“Kappelin: Wake Up! Racism is commonplace in Europe and in football”
“Saturday night stormatch in Serie A between Milan and Napoli ended with anticlimax, 0-0. “
“It was a sensitive meeting. Carlo Ancelotti made its premiere at the San Siro as Napoli’s coach against his old club Milan. “
“it was on the day a month ago the racist attacks against Napoli black centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly, in the match against Inter in the same arena. “
“Many feared that the same thing would happen again. But Milan’s fans ”satisfied” with the Napoli tifosi. Old prejudices against syditalienare will often arrive when the club play in the north of Italy. ”They stink and the dogs stand”.”
“Koulibaly must have been tense. His dignity master apart by Inter’s tifosi on boxing day, but even worse was the fact that the match is not blown. Here you can really talk about the violation in the truest sense of the word. “
“this is because There are rules against racism in Italian football. But the judges do not dare to apply them fully because so many and the strong interests speak against such a decision. A called off match where the guilty club will automatically lose, is a bitter punishment. Players that could make a huge difference by speaking out against racism does not open his mouth. Ethics and basic human values that disappear at a moment’s notice. Dutiful excuses always comes too late, and even regeringspolitiker gloss over. “
“It should not be necessary.”
“But to blurt out racist insults or booing a player for his skin colour should really be taken seriously. It is particularly worrying that the attacks on black players becoming increasingly common in Italy. Koulibaly himself says that it feels strange to be a symbol of the fight against racism today. It should not be needed. “
“But it does. There are parallels between the events at the football stadium and the increasingly widespread xenophobia throughout the west. Italy has closed its ports for refugee boats from Africa and, in principle, abrogated the right to a residence permit for humanitarian reasons. In the days closed in a great time in the small town of Castelnuovo di Porto Rome, and hundreds of migrants forced to leave, without knowing where they shall go. A human destiny was picked up by the Italian media. A 19-year-old senegales has been fotbollsidol in the city. He is successful bombs in the local club Castelnuovese. His case is a fine example of football as a possible way to integration. But now he’s going away, towards an uncertain future. “
“at the same time, off the coast of Sicily, is a flyktingfartyg with 47 african migrants are not allowed in the country. No other european country wants to either take them in. At the football stadium roar adult men insults against black players. “
“One of those who have shown solidarity with Koulibaly is Atalanta’s talented colombian striker Zapata, who, himself, is black. He says in a comment that he understands how it must have felt to play a whole match against a buande, excited bunch.”
“It’s actually not very difficult to put into it. It is called compassion.”
“Today is the Holocaust remembrance day in the whole world. On January 27, 1945 liberated the prisoners of Auschwitz, the largest of the nazi concentration camps. Around 6 million jews were murdered by the nazis during the second world war, but also the roma, homosexuals, disabled, political opponents. Holocaust remembrance day is an occasion to reflect on the hatred, racism, anti-semitism, intolerance and xenophobia. Everything again is so present in everyday life in Europe.”
