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". Read More
