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Serie A (Italian Football) ANTI-RACISM artwork launched
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The three works were created by Simone Fugazzotto and will be on permanent display at the league’s headquarters in Milan. The league said the images are intended to “spread the values of integration, multiculturalism and brotherhood”. Italian football has been blighted by monkey chants and other incidents of racist abuse this season, with Brescia’s Mario Balotelli and Internazionale’s Romelu Lukaku among players targeted. Announcing the new project, the Serie A chief executive, Luigi de Siervo, said: “Football is an extraordinary tool for conveying positive messages, fair play and tolerance. Simone’s paintings fully reflect these values and will remain on show in our headquarters.” Fugazzotto said the work was intended to show “we are complex and fascinating creatures that we can be sad or happy, Catholics, Muslims or Buddhists, but that, after all, our actions determine who we are, not the colour of the skin. “I only paint monkeys as a metaphor for human beings. We turn the concept back on the racists, as we are all monkeys originally. So I painted a western monkey, an Asian monkey and a black monkey.” The artist added he was inspired after the Napoli centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly was subjected to racist abuse at Inter last season. -- “Fantastic to see Serie A anti-racism campaign posters (yes, it’s really real),” tweeted the former England forward Stan Collymore. “Maybe get the mascots to black up as a finishing touch.” https://www.theguardian.com/football...rtwork-monkeys I.. |
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“Fantastic to see Serie A anti-racism campaign posters (yes, it’s really real),”
tweeted the former England forward Stan Collymore. “Maybe get the mascots to black up as a finishing touch.” says it all, I mean what the hell were they thinking |
i'm speechless. It's pretty obvious what they really think
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“I only paint monkeys as a metaphor for human beings. We turn the concept
back on the racists, as we are all monkeys originally. So I painted a western monkey, an Asian monkey and a black monkey.” that will learn em |
'Humans and monkeys are both*primates. But humans are*not*descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We*do*share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. But humans and chimpanzees evolved differently from that same ancestor. All apes and monkeys share a more distant relative, which lived about 25 million years ago'
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How could it have got that far? I mean, from the first suggestion, through all the drafts.... and no one said, hang on a minute.....
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They should've listened to the poor guy who, at the start of the meeting, suggested "Racism will not be tolerated" signs in bold Helvetica to be placed around the stadium. :skull:
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