Among the hundreds of considerations expressed after the sentence that acquitted the footballer due to insufficient evidence Unripe from the accusation of having offended his colleague with a racist phrase John Jesusone struck me: came from the minister of sport, Andrea Abodi. He hoped that «Acerbi is at peace with his conscience». It must be a thought that crosses his mind often. For example: when she attends government meetings she looks around and hopes that her Tourism colleague is “at peace with her conscience”. Law of the deputy who claims not to have fired despite the ballistics report stating the opposite and hopes that you are “at peace with his conscience”.
Naples, players on their knees to say no to racism: the gesture before the match with Atalanta
by Pasquale Tina 30 March 2024
If Abodi’s hope is that the acquitted player is innocent, the assumption is contradictory. Innocents sleep worse at night than others. Precisely because they are pure, they are tormented by the fear of having offended someone without realizing it. Some of them, to avoid it, even invented “political correctness” and are now treated as if they had created the coronavirus in a laboratory. On the contrary, the culprits who got away with it, because they were acquitted or even never investigated, having overcome an initial shock, no more than a crease on the pillow, sleep very well.
All for Juan Jesus, the Napoli advert against racism
by Pasquale Tina 30 March 2024
The protagonist of a masterpiece by Woody AllenCrimes and Misdemeanors, after having had his lover killed and remaining unpunished, he was amazed at how peacefully he had resumed his life. Maradona he transformed a handball into a divine intervention and was praised. Every time that Saele makers falls to the ground, hit or not, and Thiago Motta he scolds him, he looks at him and doesn’t understand. When a footballer, in the time before the VAR, missed a penalty on purpose because he knew he hadn’t provoked it, he made the news like the man who bites the dog, but he aroused more amazement or disapproval than admiration. To have peace with your conscience sometimes you have to be at war with the rest of the world. And lose it.
However, not everyone who lies does so to save themselves. More rarely, to save. In his autobiography Luciano De Crescenzo he said that his mother attended a performance by Ella Fitzgerald on public television, criticizing her and finally ruling: “Ni*kers should sing for ni*nis.” She then rang the phone and replied to the interviewer of the then existing opinion service saying that she liked the singer very much. To her son, who was perplexed by her, she explained: «If I said that I didn’t like her, she was fired and that’s not good: chella is already so black». Who knows if he would deny it today.
