Good immigrants and The World Cup
See Something Say Something
Ahmed Ali Akbar
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Watch Aisha's piece on the World Cup and the England flag here: https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/1247224885419016/UzpfSTYwNTU5MDAxNDoxMDE2MDU1NDM0MDk2MDAxNQ/
Read Bim's essay: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bimadewunmi/world-cup-fans-england-france-africa
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm Sari Yassin, not Ahmad Ali Akbar. |
| 0:08.3 | And this is See Something, Say Something. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm guest hosting for Ahmed this week. |
| 0:12.2 | And we'll be looking back at the World Cup and talking a little bit about what it meant for Muslims and immigrants for France to win. |
| 0:21.3 | Just the colonial ties, the idea of rooting for a place that colonized my peoples. |
| 0:25.7 | It's just not happening, fam. |
| 0:32.2 | If you see something, you better up You better say something |
| 0:38.3 | Nothing at all |
| 0:41.3 | Nothing at all |
| 0:43.3 | So the World Cup wrapped up this past weekend with France beating Croatia 4 to 2. |
| 0:50.3 | After France won, people were quick to say that it was a win for Africa because so many |
| 0:56.9 | team members were either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Of course, there was backlash to that. |
| 1:03.5 | French people were saying they were like irked. This whole thing just really summarized so many |
| 1:09.4 | interesting parts of the debate around what it means to immigrate to a place, what it means to assimilate. |
| 1:15.1 | And I am joined by two fantastic people who have been following the World Cup really closely, but also I've been thinking about a lot of the issues that have come up off the field. |
| 1:26.4 | I have Kovier Biakolo. Hello. Hello. Welcome. In addition to having |
| 1:33.4 | the most fire tweets about the World Cup. Like I am not I'm not overselling these tweets. They're the best |
| 1:40.6 | tweets. She is the senior arts and entertainment editor here at BuzzFeed. |
| 1:46.8 | And I also have Aisha Ghani. |
| 1:50.5 | Hi, Aisha. |
| 1:51.7 | Hey. |
| 1:52.9 | And she's a producer and reporter at AJ Plus. |
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