iStock(ROME, Italy) — An effort to promote anti-racism in Italian professional soccer created an uproar of its own with a questionable poster design.
Serie A, Italy’s top soccer league, commissioned posters designed by artist Simone Fugazzotto to feature in an anti-racism campaign. The “No-to-Racism” posters he drew featured images of monkeys’ faces and were displayed at the Serie A headquarters in Milan Monday at a presentation.
Rather than inspire an end to racism in the stadium, many said the posters brought to mind the use of monkeys as racist slurs. In Italy and across Europe at soccer matches, bananas have been
