The problem is that there’s more than a small minority that’s have no respect for the settled community or the law. The greatest opponents of Traveller education are travellers themselves. They look down on any Traveller that tries to get an education or job. A lot of myths about them being bullied in schools which is utter horseshit, they do the bullying. In my lifetime I’ve witnessed multiple incidents of travellers attacking or intimidating people but none of the reverse.
As a community they seem to be more interested in bringing solicitors around to pubs hoping to get refused drink instead of educating their children.
I’ll disagree with you on a couple of points, travellers are most definitely very often the victims of what could be perceived as bullying in schools,
Because you said ‘never in my life’ I’ll talk about my own schooldays, I was in primary and secondary school with lots of travellers, they were abused, called disgusting names and often spat on and beaten up for no particular reason, in short they were looked down on, there was fuck all I could do about it as a child but I found most of them to be decent fellas,
Now I see it happening in my own school as well, we have travellers and settled travellers and they have to listen to similar stuff that the kids are bringing in from the parents, I teach a fella with a notorious surname but he’s only a child, he’s no shrinking violet but when he resorts to the fists it’s usually justified from what he’s been listening to. I’ve found his parents to be decent people in my dealings with them, he’s in school every day and they’re supportive towards anything we’d put in place.
There’s a fair bit of truth in your post but I still think that the general acceptance of what is racism in my opinion (don’t worry about semantics if the word racism) is a blight on this fine forum
I’ve been saying it for years, the greyhound tracks should be doubling up as sulkie racing tracks. The bookies would do some turnover those nights Obviously a chance the greyhound track would be destroyed but you wouldn’t even notice in most of them if it was. It’s a big thing in Sweden actually, a variant of sulkie racing
They had no evidence to arrest anyone who was intimidating Kevin Lunny and his directors. Yet once he was nearly beaten to death they found the “resources” to arrest a heap of people and take down initimidatory signs which had been up for months.
Obviously a chance the greyhound track would be destroyed but you wouldn’t even notice in most of them if it was. It’s a big thing in Sweden actually, a variant of sulkie racing