Italian soccer officials acknowledged this week that something needs to be done about endemic racism in their sport
With players being racially abused by fans, newspapers printing insensitive headlines, and pundits using bigoted language, Italian soccer officials acknowledged this week that something needed to be done about endemic racism in their sport.
However, the campaign that launched Monday has been widely condemned itself as exactly the type of tone-deaf approach that hasTo launch the anti-racism campaign, the country's elite league, Serie A, commissioned three paintings of primates to be installed in the entrance of its main hall in Milan. The artist, Simone Fugazzotto, said the idea came from seeing the Senegalese defender Kalidou Koulibaly subjected to monkey chants — a common example of the racist abuse hurled at players from the bleachers.
"I decided to portray monkeys to talk about racism because they are a metaphor for human beings," Fugazzotto said in a statement released by the league."There is no man or monkey, we are all alike. If anything we are all monkeys." The artist said each one of the paintings represented a different race:"The western monkey with blue and white eyes, the Asian monkey with almond-shaped eyes and the black monkey positioned in the center."Alessandro Sabattini / Getty Images fileLet our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.
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