{"id":8054,"date":"2013-07-29T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2013-07-29T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:01:32","slug":"bananas-thrown-at-italys-black-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8054","title":{"rendered":"Bananas thrown at Italy&#8217;s black minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5728\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cecile-Kyenge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5728\" alt=\"Cecile Kyenge\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cecile-Kyenge-300x156.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cecile-Kyenge-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cecile-Kyenge.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecile Kyenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italy&#8217;s first black minister, a target of racist slurs since her appointment in April, has condemned a spectator who threw bananas towards her while she was making a speech at a party rally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Integration minister Cecile Kyenge, who was born in Democratic Republic of\u00a0Congo, has angered far-right groups with her campaign to make it easier for immigrants to gain Italian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly before the incident on Friday, members of the right-wing Forza Nuova group left mannequins covered in fake blood at the site of the rally in Cervia, central\u00a0Italy, in protest against Kyenge&#8217;s proposal to make anyone born on Italian soil a citizen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Immigration kills,&#8221; was written on leaflets accompanying the dummies &#8211; a slogan Forza Nuova has previously used when referring to murders committed by immigrants in\u00a0Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the bananas missed the stage where Kyenge was speaking, she responded to the gesture on Twitter, calling it &#8220;sad&#8221; and a waste of food, considering the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The courage and optimism to change things has to come above all from the bottom up to reach the institutions,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyenge has faced regular insults since becoming minister, often from other politicians. Earlier this month a senior parliamentarian in the anti-immigration Northern League party likened her to an orangutan and only apologized after a storm of criticism. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s first black minister, a target of racist slurs since her appointment in April, has condemned a spectator who threw bananas towards her while she was making a speech at a party rally. Integration minister Cecile Kyenge, who was born in Democratic Republic of\u00a0Congo, has angered far-right groups with her campaign to make it easier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bananas thrown at Italy&#8217;s black minister&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[4445,3130,1588,4444,2556,65,157],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-bananas","tag-cecile-kyenge","tag-congo","tag-forza-nuova","tag-italy","tag-race","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cecile-Kyenge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}