I'm so sorry to deny you girl, but I was born and raised in Italy and I can say that italians are not all racist but most of them are. I honestly think you are very fortunate that nothing happened to you YET.
My childhood was a nightmare, I was the only black girl in my primary school and college and God knows how many times I've been called "sporca negra" which is the italian for "dirty/ugly nigger" , my females "friends" were so mean to me, I suffered so much for that but I also had lovely people who loved me fortunately. All of the people where I raised start to treat me differently when they realized I was a singer and actress and when my carrier start to upgrade. Not all of them, but most of them did that when they start listening to my songs on the radio and watch me on tv, or tv news or read me on the newspaper like Vanity Fair and bla bla ... realizing I was kinda "famous", they start to treat me equally and say to other people we grow up together.
I grow up near Fano, and there through the years I've been followed so many times at stores just because I'm black , even in Milan and other countries in Italy I can say that because I traveled a lot because of my job. Last year there was a black female politician called Cecile Kyenge which was insulted and treated like an animal, they called her nigger more than once, they also throw bananas on her head at the italian parliament, It's ridiculous. They're not racist until you don't steal their work and you become a dangerous rival, until you don't date or you want to marry their son or daughter.
Many years ago my younger brother was dating an italian girl, they were in love but they had to break up because her parents were racist and they did anything possible to let their story to end, fortunately this didn't happened to you and this doesn't happen so frequently like 90's but it still happens, we have an italian black writer which has wrote a book about his relationship with her ex-girlfriend and how it ended because of the racism of her parents, his name is Antonio Dikele DiStefano, go and check him he's amazing. And how many times I've been told:
- You're so pretty to be a black girl
- You smell so good to be a black girl
They think they're giving you compliments instead of thinking they're actually insulting you. During summer 2013 I was inside a makeup store, I'm not gonna mention the name of the brand but this is what happened: The woman who was working there realized that many producta of the new collection were missing and the only person who decided to check was me and nobody else in the store. I was totally shocked about it, and all the people in the store start watching what was happening, I was so embarrassed. I had to open my bag and let everybody watch my personal things, then when she made sure I didn't steal anything she run away without apologize to me. So this is what I did, I wrote the story on my social networks and so many people red it, I've been contacted by the press all over Italy so my story star to become too popular, that's why the company decided to apologized to me through social networks and they fired the woman, also some days after the boss of the company came personally to the store where this happened to apologize to me telling me that they would have done the same to any person in Italy. Do you believe that? I honestly don't !
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