Photos of Meloni in Ethiopia arouse controversy by Djarah Kan: “Racist denial”

“An obscene shot”, hypocritical, when compared with the government’s migration policies and right-wing rhetoric in this camp. The photograph of Giorgia Meloni yesterday in Addis Adeba, where smiling embraces three black children, has not gone unnoticed. The writer and activist Djarah Kan wrote a very harsh post on his Instagram page lining up the contradictions of the image.

“One thing I learned from a very tender ex black girl and pampered even by the worst fascists – reasons Kan – is this: you are very cute as long as you are a small specimen because you don’t recognize right from wrong, you don’t know what it means to demand justice and equity and furthermore you don’t have the faintest idea of ​​what fascism is, or racism, or the rapacious and most furious capitalism that has been stripping the social fabric of your people for centuries, down to the marrow, leaving only the bones and the desperation of who lives with the nightmare of having been cursed by poverty”.

Kan recounts, recalling her own experience as a child of Ghanaian origin: “When you are a small black person and the most racist whites have no problem cuddling you, hugging you, promising you the world and the best of possible futures, in their eyes what they see is not a future adult to be rejected, repatriated and scuttled at the cost of imposing a brutal naval blockade. You are a sweet black child. And you can’t say no to a black child. Black children are a favorite storytelling trope of the fascist rhetoric, because showing tenderness towards them means building a more bearable narrative in step with the times in which, wishing to erase black people from the face of the earth is no. Expel them from the country in the name of the safety of the Italians, sending them back to Libya where they could be subjected to imprisonment, sold as slaves or abused in all ways, instead it is a yes. More acceptable. More elegant”.

According to the feminist and anti-racist activist “today it is important to be racist without appearing to be racist. The future of racism itself depends on it, which as can be clearly seen from shots like these, always tends to deny its true nature. Giorgia Meloni would never say if who is a racist person. And to this day, as far as I’m concerned, racism deniers do more damage than those who have the courage to say that people like me make them sc/if. Today’s fascists are not the fascists of yesterday. They’re smarter. They say they’re not racist, but only in favor of respecting the rules and protecting one’s borders. All in defense of the homeland. And there’s nothing wrong with taking a picture with the future you’ll do drown in the Mediterranean. What an obscene shot.”

His reflection had nearly 200 comments, most of them supportive and sharing.