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So I apologize too, as a white person, as a European, as an Italian, as a Sicilian, as a person who was raised Catholic: I apologize for the Crusades, the Inquisition, for he Index of Forbidden Books, for the offerings of the believers going to Monsignors and not in charity. I apologize for Mussolini, I apologize for Toto Riina, for the people who, for years, have evaded taxes here in Italy. I apologize for burning Giordano Bruno at the stake. I apologize for that time when Berlusconi said that Obama had a nice tan, for the prostitution rings of underage girls, for apartments politicians bought with the money of other Italians. I apologize for starting the war alongside Hitler, and I apologize for the death of those who opposed and those who still oppose the Mafia. I apologize for the priests that touch children and for indulgences and the centuries of ignorance the clergy has used against ordinary people. I am white and European, so I apologize for Colonialism and the number of deaths the Spanish, the Portuguese, the British, and, years later, the Italians, caused, because of “white supremacy,” because the color of my skin was enough to treat other human beings worse than animals. Because it is still enough to discriminate. I apologize for governments that align with Israel, leaving (Muslim) Palestinian children to die in Gaza. I was baptized, I have all the sacraments, so I apologize for all the deaths - and for those victims still alive, the victims of sexual abuse who will be scarred for life - that the Catholic Church has caused in the course of centuries, and the discrimination that all those who are not cisgender and heterosexual must endure every day - for every father who kicked his son out of the house, cutting all ties, and for those that have done worse - because some people like to remember only some lines of Leviticus. I’m Sicilian, so I apologize for the Mafia, for our corruption, for the money that ended up God knows where, who knows to whom. I’m Italian, so I apologize for for every person who would let innocents die at sea, for every person who wants to ‘close the borders’, because this means that, if they could, they would become murderers, too. I apologize for everything. Because if every Muslim must apologize for the blood others have spilled, then I apologize also for every person who died, who has been discriminated against, insulted, attacked, killed by Europeans, white people, Italians, Sicilians, and Catholics. Even if none of it is my fault. Even though I do not agree. Even though none of this was done in my name. The difference is, I am white, European, Italian, Sicilian, Catholic, so nobody is asking me to apologise.

THANK YOU.

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