Right Now. They Were Before. I Don't Know About After.

I can still remember Americans attacking me for "lying about France" when they'd never lived there or visited more than Paris. 

Compared to the U.S. (they said) France was a paradise, and I was another crazy nigger who should just shut my open-faced pie hole because,...because,...whether I'd traveled the place or not,…or even then,...and even if,...I just couldn't know! I just couldn't! 

But know, the Gaulic version of Charades,, I do - AND (in some cases) the evidence keeps growing that I, also, know better:

  "France's growing problem of homelessness was laid bare by new figures released this week, which show that a person living on the streets dies every 20 hours."

Here's something else, I've learned, that's not necessarily "good" but "good to know" - and not just about the French, but people: 

They're not worth the truth - and just might get you killed,….