Stories and News

Stories and News No. 1182   Italy football newspaper Corriere dello Sport presented the upcoming match between Inter and Roma with an infamous title. Here is how the editor, Ivan Zazzaroni , explains that: “ Whites, blacks, Yellow. Denying the difference is the typical macroscopic stumbling block of anti-racism’s racism. Black Friday, to those who want and can understand it, was and is only the praise of difference, the pride of difference, the magnificent wealth of difference .” Well… I have a different opinion about what a difference is. Lukaku and Smalling . The former is a striker . One who craves the goal. Who tries to see the net dancing thanks to its own aim, his strength or even the luck of having succeeded in defeating his greatest enemy, the last guardian and protector of the result until proven otherwise. In short, the goalkeeper . The latter is a defender . One that prevents the goal. Who tries to keep the friendly door safe with his quick reflexes, ...

Stories and News No. 897 Emmanuel Chidi Namdi , a Nigerian asylum seeker, was beaten to death after trying to defend his wife from a racist attack by a right-wing man in Italy. There is a place. I know it exists. And you know it too. There is a place where a man is killed for the color of his skin , period. Without further words, silly chats, or even lies. A place where the culprit is the killer . But he is not alone. Guilty are also those who every day exploit and insult, abuse and manipulate, for only personal gain or solely for a simple outburst of the moment, the most vulnerable skins. Along with the murderer and all of them are guilty as well those who do nothing to oppose, remember the infamous, appalling silence of the so-called good people . They do, maybe even more, those who pretend to do something, with the sole purpose of continuing to take advantage of the case in their favor. Because this is the color of the skin. Only a lucky, or just the opposite, res...

Stories and News No. 720 After his recent statements on the excessive presence of black players in Italian youth football teams, Arrigo Sacchi and almost all his supporters deny the charges of racism saying that the coach was referring to foreign players. So, it was 'just' the proud defense of Italic identity and dignity. I think this is a disease very widespread in Italy, even where you least expect it. Often, the worst racist is who does not know to be... There are them. And they are many. There are those who seeing a black man immediately would image him praying Muhammad. Before any other god. Atheist is excluded. And there are those who meeting a black woman would first have to ask where she came from. Since when she lives here, how her country is and so on questioning. Even before knowing her name. Let alone her dreams. There are those who encountering a black guy would assume he could not speak their language. At the risk of getting someone very fam...