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Madonna booed in Bucharest for defending Gypsies
Yahoo ^ | 08/27/09

Posted on 08/27/2009 12:47:54 PM PDT by Borges

BUCHAREST, Romania - At first, fans politely applauded the Roma performers sharing a stage with Madonna. Then the pop star condemned widespread discrimination against Roma, or Gypsies — and the cheers gave way to jeers.

The sharp mood change that swept the crowd of 60,000, who had packed a park for Wednesday night's concert, underscores how prejudice against Gypsies remains deeply entrenched across Eastern Europe.

Despite long-standing efforts to stamp out rampant bias, human rights advocates say Roma probably suffer more humiliation and endure more discrimination than any other people group on the continent.

Sometimes, it can be deadly: In neighboring Hungary, six Roma have been killed and several wounded in a recent series of apparently racially motivated attacks targeting small countryside villages predominantly settled by Gypsies.

"There is generally widespread resentment against Gypsies in Eastern Europe. They have historically been the underdog," Radu Motoc, an official with the Soros Foundation Romania, said Thursday.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: booed; gypsies; gypsy; hungary; roma; travelerping; travelers; travellerping; travellers
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To: libstripper
Just visit Rome in the early summer some time. The gypsies are a plague, especially on public transit. They train all their children to be skilled pickpockets. You can spot the little vermin because each carries a towel over its arm, the better to hide its other hand while picking your pocket. The alleged “bias” against them is just as reasonable as a “bias” against flea infested plague rats.

Bingo. Same experience. And I have never been around any that wern't crooks. And that include a business frequented by these little basta**s.

101 posted on 08/27/2009 3:07:10 PM PDT by CT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slx8CCjoL4E&feature=related)
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To: MarMema
Don't give to them, don't do business with them. Let them live their lives and sucker somebody else.

Never could quite understand a group of people who live seemingly marginal lives, yet have EXTRAVAGANT funerals with Rolls Royce limos and all-but-gold coffins. There is a large cemetery in Linden, NJ popular with the gypsies, and traffic backs up considerably on Route 1 whenever they have a funeral.

102 posted on 08/27/2009 6:06:24 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: TomOnTheRun; a fool in paradise
The whole "caucasian" thing ANNOYS the hell out of me. Anytime I am called a caucasian I ask the fool in question if I look like I'm from Tblisi. They then continue to look at me with a rather dumbfounded expression.

Its rooted in junk science folks. Lets get rid of "caucasian" and use "white" or "European American" instead.

103 posted on 08/27/2009 6:09:49 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
BS....which one, Caucasoid, Mongoloid or Negroid?

You've go to be sh--ting me. WTF are so many Americans stuck in the 19th century on racial terminology/thinking.

104 posted on 08/27/2009 6:12:48 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Borges

Madonna has become far more annoying than even the gypsies.


105 posted on 08/27/2009 6:39:49 PM PDT by eleni121 (The New Byzantium - resurrect it!)
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To: Borges

No they were actually booing the smell coming from her crotch....


106 posted on 08/27/2009 6:42:39 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: Clemenza
You've go to be sh--ting me. WTF are so many Americans stuck in the 19th century on racial terminology/thinking.

BBBWWWAAHHAAA, you have been P3WnED....

Name another race..........................waiting...................................................................

107 posted on 08/27/2009 8:08:39 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Obama's Blackberry, who's on the other end?)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Ain’t it grand to be a Freeper? YES!


108 posted on 08/27/2009 8:09:50 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Stoat
It was a great, memorable experience, especially because I just felt they knew I was an American and viewed that kind of assertive, appropriate act as something an American would do. Ever since I've had a very warm spot in my heart for the Italian people.
109 posted on 08/28/2009 3:43:05 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Borges

Every individual human being deserves to be judged on the basis of his or her own actions.

I reserve the right to judge groups of people based upon my experiences with each group.

I’m sure that many fine individuals of Gypsy heritage exist. However, my experience with Gypsies as members of a culture is that Gypsies are thieves and parasites. Anyone who has ever been to a train station in Europe knows it’s true.

Remember: facts are facts, whether we like them or not.


110 posted on 08/28/2009 2:46:02 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Borges
A Madonna concert -- gypsies, tramps, and thieves?

-PJ

111 posted on 08/28/2009 2:49:41 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: FoxPro

Cute girl. I’m sure she’s a fine person. There are fine people of every race and culture.

As a culture, Gypsies are parasites. No offense to your girlfriend, whom I’m sure does not partake of that culture — but the truth hurts.

This is not to say that any individual person should be oppressed or persecuted — but spare me that “all cultures are equal” crap. That idea went down the toilet years ago. All cultures are NOT equal. Like white trash culture or black ghetto culture, Gypsy culture is noxious to civilized life.


112 posted on 08/28/2009 2:53:27 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: TomOnTheRun

The reason civilized people don’t call Jews or Italians thieves or social nuisances is because to do so would fly in the face of reality as we all live it. Some Jews and Italians are thieves or social nuisances, but the vast majority aren’t, and there’s nothing in Jewish or Italian culture that is inimical to civilized life. The same cannot be said of Gypsy culture.


113 posted on 08/28/2009 2:56:05 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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