

"The objective is to meet the challenge of "métissage". It is not a choice. It is an obligation, an imperative. We cannot do otherwise. We would run the risk of having to confront considerable problems. We must change; we will change. We will change everything at the same time everywhere in the country: in the administration of the State, in education, in the political parties, and we will be accountable for the results. If this cannot be accomplished through voluntary efforts, it will be necessary for the Republic to resort to even more stringent measures."

"My friends of Saudi Arabia, this is not about imposing one and only one model of civilization. That would be repeating once again the tragic errors that in the past caused so much misery. It would mean a denial of identities. It would revive not peace or fraternity, but violence. For nothing is more dangerous than a wounded identity, a humiliated identity. A humiliated identity is a radicalized identity."

And nothing is more dangerous than a leader who humiliates his own people, except a population that has had enough of being humiliated.