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信源：英国《每日电讯报》
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据7月27日报道，意大利首位黑人部长塞茜尔·基延格日前又遭到种族歧视行为的攻击，该国政治家和评论员通过媒体对此严厉谴责，称这种极右翼的行为令意大利蒙羞。
意大利首位黑人部长塞茜尔·基延格日前又被极右翼分子扔香蕉。
事情发生在26日，基延格当时在一个集会上发表演讲，突然一名听众开始朝她扔香蕉碎块，不过幸运的是，基延格没有被击中。当地媒体随后对此进行了深度的报道，谴责了这种极右翼的行为。罗马市长詹尼·阿雷曼诺说：“这不过又是一个可耻的行为。我们与基延格部长团结在一起，孤立那些蠢货。”推特上名为欧金尼奥的网友说：“与这种人呆在一个国家令我感到羞愧。”
基延格是刚果(金)裔意大利人，今年4月被任命为一体化部长后，不时遭到种族言论攻击。就在本月13日，意大利参议院副议长罗伯托·卡尔代罗利在一次政治集会上说：“大家都知道，我喜欢动物，无论是熊或狼。但每当看到(塞茜尔·)基延格的照片，我都忍不住想，即便我不说她是(头猩猩)，她的特征像猩猩。”这番言论一出，招致广泛谴责。迫于舆论压力，卡尔代罗利14日晚致电基延格直接道歉。
Bananas
thrown at Italy’s first black minister
Insulting gesture only the latest racist attack on Congo-born
Cecile Kyenge by anti-immigration groups.
Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta, right,
talks with Minister for Integration Cecile Kyenge during a session of the
senate earlier this month. Kyenge has been the target of constant racist slurs
and attacks, particularly from the right-wing Forza Nuova group and the
anti-immigration Northern League party.
By: Reuters
ROME—Some of Italy’s top politicians on Saturday rallied behind
the country’s first black minister, a target of racist slurs since her
appointment in April, after a spectator threw bananas at her while she was
making a speech.
Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge, who is originally from
Democratic Republic of Congo, was appearing at a political rally in Cervia in
central Italy on Friday, when someone in the audience threw bananas towards the
stage, narrowly missing it.
Kyenge has faced almost daily racial slurs and threats since
joining the government. Earlier this month a senator from the anti-immigration
Northern League party likened her to an orangutan and only apologized after a
storm of criticism.
Last month, a local Northern League councillor said Kyenge should
be raped so she understands how victims of crimes committed by immigrants feel.
The councillor has received a suspended jail sentence and a temporary ban from
public office.
Shortly before Friday’s incident, members of the far-right Forza
Nuova group left mannequins covered in fake blood near the site of the
Democratic Party rally in protest against Kyenge’s proposal to make anyone born
on Italian soil a citizen.
“Immigration kills,” was written on leaflets accompanying the
dummies—a slogan Forza Nuova has previously used when referring to murders
committed by immigrants in Italy.
However, on Saturday the group denied that one of its members had
thrown the bananas. Italian police are trying to identify the culprit.
Kyenge responded to the gesture on Twitter, calling it “sad” and a
waste of food.
“The courage and optimism to change things has to come above all
from the bottom up to reach the institutions,” she added.
Several politicians, including her peers in Prime Minister Enrico
Letta’s government, responded with messages of support and condemnation on
Saturday.
Environment Minister Andrea Orlando said on Twitter he felt
“utmost indignation for this lowly act,” while Education Minister Maria Chiara
Carrozza praised Kyenge for her courage and determination in such a hostile
climate.
Veneto region governor Luca Zaia from the Northern League, who is
due to participate in an immigration debate with Kyenge in August, also spoke
out against the incident on Saturday.
“Throwing
bananas, personal insults ... acts like these play no part in the civilized and
democratic discussion needed between the minister and those who don’t share her
opinion,” the ANSA news agency quoted him as saying.
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