Because Tumblr is very English speaking and some ppl like France a little too much I just want to remind you of a few things:
- France abolished the Code Noir 2 months ago. That law project that said hey you can enslave, mutilate, kill, cross breed, etc. black people at will bc they're not people they're property ? Yeah. Abolished 2 months ago. We are in July 2026.
- the last human zoo closed its doors in 1994 in France due to social pressure. Not bc they were running out of business, no. Ppl still visited that place until it closed its doors. No, it was bc (black) French people were fed up. That human zoo was specialized in displaying black (presumed Congolese) people in fake huts in enclosures, for white entertainment.
- now while this might no longer be the case, when I was growing up, I went to a French school (as in. It was an international French School w the French flag n all) and the way we were taught French geography was that France has the biggest and largest access to the sea in the world. And they'd show us a map of France and its colonies around the world. It's all occupied indigenous lands. I don't know if they still teach that. I hope not. But they absolutely did until I graduated high school in 2017. Again, I write this on July 21st 2026, for the record.
Anyways that's all I have for now. Y'all don't hate France enough. Y'all need to hate France more.
not to mention the haitian independence debt. even after managing to lead a revolution against slave owners on the island france still demanded them to pay debt for the lost slaves from 150 million francs to 60 million francs. the final pay was made in 1947. 143 years after the haitian revolution of 1804.
Now I wasn't going to bring up my country yet because I wanted to mainly focus on the things France did recently and have exported but yeah they did that.
And the reason we had our revolution in the first place was BECAUSE of the Code Noir, specifically Napoléon's reinforcing of its application. The revolution ended in 1804 but it was brewing for long before that and French aggressions were particularly cruel in the decade before 1804.
That same Code Noir that was finally abolished 2 months ago.
And that same Napoléon (1er) that current French president Macron is rumoured to be a fan of. (Whether that rumour is true or not I cannot say. However I CAN say that there has been a dramatic increase in "historical documentaries" (i.e. propaganda) on French television to paint Napoléon as a French hero™ since that man came in power. Shout out to Secrets D'histoire specifically, bc that docu series is very popular and particularly egregious in that domain and is never out of reruns on international French channels.)
Again, people don't hate France enough.
