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06/12/2009: "Unlikely champion of Italy's anti-immigration party is black and half-American"

A half-American black woman has become an unlikely star of Italy's Northern League, the populist anti-immigrant party which doubled its vote in this week's elections for the European Parliament.

Sandy Cane is being hailed as "Italy's Obama" â€" she has a mixed race heritage and at 47 is even the same age as the US president. But her politics are firmly to the Right.

She insists there is no contradiction between being black and a champion of the Northern League. "People think the League is racist but now it is much stronger and more mature than it once was. It is not racist to be against illegal immigration.

[ What on Earth?! Italy's Obama? My head hurts... ]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5496550/Unlikely-champion-of-Italys-anti-immigration-party-is-black-and-half-American.html

Replies: 2 Comments

on Saturday, June 13th, nationalist said

they may as well be, barcroft, and with their low birth rate it looks like Italians are finished.
They don't care about ethnicity, only money. (Why do people think the former is evil and the latter is just fine as a political motivation?)

on Friday, June 12th, barcroft said

I thought most Italians, at least below Rome, are 1/2 black!