(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 30 – “Enough stereotypes, let’s go further”. The president of Cosenza, Eugenio Guarascio, intervenes on the case of the “racist phrase” addressed by the journalist of a Vicenza station to a small Calabrian fan. “I decided to invite for a week – says Guarascio -, and obviously at my expense, the journalist who during the sports broadcast ‘Terzo Tempo Diretta Biancorossa’ of the Tva broadcaster uttered a clearly racist sentence towards a small fan del Cosenza interviewed after the Cosenza-Vicenza match “.
“I think the time has come not to pass over in silence or under the blanket of the thousand declarations of condemnation that leave the time that find public releases that denote and exude a misguided culture – continues Guarascio -. What happened is in fact evidently the result of a cultural prejudice towards the people of the South, of unbearable stereotypes against which we fight every day.
We are trying like Cosenza to give an image of our land far from that represented in certain areas, the result of a lack of knowledge of our territory. It is through football that ours contributes with social commitment and respect for the rules to subvert certain pre-established schemes. But I realize that we need to go further: the invitation to the journalist from Vicenza has this purpose. Not only obviously that of showing and knowing our beauties but our life, our culture, our being beyond and beyond commonplaces “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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