Jean-Paul Guerlain to be Judged for Racial Insults on February 9th, 2012 {Fragrance News}
Perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain, the last nose of the Guerlain family, will be facing the court on Thursday February 9th 2012 for a racial incident that was broadcast on television on October 15th 2010. He interjected some remarks using the N word and was furthermore deprecatory of slavery wondering whether slaves had been that much hard at work in an implicit comparion with his own work at Guerlain. It was all delivered in a perfectly suave - albeit frail tone - and probably motivated further by a certain old-school desire to be gallant with the woman journalist interviewing him. He was using French stock phrases of the colonial era which only served to show how deeply entrenched racist worldviews are when they are uttered in a perfectly ordinary, conversational tone to just do small talk...
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