アンドレア・ボチェッリさんのインスタグラム写真 - (アンドレア・ボチェッリInstagram)「. My little girl behind those bars: of course, this was so we could reflect together, so that she could learn about the history and strive to ensure that such events would never happen again in the future. However, that moment stirred very strong emotions in me.... As well as the desire to set certain considerations down in black and white. Racism is the perfect representation of the obtuseness of evil, of the “fearsome word-and-thought-defying banality of evil”, to say it in the words of Hannah Arendt. A crime, a tragic and grotesque misunderstanding built on variations in pigmentation, a clamorous scientific falsehood. In this wonderful country that is hosting us, a few hours from the Christian holiday that celebrates the Resurrection, we can feel the memory of the recent past, made up of barriers and oppression. At the same time, we can feel the regenerating lesson of the unarmed and powerful words (democracy, respect and reconciliation) which were able to transform that past, thus neutralizing one of the biggest wounds and disgraces of the 20th century. In the fresh air of South Africa, we can feel the strength of goodness in the living testimony of a wonderful dreamer who embodied those words, turning them into pick locks, into open windows, into a dove of peace. In his country, Nelson Mandela is a presence that is even more alive and palpable. He is a companion on the road, a brother, the inspiration behind that love revolution that gave a peaceful present and future to a great diverse community. Our hope (and our personal commitment) is that each person of goodwill will take on a fragment of the weight of those explosive words, according to their own strengths, grasping “Madiba’s” lesson and the core values he taught by way of example, in the heroic beauty and the poetry of his life. This is a purpose that we strongly embrace, a project that warms us and fills us with enthusiasm: to live poetically, always. And here is an example of the strength and the wisdom of words. “Poetry” comes from the ancient Greek poiein and it is no coincidence that it means to make, to create, to generate. Andrea Bocelli」4月20日 22時26分