Uniter not a divider, the second act?

Following the announcement of the Sarkozy victory last night, trouble started quickly enough between police and protesters. A normally quiet evening was full of helicopters in the air and sirens. At his victory speech, Sarkozy covered a lot of ground including reaching out to Africa, helping battered women around the world and generating jobs and hope for the troubled suburbs of France where unemployment is rampant. The two sides of Sarkozy - one calling suburban youth "scum" and the other calling for affirmative action and quotas - remain a mystery. He still remains the only serious force that talks of addressing the racial inequalities that are dividing France, but he also ran hard on anti-immigration positions.

One final tidbit of interest from the election yesterday is that roughly 20% either abstained or voted blank in an otherwise high turnout of 84%.

He's a uniter, in theory, so why are so many afraid of him?