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Black History Month: Why always me?
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When you hear the phrase, “Why Always Me?”, there’s only one person that comes to mind: Mario Balotelli. A dynamic talent, his sentiments were routinely misunderstood and it has clouded people’s thoughts of him throughout his career. However, there’s no mistaking that Balotelli has been a talent the likes of which this world really hasn’t seen in quite a long time.
He was born Mario Barwuah in Sicily to immigrants from Ghana. When he was three, his parents placed him in foster care due to their inability to pay for his health care. The family that took him in was the Balotelli family, a Jewish family from Brescia, Italy. Mario eventually adopted Balotelli as his surname once his foster family decided to permanently foster him and has gone by that throughout his life to honor the family that took him in.