Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Lie - Get Hurt. Tell The Truth - Get Hurt: Hurt's On-Point


Italy's only black cabinet minister has called for more support as she endures relentless non-violent racist attacks.

Ms Kyenge has faced a torrent of abuse since her appointment in April from the right-wing Northern League party and its supporters.

The League's newspaper, La Padania, has just begun publishing her daily itinerary - presumably so that the hecklers will always know where to find the minister, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome.

Last year, one of its most senior figures likened her to an orangutan. Another accused Ms Kyenge of wanting to impose "tribal traditions" on Italy.

One of the League's councillors even called for the minister to be raped.

Ms Kyenge has been heckled, and had bananas thrown at her during political rallies.

In a separate development, police confirmed that a suspicious powder mailed to Ms Kyenge on Wednesday was baking soda.

The package was intercepted at a mail-processing centre.







As in so many areas of life, all I can ask is, "Really?"

1 comment:

  1. Yep...from what little I've heard from on the ground folks in Italy, the Lega Nord have always been a bit black shirted/neo-nazi; in recent years the real true blue ones have felt comfortable coming out in the open.

    As for Sharapova -- well, the cult of the Russian/E. European woman pretty much explains that one (and of course she's not going to be stupid enough not to play along, thus getting more money).
    What gets more newstand purchases? Sports Illustrated features of women athletes, or their swimsuit edition? Sharapova is a good, likely excuse (but we love her for her excellent game! not her boobies!).

    PW
    *not that there is anything wrong with men loving women's boobies, but at least let's have a world where people are honest about it, and can admire other things in people, and maybe even admire more human forms than just Barbie and Ken...that would be...nice

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