Elliott Eisenberg Has Europe Ever Recovered From Hitlerism? Fair-skinned children in Romani families have recently been taken into temporary care by authorities in Greek and Ireland and have been threatened with such removal by members of the public in Serbia. The mention of the familys Romani ethnicity in the reporting on the Greek case has resulted in a frenzy of international media coverage. Martin Collins, who assists the Romani and Traveller community in Ireland, reports that the fair-skinned children targeted by child welfare authorities there were literally abducted from their families by representatives of the state. I hope this is not the start of some pattern of behavior in which Romani children who are not dark-skinned and dont have brown eyes are taken away from families one after another and only returned once DNA tests prove their biological connections. This is disgraceful. Its disgusting, Collins said. Journalist Jake Bowers: Roma are considered guilty until proven innocent Journalist Jake Bowers, who is himself Romani, said in an interview for the BBC that he was very surprised by the way in which the media have reported the discovery of a blonde girl living with a Romani family in Greece. Its astounding the way that this story has been reported, the shock and horror that a blond child has been found within a Romani community. Its amazing. Im blond, Im blue-eyed, Im from the Roma community. The shock and horror that there is in the media is that this child, a blond child, is being raised in a poverty-stricken, destitute environment, but there is no shock or horror about the fact that millions of Romani children across Europe live in ghettos far below the European poverty line. That receives no media coverage at all, Bowers said.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:15:48 +0000
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