Ralph Peters is all wet today in the New York Post (America’s Newspaper of Record)

According to Ralph, “There is no Western country more profoundly racist than France. There’s nothing resembling equal-opportunity programs or affirmative action.”

Leaving aside the question as to what “equal opportunity” and “affirmative action” are doing in the same sentence, if life for your average North African in France is so bloody intolerable, there is a rather obvious remedy available to him.

Ralph’s closing exhortation is “Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine.”

Call me an effete bigot, Ralph, but if I have to take sides in this fight, I’m ready to swallow the Francophobia I took in with my mother’s milk and take a stand with the heirs of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Delacroix, Ingres, Manet, Rodin, Berlioz, Chopin, Lavoisier, Pasteur, Lemaitre, Viete, Descartes, Cauchy, Fourier, Laplace, Poincare, Hadamard, de Tocqueville, and a couple of thousand other builders of Western civilization who just had bad luck with their place of birth, against a rabble of drug dealers, pickpockets and jihadis from the souks of Barbary.

But hey, that’s me.