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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

No, Jimmy the Greek's hypothesis was that slaves were bred to be bigger, stronger, faster. As a result descendants of slaves were better athletes.

Noah's hypothesis was that five members of the French soccer team with African ancestry was the reason the team won, so much so that it wasn't a French victory but African victory.



Ridiculous. How exactly did France deny their heritage?



Yes, well the Nazi's also have a form of "pride of identity". They are mirror images of one another.



The trick is that the French never erased anyone's heritage. No one has denied where they came from, who their parents were or any of their family history. All the French are saying is that the team was the French Team.

It was Noah, not the French, who erased the French team, saying that "Africa won the world cup". Anyone who embraced the French team as their team, including all of the players, would have been offended by that.

The French Ambassador to the U.S., Gérard Araud, legitimated denial of the player's African heritage when he wrote "Unlike in the United States of America, France does not refer to its citizens based on their race, religion or origin. To us there is no hyphenated identity."

A few European players of hyphenated origin confirmed that their ethnic heritages are denied:

Benzema: ‘When I score I’m French, when I don’t I’m an Arab’

Lukaku: ‘When things were going well, I was Lukaku the Belgian striker...when they weren’t going well, I was the Belgian striker of Congolese descent’

Ozil: ‘When we win, I am German. When we lose, I am an immigrant’

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When Trevor Noah validated the player's African heritage without acknowledging their Frenchness he apparently felt he was justly counter-balancing the omission of the French media and therefore he was unapologetic about it.