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Italian Paper Under Fire for Supposed 'Racist' Imagery of VP Harris

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(The Guardian) The Italian rightwing newspaper Il Tempo has come under fire for racism after featuring an image on its front page of Kamala Harris wearing a Native American feathered headdress alongside the headline: “The challenge against Donald, hunt for the white man.”

The headline was in reference to Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, and intended to depict Harris as picking a white man to try and win over support from Donald Trump voters.

The front page was slammed as racist by critics, who also pointed out that Harris is not of Native American origin.

Francesco Strazzari, a professor of international relations at Sant’Anna University in Pisa, wrote on X: “How racial tropes work: ignorance runs so deep that Italy’s rightwing newspaper Il Tempo ignores that that Kamala Harris’ mother was from Madras, India,” and not Native American.


Tommaso Cerno, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, defended the front page, saying the headdress was chosen as a “symbol par excellence of all America’s minorities.” He accused Italy’s left of incorrectly accusing him of confusing Harris’ ethnicity. “Total idiocy!” he said in a video posted on X.
 
I am sorry, but if he thinks confusion about her ethnic identity is the biggest problem with that, he is likely stupid or being deliberately naive.
 
he is likely stupid or being deliberately naive
I'm thinking the latter 'cause even the densest person would know Kamala Harris isn't Native American Indian....
 
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