A French-Malian Singer Is Caught in an Olympic Storm
Briefly

The possible choice for the opening ceremony of Aya Nakamura, a French-Malian singer, has sparked a furor with elements of race, linguistic propriety, and political tensions around immigration.
Right-wing critics have attacked the image as a deliberate dilution of the French nation and its history in a sea of sugary, irreproachable blandness.
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