VERONA ARENA OF THE 16/03/2018
TRADITIONALIST AGAINST SCHOOL <<BLACKS AND AFRICAN RITES IN THE CLASSROOMS>>
Of Maria Vittoria Adami e Luigi Grimaldi
African masks, tribal rites, school desks and a pinch of Catholic fundamentalism. An explosive mix triggered at the Vittorio Locchi elementary school in Dossobuono where Gianni Toffali, fifty-year-old employee at the Peschiera police school, she did not like the lesson on African traditions and culture given to her daughter and the three third and fifth grade classes. Four hours, in two lessons, and final visit, at the end of the month, at the African Museum in Verona, per 6 euros per child, is the project organized at school by the Mantuan cooperative Olinda di Medole, which deals with the reception of migrants. Some Nigerian boys, accompanied by operators, they taught the children tribal traditions and rites. They had the masks worn in African dances designed, also guiding them in some steps to the musical rhythm. Open up heaven. Toffali, author of several blogs against «secularist modernity, left, anticlerical and gayphile" and of contributions on websites of the hyper Catholics of Agere contra or Christus rex, graduated from the school of theology and signatory of petitions such as the one to have Bergoglio resign, defined as a "false prophet Pope" guilty of "relativism and doctrinal errors" such as the "discourse on homosexuality", asked the head teacher Vito Solieri to account. «They had the masks designed that Africans use to invoke the spirits. It's indoctrination", attack. «It is a project approved at the beginning of the year by the school council which is also made up of parents. African culture is explained, in this case refugees, also by virtue of the article 9 ministerial on interculture", Solieri replies: «The African one is the least known and the furthest from our culture», concludes the principal, «the boys, after the introduction of the teachers, they explained that certain rites exist in their tradition. As happens in religion lessons where other forms of worship are explained". «The blacks entered the class accompanied by kids probably from social centers because they had dreadlocks and earrings», continues, Instead, Toffali. «They informed us that it involved games and a trip to the museum, not that they would have talked about magical practices and initiation into spiritualism. The Blue Whale is also a game. Nigerians push their women into prostitution by blackmailing them with voodoo practices. Children are too young to talk to them about spiritualism, then they ask you why we don't contact the deceased grandfather. How do you explain that it's not possible?». The project will end with a visit to the African Museum in Verona, born in 1938 as a showcase of the activities of the Comboni missionaries in Africa. Here the children will participate in two "fearsome" workshops: «Walking with australopithecines», to retrace prehistory starting from the discovery of Lucy, and «Making toys from waste materials». At the museum there are also workshops where African masks linked to spirituality are drawn in animist contexts. «But this has never clashed with other religious sensitivities», they let the structure know. But Toffali's revolt goes beyond educational boundaries: «This is a project on asylum seekers, as defined in the school prospectus. At the beginning there was no mention of blacks entering classes with people from the social centers. I would have left my daughter at home". The problem is that "the blacks have entered"? «That they entered and that it was done an indoctrination operation», he replies. «Teachers and managers are indoctrinated. If a manager does not agree on the applicants, does not take this initiative. I'm not interested in a project on asylum seekers, I am against initiatives that glorify subcultures", he concludes at the end of the exposition of his thoughts.
Source: http://www.larena.it/territori/villafranchese/villafranca/tradizionalista-contro-la-scuola-neri-e-riti-africani-nelle-classi-