Italy talks of "niggers"

Last Thursday several riots broke out between African harvest workers, local residents and the police in the southern Italian city of Rosarno. The unrest has introduced the word "nigger" into everyday language in Italy, the daily La Repubblica comments: "The word was shouted out by patrolling night avengers and recorded in all the reports. ... A word that changes the world and simplifies it, that turns relations between human beings into a racial war and a conflict between skin colours in which the black die and the white triumph. ... From one day to the next the world of Italians became a black-and-white world. ... The word 'nigger', which has now spread all over Italy thanks to the events in Rosarno, has consequences that despite many differences can basically be compared with those that the race laws of 1938 and the introduction of the word 'Jew' into everyday language brought about." 

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