The mother of the singer Elodie Patrizi responds to the volleyball player Paola Egonu who recently called Italy a racist country.
The Azzurra champion has declared that she would never want to raise her eventual child in Italy so as not to make him suffer the racism of which she was the victim herself.
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To the statements of Paola Egonu – one of the co-hosts of the Sanremo Festival – replied Claudia Marthe, mother of the singer Elodie. “I could not call it a country that discriminates on the basis of race. There are idiots, here and elsewhere. They are intolerable, here or elsewhere. So? Don’t we have children anymore for fear of fools?” – le words of Claudia Marthe who, a Creole, arrived in Italy at a very young age in the early 1980s, and later became pregnant by the singer. The woman said: “I am disoriented by the words of the volleyball player Paola Egonu that I don’t want to judge at all, but I would like to understand”. The Italian volleyball champion, in fact, a few days ago she let herself go to strong statements going so far as to say that would never want a son with black skin and that in terms of racism Italy has remained unchanged at thirty years ago.
Salvini also responds to Paola Egonu
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As for your personal experience, Elodie’s mother she explains that she has taught her children to recognize ignorance and to use self-irony to debunk it. The singer’s mother hopes that Egonu, co-host of the third evening of the event, and Elodie have the opportunity to talk to each other about this theme: “I hope they compare, they talk to each other because Elodie has also lived negative experiences, we have all suffered, but we must overcome. I would like to tell this beautiful girl that she must love herself more: she is splendid, established, she is Italian and she does not need to be recognized as such, she is. You can’t please everyone, those who don’t accept the differences between people are a minority”. And, in the meantime, the Minister of Transport and leader of the League also expressed his opinion on the presence of Paola Egonu in Sanremo Matthew Salvini. Salvini, very frankly, declared that the only thing he hopes is that the volleyball player does not focus all her monologues on racism. The Deputy Prime Minister declared: “Paola Egonu is a great athlete, I hope she doesn’t come to Sanremo to make a tirade about racist Italy. Italy is a generous country, which welcomes and extends a hand”.
