According to Lentin, race has become a concern to dialogue about because it has created and constituted a lot of problems that seems not to be incompatible or incomparable in other societies both in Europe and in the United States mainly for the reality of historical slavery, segregation and stratification which has been the birth of United States of America over the matter and divisions of between black color and white colors. However, blackness and whiteness has contributed to irreconcilable extremes which makes United State relationship to ‘race’ more incompatible to the said racism, and this has affected other areas in American region and spread to the hemisphere of Europe territory. In connection to the above statement, Lentin in his views further defines ‘race’ as the political idea develops under specific conditions enabled by the concomitant expansion and internal rationalization of modern nation- states (Lentin, 2004:18-19).
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Because of this, the critics of the colonization of France to the Algerians became linked to the message of human rights to racism, colonialism and antisemitism (Lentin, 2004:119). Secondly, the joint effort of MRAP and LICRA that was established by the Jewish people in 1949 created a universalistic framework in tackling racism and antisemitism. This in its own, created a barricade to fascist colonial system and Holocaust denial. Therefore, with this organizational bodies, the racism against black and Arab people was rooted out and achieved. Thus, the LDH, MRAP and LICRA focuses on French anti- racism on education (Lentin,