The last thing we want to do is adhere to the anti-Diop rhetoric into which the right that believes in Italianness is falling (and also the left that believes in merit, in truth). We really like Mia Diop, the 23-year-old student of Senegalese origins who in one day went from institute representative to vice-president of the Tuscany region. Pacifist, environmentalist, iron Murgian, PD card, zero preferences, no political experience, a more solid CV than Schlein as Giani’s deputy is perfect. They will support her with a guardian appointed by the Party who will tell her what to do and everything will be fine. However, regional council by regional council, in the end we preferred Nicole Minetti.
But in short, Diop graffiti, Generation Z and pro Pal braids is the political figure of the moment, to express the difficulty of the political moment. And for this reason yesterday we devoured his interview on Repubblica. The one in which he says that “there is another Italy” (then we’ll see if better or worse), that the prime minister “must turn up the volume” (but how much damage has Mamdani already done?) and that he doesn’t understand those who are afraid of her.
The fact is that no one is afraid of you, my dear Mia. If anything, we are afraid of those who instrumentally chose you. We wish you a less tarnished political path than Aboubakar Soumahoro.
For the rest, a piece of advice: rather than the malice of certain exponents of the right annoyed by your skin, worry about the envy of certain exponents of the left overtaken by your appointment. Envy is more dangerous than racism.