By
Michael Smith (Veshengro)
“I
am sick and tired of politicians who intentionally keep Roma in
ghettos to absorb EU funds, use money for other purposes, and
eventually blame failed integration on Roma's alleged laziness and
criminal behavior ...” said Mihail Georgiev, Chair of
Board of Directors, organization "Romani Baht" (Sofia,
Bulgaria), recently. And he is
not the only one.
Now,
the question then must be as asked above: Do politicians
intentionally keep the Romani People in ghettos to absorb EU funds?
And the answer, I must say, seems to be self-explanatory and it just
seems to be thus.
However,
not only the politicians of the various countries have found the
Gypsy People, the Romani, in the ghettos a nice little earner; the
community leaders have too.
There
is a veritable Gypsy Industry out there and everyone who is someone
is feeding at the trough, while the poor Rom in the ghettos have to
eek out a living on the rubbish tips.
One
only has to look at the villas of the self-proclaimed voivodes, kings
and emperors, to see where the money is in Romaniland and then ask as
to how they came by that money.
The
money that is meant to help the poor Rom, whether in towns or
villages, in the former Iron Curtain countries – for Romani groups
from the West need not apply – never reaches those in need but
drains away in the endless sands of the politician and leader desert.
The EU has had to admit more than once when parliamentarians asked
questions that they knew how much money had gone to Roma projects but
had no idea as to what actually had been done with the money.
The
other part of the Gypsy Industry are those that make money one the
back of the poor Rom in different ways, while equally keeping them in
ignorance. Language course, and other such things, are a nice little
earner, as is the “standardized Romanes”, no doubt, but what does
it benefit the choro Rom, the poor Gypsy? Kek! Nothing.
The
poor Rom does not need standardized Romanes which is claimed to be
needed for all Gypsies to communicate with one another because he has
no time to learn it. The only ones who need this – by now – made
up – language are the academics who get the research funding and
the money for the books and courses.
It
is politicians, leaders of the community, as much as Gypsyologists,
whether Gadje or Rom, that like to keep the Rom just where they are,
namely in the ghettos and poor.
©
2011
