Vol. 23 No. 243 (2018)

No immigrant is a criminal, especially if we assume that the history of humanity is the history of the journeys of human groups seeking for better lands, gradually occupying all the planet's geography and beyond. But still some people -less and less, luckily- continue to negatively value people for their most visible characteristics: their skin color, physical appearance and gender.

But that valuation is due to convenience, by social, cultural and political factors. And this occurs mainly in those regions where those who consider themselves more "civilized", those who for centuries faced colonization processes that were always based on ideas of superiority, dominate. It was not about invading, but collaborating; It was not preying, it was free trading. It was not submitting, but legitimately evangelizing. Mario Balotelli, son of Ghanaian immigrants, born in Italy and player of the national team azzurro said it very clearly: Racism flourishes from ignorance.

Imagine for a moment that the French team, recent champion du monde, had been disqualified in the first matches. Surely the media criticism would not have been for their game but for having built the national team with many Africans. The same media that in the middle of the triumph, now that benefits them, celebrate the multicolored country.

Tulio Guterman , Manager - August 2018