Paris — A little-known French rapper has caused outrage by calling for whites to be killed in a video depicting a white man being tortured, shot and hanged. The video by Nick Conrad — which controversial black comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, a convicted anti-Semite, linked to on his Facebook page on Saturday — was viewed thousands of times on YouTube before being taken down on Wednesday. In one scene from ‘PLB’ (short for ‘Pendez Les Blancs’, or ‘Hang Whites’) the rapper and an associate drag their white victim along the pavement and kick him in the head, in an apparent reference to a scene from the film American History X, about the abuse of blacks by American neo-Nazis. The lyrics evoke the killing of adults and children. The rapper sings: "I walk into creches, I kill white babies, catch them quick and hang their parents." Government spokesperson Benjamin Griveaux condemned the "hateful, nauseating lyrics in the strongest possible terms", as did interior minister Gerard Collomb,...
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