No one has a clue how to solve the “gypsy question” in Slovakia.
Nicolas Sarkozy, in his nonchalant French way, has erected an assumed social barrier between the unadjusted immigrant gypsies in France and their promised land, the endless social-support funds of a fancy Western land. Sarkozy kicked them Romas out.
Slovak municipalities cannot kick out righteous Slovak citizens. So they build walls. In three Eastern Slovak cities now stand less-then-fancy 2-meters-tall concrete walls that prohibit the free movement of the dark-skinned residents of nearby Gypsy localities.
Gypsies talk of racism, the whites point out crime, and let in on an overall fatigue and a lot of fear.
Both groups, however, agree that segregation is not the way.
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Walling in the gypsies is like caging wild birds. It is appalling that Europe has not learned from its past mistakes in racism.
This sounds familiar doesn’t it? Berlin Wall anyone? That worked out wonderfully didn’t it?