Has anyone noticed in North America the BBC Worldservice news bulletin all day today on the half hour

announcing an mayoral order to close down a Black Feminist conference for prioritizing attendance by women of colour.  Evidently 80% of the spaces have been reserved for those for whom the conference was organised, God forbid.  

here it is in the Guardian, UK:

Paris mayor demands black feminist festival that 'prohibits' white people be banned

Paris mayor demands black feminist festival that 'prohibits' white ... Anne Hidalgo says organisers of the Nyansapo Festival in the capital could be prosecuted because most of the eve...

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