The history of Roma in Europe is a story of persecution and rejection and not admitting it would be absurd. Is so permeated our culture for this dynamic, which has even been embedded in the language, expressions that should cause us shame and embarrassment and that, however, we often hear without flinching. A couple of years ago I had a interesting conversation about it with a Hungarian gypsy. Was a skilled pianist who worked at the bar of a beautiful Austrian hotel on the banks of the Danube. Cultured and gentle man complained of racism that had endured in their country and in many parts of Europe and welcomed the way in Spain had managed to accommodate and integrate the Roma.
I was surprised to hear that, remembering the many times I had been disgusted rejection samples I have seen in Spain. And yet, looking at what is happening in France, I understood what he was trying to explain pianist. Will Europe accept and support a group is expelled from one of its member states only in terms of their ethnicity? I do not deny that statement is simply terrible and painful. Can Europe accept that a government manipulated and trivialized discourse of rejection of this caliber? How far will the French government, which logically receive the election returns quoted pursued in times of crisis, but at the cost of endorsing a incendiary thesis? Which Europe is this that is unable to accommodate a group with roots so deep? Have not we learned anything?
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent
,
because I wasn'ta communist, imprisoned
When social democrats, I remained silent
,
social democrat because I was not
When they came for trade unionists
not speak,
because I wasn'ta trade unionist
When they came for the Jews,
not speak,
because I wasn'ta Jew
When they came for, nobody else
I could protest.
Martin Niemoeller (1892 1984)
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