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From the NY Times:

ROME — More than a thousand African workers were put aboard buses and trains in the southern Italian region of Calabria over the weekend and shipped out to immigrant detention centers, following some of the country’s worst riots in years.

The clashes began Thursday night in Rosarno, a working-class city amid citrus groves in Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot, after a legal immigrant from Togo was lightly wounded in a pellet-gun attack in a nearby city. It is not clear who pulled the trigger — the authorities said they were investigating whether organized crime had provoked the riots — but the consequences were severe.

Blaming racism for the attack, dozens of immigrants burned cars and smashed shop windows in Rosarno in two days of riots, throwing rocks at local residents and fighting with the police. More than 50 immigrants and police officers were wounded, none seriously, and 10 immigrants and locals were arrested before the authorities began sending the immigrants to detention centers elsewhere in southern Italy on Saturday.

The images emerging from Calabria over the weekend — of torched cars and angry African immigrants hurling rocks — were the most vivid example of the growing racial tensions in Italy, which have been exacerbated by an economic crisis whose depth has only recently been acknowledged in the national dialogue. Both the official and underground economies increasingly rely on immigrants, while Italy remains torn between acceptance and xenophobia.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Quietme77/ Quietme77

    As far as I am concerned Italian, Spanish, Russian, and most of East Europe are really, really racist, and they are supported by their government in their hate of dark skinned people I should say they even encourage it. Just remembered a young successful Senegalese soccer player who were killed in Moscow 7 years ago because he had a white girl friend. Many blacks are refer to as monkeys. What are you going to do? Ignorance is hard to fight. But we shouldn’t stop.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WestsideCartelAtl85/ WestsideCartelAtl85

    I have an African friend who lived in Italy for few years as a child. He said it was racist as h/ell over there. There were hardly no services to the Black community and it made the American hood’s over here look high class. So I’m not suprised at all. But the media keeps portraying Europe as liberal and ahead in race relations than the U.S.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/D_Sean/ D_Sean

    I cant stand when Black ppl get it twisted, by thinking that Italians is black and they like us. DATS NOT TRUE. They’re only 2% Black, because the Moors raped them along time ago. They hate niggaz. These are the same ppl who learned from the Egyptians and then robbed them naked. Da same people who persecuted the Original Jews (which were black)Learn ya history

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    my question is when are we in this land going to rise up???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SenorCafeDa2nd/ SenorCafeDa2nd

    Africans kill each other for ethnic and religious differences on continental Africa like it aint nothing.

    And look at black on black murder here in the US

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    @senor

    oooooooooo please not another unchecked facts.its really getting ridiculous how a bad we see our own people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/browneye_sista/ browneye_sista

    Look at how quick some of us are to call the Africans savages but I guess when the U.S. and Europe intentionally create poverty then that civilized????

    When we murder 100′s of thousands of people around the world…I guess thats more civilized than Africans fighting racism or fighting IN AFRICA to get rid of tyranny…

    that was put there by us to begin with.

    I really wish people would check their own nations record before they open their mouths to criticize another…its a probability that YOU are part of the problem.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    RISE UP YOU MIGHTY NATION!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Fly098/ Fly098

    @SeniorCafe… Man listen. Whites kill each other too. So that logic can be used for them as well. I can’t stand you Black Anglo-Saxons that come on here and say stupid stuff and use stupid indirect defenses of Europeans when Europeans are doing stuff like this to people of ethnicity. STOP BEING A NONKY!!! Family may fight against family but they have to stick together when others attack them. Like I said, white folks fight against each other but you better believe that if you or I come against them, they’ll group together and fight us no matter how wrong they are. They do that here in the States and even in corporate America. They take up for their own. But for you to come and defend them using the fact that blacks fight each other is a statement made only by a NONKY! If the shoe fits, wear it! I see you’re doing a great job of it. Tired of you Black Anglos

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jeff_Poet/ Jeff_Poet

    HOW QUICK PEOPLE FORGET! WHITE PEOPLE INVADED AFRICA AND ENSLAVED BLACKS FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. HOWEVER, I WOULD CAUTION BLACKS TO LIMIT THEIR FIERCE CONDEMNATION OF THE ITALIANS AS MANY BLACK AMERICANS HATE MEXICANS AND ARGUE RELENTLESSLY FOR THEIR DEPORTATION.

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