Europeans, Brosio: ” Italy on its knees? I only do it in front of God and the martyrs of my homeland ”

Will Italy kneel? ” Why is it considered racist if one does not kneel? I kneel alone in front of God and the martyrs of the Fatherland ”. So Paolo Brosio at Adnkronos on the choice of the Italian national football team to kneel in the next match of the European Championships against Belgium as a sign of the fight against racism. ” Full solidarity with Floyd and all those who are wronged by justice, regardless of color – he continues – but why the protest must necessarily take place through the act of kneeling? It’s not part of my culture. I am amazed at Letta who as the head of a party says: ‘You have to kneel down’, but to whom? To a cultural orientation that has chosen that way of protest? But if I choose another way of protest, isn’t that the same thing? Why not take a minute of silence instead to express your solidarity with the victims of racism? -continues Brosio- and then women? In Italy we have an exponential number of women killed or harassed but I have never seen anyone kneel for women. If we kneel – continues the journalist – we must also do so for children, innocent victims of murder and pedophilia and for the elderly, often abandoned in retirement homes and beaten. So what should we do in the face of the millions of peasants exterminated by Stalin? What is that? The silence of the lambs? ” Concludes Brosio. (by Alisa Toaff)