Black minister gets bananas thrown at here in Italy

steddyeddy

Ihttp://m.rte.ie/news/touch/2013/0727/464943-italy-cecile-kyenge/

Well I think the title says it all really. A black minister has bananas thrown at her in Italy. Someone should tiell said Italians why they have dark skin I think.

Ilik Urgee

She must've been hoppin!

1ZRed

This is Ireland

steddyeddy

Title should have said her.

snubbleste

Anyone else think it was a protestant minister?

kaimera

Italy in racism shocker.

PizzamanIRL

steddyeddy wrote: »

Title should have said her.

Grammar Nazi :P

returnNull

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Grammar Nazi :P

yeah steddyeddy is lucky he didnt get carded for that:pac:

mitosis

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ihttp://m.rte.ie/news/touch/2013/0727/464943-italy-cecile-kyenge/

Well I think the title says it all really. A black minister has bananas thrown at her in Italy. Someone should tiell said Italians why they have dark skin I think.

Yeah, no one ever had bananas thrown at them in Ireland

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/community-service-for-man-who-threw-banana-at-premiership-footballer-1.1356290

hfallada

It was equally likely to happen in any European country and not just Italy. Ireland's population is 20% foreign born(although a lot of Irish people were born abroad) but yet not a single senior figure in government or in government body is a non national

Duckworth_Luas

hfallada wrote: »

Ireland's population is 20% foreign born

No it's not!

Outkast_IRE

hfallada wrote: »

It was equally likely to happen in any European country and not just Italy. Ireland's population is 20% foreign born(although a lot of Irish people were born abroad) but yet not a single senior figure in government or in government body is a non national

Sure most tds are school teachers, no non national school teachers = little chance of non nationals making it into government.

The Backwards Man

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Sure most tds are school teachers, no non national school teachers = little chance of non nationals making it into government.

Aren't secondary schoolteachers non-national schoolteachers?:p

namloc1980

hfallada wrote: »

Ireland's population is 20% foreign born(although a lot of Irish people were born abroad) but yet not a single senior figure in government or in government body is a non national

73% of statistics are made up nonsense.

My name is URL

You've got to laugh at their stupidity all the same. I mean what exactly is the message that they're trying to convey.. that she's somehow subhuman?

She's a successful & wealthy doctor and politician, and they're flinging fruit like dribbling idiots.

Gummy Panda

My name is URL wrote: »

You've got to laugh at their stupidity all the same. I mean what exactly is the message that they're trying to convey.. that she's somehow subhuman?

She's a successful & wealthy doctor and politician, and they're flinging fruit like dribbling idiots.

Maybe they were concerned about her potassium levels.

mike65

hfallada wrote: »

It was equally likely to happen in any European country and not just Italy. Ireland's population is 20% foreign born(although a lot of Irish people were born abroad) but yet not a single senior figure in government or in government body is a non national

The son of one is though! And Ireland already has had an ethnic foreign born type - in the Dail Moosajee Bhamjee.

wendell borton

mike65 wrote: »

The son of one is though! And Ireland already has had an ethnic foreign born type - in the Dail Moosajee Bhamjee.

We even had a foreign toiseach and president.

bumper234

namloc1980 wrote: »

73% of statistics are made up nonsense.

Says 88% of boards posters.

mikemac1

Italian politician, gotta be corrupt

Sir Osis of Liver.

Was it a fyffes?

Duckworth_Luas

mikemac1 wrote: »

Italian politician, gotta be corrupt

Shaddap your face!

Killer Wench

How fascinating. I know a few Black American women who swear that Italian men lurrrrves Black women. Maybe it's an American thing. I met an Italian opera singer who swore up and down that I must sing like Aretha Franklin. He kept badgering me to sing with him. He then shimmied at me. Shimmied!

mike65

Killer Wench wrote: »

How fascinating. I know a few Black American women who swear that Italian women lurrrrves Black women. Maybe it's an American thing. I met an Italian opera singer who swore up and down that I must sing like Aretha Franklin. He kept badgering me to sing with him. He then shimmied at me. Shimmied!

Lesbian thing is the issue maybe?

Nodin

Killer Wench wrote: »

How fascinating. I know a few Black American women who swear that Italian women lurrrrves Black women. Maybe it's an American thing. I met an Italian opera singer who swore up and down that I must sing like Aretha Franklin. He kept badgering me to sing with him. He then shimmied at me. Shimmied!

...weird.

Killer Wench

mike65 wrote: »

Lesbian thing is the issue maybe?

Lack of coffee. That should be men.

*sigh*

Jimminy Mc Fukhead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM

biko

It was racist making her integration minister, like she would be best at that because of her colour.
Same in Sweden, the first black minister - Nyamko Sabuni, was also integration minister.
"You're black, let's make you minister for integration. Sorry, Finance, Defence and Transport were already taken..."

My name is URL

biko wrote: »

It was racist making her integration minister, like she would be best at that because of her colour.
Same in Sweden, the first black minister - Nyamko Sabuni, was also integration minister.
"You're black, let's make you minister for integration. Sorry, Finance, Defence and Transport were already taken..."

She has years of experience and expertise on matters relating to integration and cooperation, she set up an association promoting integration in 2002.. it would be absurd to assume that she was given the responsibility simply because of her skin colour.

kfk

What harm? She probably loves bananas!

biko

kfk wrote: »

What harm? She probably loves bananas!

http://youtu.be/wJ4B7G8Rw3Q?t=38s

Hande hoche!

Jimminy Mc Fukhead wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM

That's a great scene.

mike65

kfk wrote: »

What harm? She probably loves bananas!

That's what they said about John Barnes

MiseryMary

Sorry but why is throwing a banana considered racist ? what started it as a racist thing? I'm just curious what if someone threw Eg a pineapple or a kiwi or cherries .

Grab All Association

mitosis wrote: »

Yeah, no one ever had bananas thrown at them in Ireland

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/community-service-for-man-who-threw-banana-at-premiership-footballer-1.1356290

Judge Eugene O’Kelly said he would have had no hesitation in sending Reynolds to prison except he “feared other prisoners may extract their own punishment on him for having sullied and marred their city’s reputation”

Most of those prisoners have already sullied and marred the city's reputation.

Killer Wench

MiseryMary wrote: »

Sorry but why is throwing a banana considered racist ? what started it as a racist thing? I'm just curious what if someone threw Eg a pineapple or a kiwi or cherries .

Seriously?

For a long time, people have called black people apes and monkeys. They are tossing bananas to a monkey.

Lelantos

mike65 wrote: »

That's what they said about John Barnes

No,they used throw pies at him!

Menas

MiseryMary wrote: »

Sorry but why is throwing a banana considered racist ? what started it as a racist thing? I'm just curious what if someone threw Eg a pineapple or a kiwi or cherries .

This must be a windup?

skimpydoo

Oops Just spotted my youtube clip above.

cherryghost

If it's not Fyffe's then it's not worth throwing.

NuckingFacker

Steddyeddy is in Italy. Must be on his hols. Show-off. In other news, quite a few Italians are rascists, I've yet to meet one that isn't actually and I grew up surrounded by them. If you're not a home grown Roman, you're dirt.. My mums from roscommon, she regards italians as "bloody foreign deigos", so I suppose it all balances out... everyone hates everyone on some level, for no great reason that anyone can explain to me.

Super-Rush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efz8nIgIp5I

MiseryMary

Killer Wench wrote: »

Seriously?

For a long time, people have called black people apes and monkeys. They are tossing bananas to a monkey.

Well putting that way It does sound horrible but look at the bright-side this minister lady didn't leave them intimate her by a throwing banana she thinks its stupid,sad and a waste of fruit ,oh she's a black minister now so its like a big **** you to the ones who were racist towards her. leading example to rise above such petty things.

DEFTLEFTHAND

They laid rose petals in front of Matteo Messina Denaro's BMW 'Baby Mafia' as his cavalcade rolled into Palermo when he was made head of La Cosa Nostra. He made peace with the Camorra and 'Ndrangneta and solidified the different groups in a tetchy union.

That's more important to Italians than anything else, they respect the bad guy. To some the bigger bad guy is the state. They've given up on their country because of these fcuking scumbags. The 'Systema' is another name for the Camorra in the Campania region, The System that you just have to accept.

bizmark

Maybe they just dont like a non Italian coming in and trying to change the laws to ensure the country is more easily over run with boats from north Africa ?

Devils advocate but i dont blame them be better off politcaly defeating her plan though like ireland changed that very law shes trying to introduce (or wants to)

Ruudi_Mentari

steddyeddy wrote: »

Someone should tiell said Italians why they have dark skin I think.

I thought that referred to the eyes. Do you think anyone with a darker pigmentation is some form of negroid more than you might be because as they say ultimately we are all of afrika right

I bet my eyes are bluer than you. Or anyone's, for that matter

Nodin

bizmark wrote: »

Maybe they just dont like a non Italian..............

She's Italian.

batistuta9

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They laid rose petals in front of Matteo Messina Denaro's BMW 'Baby Mafia' as his cavalcade rolled into Palermo when he was made head of La Cosa Nostra. He made peace with the Camorra and 'Ndrangneta and solidified the different groups in a tetchy union.

That's more important to Italians than anything else, they respect the bad guy. To some the bigger bad guy is the state. They've given up on their country because of these fcuking scumbags. The 'Systema' is another name for the Camorra in the Campania region, The System that you just have to accept.

you never miss an opportunity to get a bit of wiseguys trivia in

suicide_circus

My name is URL wrote: »

She has years of experience and expertise on matters relating to integration and cooperation, she set up an association promoting integration in 2002.. it would be absurd to assume that she was given the responsibility simply because of her skin colour.

absurd? no.

bizmark

Nodin wrote: »

She's Italian.

No shes not she was born in the congo seems most every thing she has done so far since going to italy when she was around 20 is to benefit her own people or non Italians in Italy a country that is not hers now she wants to go one more and make it easier for her own people or non Italians to gain citizenship in italy.

I can see why she is an easy target she seems very self serving im not sympathetic to her plight or cause tbh

Nodin

bizmark wrote: »

No shes not she was born in the congo seems most every thing she has done so far since going to italy is to benefit her own people or non Italians in Italy a country that is not hers now she wants to go one more and make it easier for her own people or non Italians to gain citizenship in italy.

I can see why she is an easy target she seems very self serving

....the usual mickey. She's an Italian citizen, so yes the country is "hers" now. She was originally from the Congo. If she has sympathy with those who were in her position, that's hardly suprising - its not something unique to either Africans or Italy.