Genoa's municipal culture chief has
sparked a political and social-media row by slamming the next
James Bond, black British actress Lashana Lynch, in the upcoming
'No Time To Die'.
"James Bond will be a woman and black...leftists are demolishing
all the cultural foundations of our civilisation," tweeted
Maurizio Gregorini, cultural manager for Genoa city council.
He also cited a race row sparked by casting black actress Jodie
Turner-Smith as Tudor queen Anne Boleyn in a new period drama on
Britain's Channel Five.
"They've made Anne Boleyn mulatto" (she was blonde and blue
eyed)," said Gregorini in the same tweet.
Gregorini is a film and stage director and writer who has been
Genoa's cultural manager since 2018.
He recently sparked another storm by tweeting "they want all our
kids to be gay". The tweet was later cancelled.
Democratic Party councillor Alessandro Terrile reacted to the
latest tweet by saying "the cultural policy of our city has
reached a new, shameful low".
Gregorini was unrepentant, cancelling the latest tweet but
saying "blacks don't need these jokes, which in the long run
harm them, they need respect".
And he criticised the centre-left government in another new
tweet saying "how can a government be judged by history, one
which after imposing the cloisters for an epidemic on its own
Christian citizens, then opened up its borders to hundreds of
thousands of Islamic illegal immigrants, often infected?"
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