Message 61/79
Date: 06-Nov-02 @ 09:57 PM -
RE: Human Rights Watch
Ayup - the town where I reside, Winchester, MA, has it's own war memorial. They're fair proud of it too.
In the US, there's gypsy folk like the travellers, which oft get a bad rap even from other gypsies. Point I was trying to make, and maybe I did in a round about way, is even the "lowest common denominator" in our society (whoever they may be) tends to try and jack up where they belong in the social strata... i.e., I'm gypsy, but I'm Rom, not just any old gypsy....
Like k said about the Calloway guy, he's a "true gypsy." An' I'm not railin' at you k, methinks you know where I'm comin from, but y'all see how easy it is to slide into the racial, ethnic, class thing... even without trying?
Dunna get me wrong, I believe in being proud of your own heritage, just not at the expense of others being "put in their proper places."
Pesa