You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning
night hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a
man
I am reminded of this often to Primo Levi, I think I sent to memory during the first years of high school or maybe even in middle school. What year was strange, I remember it was a time when if you said you were a racist all you said that did not understand anything, that racism is wrong, the years when you are told that Einstein's famous phrase in front of the clerk ' immigration office in New York asking him to race that belonged replied: "I belong to the human race."
Consider if this is a man. Today
remained virtually nothing, we all entered the tunnel just horror that the train was broken and we have not gone out.
I was talking with a teacher some time ago, I asked to go and speak of Soha in its class (a 5th high school on the outskirts of Milan) with the phrases: "Well you know, now the survivors of concentration camps, there are so few, however, as it is a good initiative, if you talk to her ... "What bad luck, extreme old age or death of the survivors had worse the nice private Italian teacher of his" good initiative ", very similar, its eyes, the national day of animal protection or the festival of fried dumplings.
"I come to speak only if I do say something about Porrajmos" I say to the nice lady
"What is it?" He asks.
I explain that it is the systematic extermination by the Nazis staged at the expense of Roma and Sinti in Eastern Europe. The prof
expression changes ... "Well no, you know we are interested in the Jews?"
"Why, I ask, there are deaths of Series A and Series B"
always fall for it all ... the teacher is quite embarrassed and it shows "No, you say? But in fact we are interested in Auschwitz, which is also then, as it were, subject to scrutiny for the scenes that nice Italian professors, if not part of the program does not give a damn!
"But the Roma were concentrated in the death camps of Auschwitz, Belzen and exterminated in a manner similar to the Jews, at least for historical completeness ..."
"Yes, but you know, in the end it killed a few people" now up to me to be appalled the smallness of the lady ... "A few?"
"Then listen, let's face it, if she goes around saying that Hitler killed the gypsies also likely to make a myth in the eyes of children" What
dramatic truth, saying that six million of Jews were killed too can impress, but to say that a group of killers managed to kill a million Gypsies are likely to become heroes in the eyes of the killers of young people so addicted to the racism of today.
Today the newspapers are so full of grief cowardly.
Napolitano grieves for victims of the fire on Via Appia Nuova: Four children (the youngest of four years) "They can not die so even if they are gypsies ... I heard this comment from the newspaper this morning and did the priest of my country.
The right-wing politicians who have blown up any kind of racism just to get elected to remain silent or call for new special powers, the Italian perfectly logical that everything becomes an emergency, but only in retrospect, after years it is planned imperterritamente disaster.
Gianni Alemanno has failed, no worse, Gianni Alemanno is a failure, on the institutional and the political.
He managed to make mistakes in every field in which he tried to get my hands.
And his failure is given by one and pitiless historical truth: this policy has no interest in the company but only vague and unspecified interests poltronistici to fulfill.
So you go to the Capitol or the Palazzo Marino, or any other building, riding the worst fears and miseries of the people ... by focusing on issues that in hindsight are not problems but reflected a mentality Sports Bar, those things that before a bianchino we are good to put them all marked with 4 shot. And only because it is company policy not know anything and do not even want to know.
In a city that is increasingly strangled by concrete and no longer has a square meter that is not colonized by this or that building speculators, where the TMP, if any, is probably used to line the bottom of the cage of canaries of various Caltagirone & C., the major problems that Aleman was able to find were to get elected, Roma and prostitutes.
The first, he promised, away from the fields, in a Nazi deportation Revaival of the old with the only difference that at least knew where the Nazis sent them to die, Alemanno I miss that, in the second off the streets.
After a year the streets are again filled with prostitutes, but probably is no longer a social problem in view of the small vices of the Popes of Arcore.
Roma instead remain a damned problem, the tendency they have, especially children, die because of cold remedies they use to move it. Before
Alemannic put their hands on the Roma camps were counted 7 authorized camps and 80 squatter camps.
Today in Rome There are 7 fields but allowed the squatters are now 209 and this number is obviously calculated to default because they are counted by the police.
Mission accomplished! He said after the Lupomanno (which half failed) census of Roma in the capital and the closing of a certain number of major media sites ...
And now? What will the mayor of the capital? He will seek special powers to solve the problems he himself created exacerbating an already difficult situation? Or deliver the proxy to the problem to one of his buddies that the solution we have surely?
to advise the mayor not to underestimate the ex fascistone Nar Francis White. Do you remember? What I wanted to use the Napalm on demonstrators last December, what had been hired as an employee because ATAC Gianni "Er Celica" is so good, that young people shouting "Vintages at work and otherwise fateve recommended".
is this here might be a job for a well, or for one of the many far-right militants failed means that the mayor has been charged in recent months, closer to lend a hand to the old comrades to understand that a city so complex that an English writer of 1800 described it thus: "Rome is a city \u200b\u200bthat can govern only a saint or a fool. "
Giannino certainly not a saint, and even asked him, not even a madman.
Giannino is a failure, and failure in politics, as a rule, disappear quickly and the more quickly they forget ... in Italy, we have so many failures that I fear will not forget in a hurry, but basically I'm confident.
And maybe the confidence that things will change now is an act of faith due to: the need for young people who mythologized because Hitler killed the Roma and their teachers who have lost the desire to understand them, we have the four children that indifference killed in a bloody night in the Appian Way New.
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