di Pina Piccolo
La prossima volta, il fuoco
The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power,
but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos
and ring down the curtain on the American dream
James Baldwin The fire next time
L’anno scorso di questi tempi, nello scritto Rapsodia in giallo mi trovavo a rievocare lo scrittore afro americano Ralph Ellison che nel suo libro Invisible Man parlava della condizione dei discendenti della tratta degli africani strappati a viva forza dalla loro terra per lavorare nelle piantagioni americane. In quell’occasione facevo l’analogia con quello che succedeva qui in Italia ai lavoratori migranti che si erano ribellati a Rosarno. Quest’anno, grazie ai cambiamenti intercorsi nella international situation acuity of racism and the institutional responses but I am remembering the work of a great African American writer, James Baldwin, in 1963, wrote a book titled successful The Fire Next Time (Next time , fire) whose title was inspired to sing spirituals black " Mary Do not You Weep " which contained the verse, "God Gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water the fire next time. " (God gave Noah the sign, not more water, fire next time). .
Quel libro fu molto importante per delineare alcune questioni riguardanti le relazioni tra bianchi e neri negli Stati Uniti, il ruolo delle religioni sia islamica che cristiana. Parte del libro aveva la forma di una lettera scritta al nipote quattordicenne. Io sono convinta che chi sinceramente desidera un cambiamento radicale, un nuovo ordine mondiale e personale dovrebbe forse cominciare a scrivere simili lettere, guardarsi attorno, riflettere e poi agire. Cerchiamo di ritrovare coraggio e sincerità scegliendo i giovani come nostri interlocutori, non per cadere nella solita retorica ma anche perché da loro saremo giudicati. Forse questo esercizio potrebbe anche aiutarci ad unirci ai grandi movimenti che stanno mettendo in crisis in the world order without waiting for the diktat of parties, celebrities, without being there to await the evolution of events with our hands, fearing that shake the current balance may lead to a situation worse, as many are doing in this time, etc..
Thinking about the fires that we have witnessed in recent weeks, driven also by the sorrow and shame (a healthy psychological reaction that seems to have gone into disuse in Italy) I tried to write this letter, which will not certainly the depth and impact of the work of Baldwin, but I hope it will help stimulate debate and action.
Letter to the youth slain in February
Dear Nourredine,
now rest in peace after three days of agony
Dear Raul, Fernando Sebastian, Patrick,
that you died quickly, all four embraced on the mattress
(the cry that could not take it to emerge from Raul and Fernando, deaf children, shouted from older brothers that the voice we had)
all five guys Noureddine (27 years, father of a 2) and children (3 Raul, Fernando 5, Sebastian 8, Patrizia 10 years) of the fires of February ,
I write a red letter of shame for not doing enough because this country does not reach levels that touched abomination. I think that the omissions, the distractions and small cowardice of my generation have contributed to your stake. It may not have the gas or the match, but they have certainly provided material for combustion.
In this letter I will not try to console speaking of squares inflamed North Africa and the Middle East, perhaps now relieved of the body can go through and enjoy that vital energy that goes out from us for some decades. Quell'esilarante you travel you've earned it, we, who still breathe in Italy, we have to deal with a country of dead-alive, hoping that perhaps a second Risorgimento heralded by a white horse on the stage of Sanremo, conducted by a Garibaldi ridanciano less solemn and more. A future that you decide on television, not in the streets. With slicked Faccioni Maroni and Fazio .... In the living rooms of news design hyper ... Undoubtedly, Italians as a post-modern people have to take other routes, not those of the squares. Maybe we are a great experiment that demonstrates how you can ensure the immobility of the people manipulating the media. Perhaps we should not even dare to imagine a possible reconstitution of the civil society concept ... too old ... everything must be decided by benches of power, both nationally and internationally (after all we are or are not the American aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean? As we have been underlined by the latest Wikileaks).
Because you died and rigor of science with the physical eye the world of the living have lo potete vedere, vi descrivo una parte del Paese delle Meraviglie, nel quale ignoravate forse di essere, e per cui forse dal vostro rogo non sono nate splendide ribellioni bensì sciatti scaricabarile, scritte inneggianti al nazismo, qualche fiaccolata di “quattro poveri illusi” che credono ancora nella solidarietà, e qualche colletta dai giornali. Forse credevi Nourredine di emulare Mohammed Bouazizi, che la tua disperazione qualche vigile avrebbe cercato di fermarla, che col tuo gesto avresti acceso le coscienze? Anche tu giovane ambulante, lui laureato con le sue quattro mele sequestrate dalla polizia corrotta, tu con il tuo carretto, ancora una volta indugiavi in una strada di Palermo, quella degli antichi splendori Arabs and Germans, near the university. Fined because they stood too long trying to keep up with the money earned from the sale of four gadgets humble wife, son and six brothers. A small army that would one day be reunited with you in this land of false hope. In this fairy Morgana where happiness that always eludes you yearn to hand?
And you children, believed that few tears would have given to your parents? A hug, the recognition of a loss so terrible? A Word to compel spending detestable human beings to live in conditions where a fire was not God Almighty's punishment of some solemn but the result of a trivial match? No, in a country full of psychologists mobilized to the smallest hint of trauma native to your parents no understanding, only threats of processes, the blackmail to take away the remaining children, the shame of being judged negligent parents. 'That only those who owned the house for ten generations can aspire to have children ... For others, swastikas ...
is not easy to explain why the human response that you might not expect that you've received a few. It 'difficult, in this mosaic of reasons There are many pieces, but I'll be your eyes and you see the area where I live, and perhaps understand a little bit. Of course we do not forgive, but perhaps some might find the explanation.
After learning of your death, Nourredine, today I went out on my way to the square of the quiet little town where I live, the rosy health that was once widespread now much less. Well-being that usually eludes migrants like you. At this time, the Rose would be able to blend in with the green of the League. Apparently they stay away, and look askance at the Pd on the porch of the Palace of the beam and the League on the porch del comune, ma si tratta solo di settimane… Il rosso e il verde della fusione che si prospetta (secondo il machiavellismo da strapazzo di Bersani, efficace risposta all’attuale delirio istituzionale) risulteranno in un colore nauseante, forse ancora più nauseabondo dell’ipocrisia separata di entrambi i partiti.
In questo tour de force il primo monumento che si incontra è la farmacia, antica, di fine settecento, che ancora conserva i vasi originali che contenevano le erbe officinali e i minerali, ed è una delle mete dei pochi turisti che capitano da queste parti. Sotto il portico della farmacia ci sono 4 musicisti tzigani che suonano e hanno messo una giacca per terra a mo’ di cappello per raccogliere qualche soldino dai passanti distratti che vanno o ritornano dal mercato. Non hanno molto successo, ma c’è una sorta di dinamismo che li circonda, un’elettricità che trovo assente nei capannelli di imolesi che si fermano a chiacchierare sotto l’orologio, tradizionale luogo d’incontro nella loro beneamata isola pedonale. Hanno l’occhio vivo dell’ outsider, che vede oltre la cortina fumogena dei rapporti che sembrano naturali ed eterni solo perché si svolgono con cadenza quotidiana. Dopo aver sorpassato i musicisti, a qualche passo di distanza ci si imbatte nel Palazzo del Beam, architectural glory of 1936 with relief that glorifies the exploits colonial. In this building, which clashes horribly with the old buildings with facades rebuilt in the eighteenth century that surround it, there is a life-size human silhouette that Bersani calls to roll up their sleeves. I strongly suspect that this poster is now ubiquitous in these parts is the result of some expert in public relations / communication that has taken literally the analysis of the linguist / political consultant George Lakoff U.S. during the last two election campaigns in the U.S. debating the concept "framing" and how it was necessary to move the frame than the stern father, represented by punisher Bush a quello di padre amorevole ma fermo, che, manco a dirlo, nel contesto italiano si trasforma in un Bersani seduto che si rimbocca le maniche ed esorta i figli a fare altrettanto… Sempre secondo questo sguardo abbacinato dalle magnifiche sorti e progressive, il “cambiamento” che tale strategia vincente ha inaugurato negli Stati Uniti sarà certamente emulato in Italia… Certo che a noi non devono venire gli americani ad insegnarlo, l’abbiamo nel sangue la nostra tradizione di gattopardi…
Proseguendo di altri quindici passi, eccoci al gazebo della Lega, con la loro inconfondibile foglia, frutto di novella mitologia. Cinque o se robusti native boys who look with the confident look of one who is finally making in hostile territory. Opposite, on the porch facing Liberia are stopped by a guy named George, which I always take the paper towels ... These subtleties of Italian political parties and he does not understand the problem does not even arise. I ask him about the political situation in his country, is a bit 'surprised, that capacity is not yet a quiet woman of my age may be interested in politics, but he assures me that in a few months in Liberia, there will be parliamentary elections for the moment ... his country has been plagued by unrest in North Africa ... As we speak I pass by and say hello to me Jessica, African-American girl, married to an ex-Yugoslav grown in our region, who met in Paris where they both were concerned with fashion ... it's a bit 'surprised that I am speaking in English with one of those guys hawkers selling African handkerchiefs, but for its Yugoslav-Italian-African-American girls it seems normal ... At this point later in the new supermarket to get some food and queued in front of me, I see the signature Louis Vouitton on the bag of my own age, very stretched , as used here, which includes water.
I know, these scenes might not have seen them in Palermo or in the suburbs of Rome and this is certainly not explains a lot, but I said is only one piece, and if we analyze all the pieces that make up Italy, who knows a shred of image of the country in which we live we can not train, outside of maybe a slow ideological po'offuscate new times. Who knows, maybe a bit 'of indignation we are not able to retrieve it, zealous devotees of rationality and fair play . delegation to rid the scourge of politicians, priests, celebrities and journalists instead of a catharsis television anchor who knows that we can not take the first step to recover a little of the dignity with which you are reclaiming the nostri cugini del mediterraneo del Sud.
Questo è il minimo che dobbiamo a voi ragazzi, arsi vivi, perché le vostre ceneri non rimangano sterili.
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